{"id":4957,"date":"2009-06-20T10:50:06","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T15:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4957"},"modified":"2009-06-20T10:52:11","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T15:52:11","slug":"true-true-true-andtrue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4957","title":{"rendered":"True, True, True and&#8230;.True."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest challenges ahead for the GOP is to reclaim the Fiscal Conservative ribbon from&#8230;well actually nobody has it now&#8230;which is probably why we are enjoying a hiatus from the trappings of low unemployment, prosperity and economic growth right now.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/unitedstates\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13812470\">Paying for what you spend<\/a> is basic common sense. Perhaps that\u2019s why, here in  Washington, it\u2019s been so elusive\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>True.<\/p>\n<p>Who said that? Wait for it&#8230;of course&#8230;Barack Obama; filling the vacuum left by Republicans with more wholesome teleprompter goodness. The most liberal former Senator in recent history defines audacity once again.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Republicans marvel at his skill in stealing their clothes. Democrats retort  that, under George Bush, Republicans left their clothes unguarded while they  cavorted in a hot tub of borrowed cash. Sure, they talked about fiscal  responsibility. But instead of choosing between tax cuts, wars and social  spending, they chose all three\u2014and left the bill for future generations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>True (although picturing Dick Cheney in a hot tub is a wee bit unsettling).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Whenever Republicans accuse Mr Obama of fiscal profligacy, Democrats have three  easy answers. The first is to accuse them of hypocrisy\u2014why did they not speak up  when Mr Bush was splurging red ink?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>True (although a few of us did speak up).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Americans stopped trusting Republicans with their money in part because some  were caught trousering bribes or peddling influence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and True&#8230;although Republicans have no monopoly here. Sadly, the public&#8217;s attention has been drawn from\u00a0 Republicans&#8230;because there are so few of them in power right now.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Republicans think they see an opening. Although Mr Obama is still very popular,  Americans have doubts about his fiscal stewardship. In a recent Gallup poll, 51%  disapproved of his handling of federal spending. Since this is the only area  where most people disapprove of Mr Obama, Republicans are enthusiastically  prodding it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But will middle America believe them <em>this<\/em> time?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest challenges ahead for the GOP is to reclaim the Fiscal Conservative ribbon from&#8230;well actually nobody has it now&#8230;which is probably why we are enjoying a hiatus from the trappings of low unemployment, prosperity and economic growth right now. \u201cPaying for what you spend is basic common sense. Perhaps that\u2019s why, here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,64,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pork-patrol","category-president-obama","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}