{"id":183746,"date":"2012-12-04T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/12\/04\/theyve-lost-the-fing-heritage-foundation\/"},"modified":"2012-12-04T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T02:43:00","slug":"theyve-lost-the-fing-heritage-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/12\/04\/theyve-lost-the-fing-heritage-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;ve Lost the F%$#ing Heritage Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I mentioned that the <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2012\/12\/obama-has-apparently-switched-to-high.html\">Republican budget proposals were fact free<\/a>, well, it appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2012\/12\/03\/fiscal-cliff-house-republican-proposal-abandons-core-principles-gains-little\/\">people at the right wing <b><span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Heritage Foundation<\/span><\/b><\/a> agree with me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The House Republican leadership has offered a substantive counteroffer to President Obama\u2019s frivolous fiscal cliff proposal of last week. At first blush, it appears little more than categorical, pre-emptive capitulation.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">To be fair, the details of the Republican proposal are extraordinarily vague. Nor is much clarity or comfort gained from the three-page accompanying letter sent to the President and signed by Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), and three other senior members of the House Republican leadership.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Much can and likely will come out in the days ahead clarifying what a few figures and labels on a single sheet of paper mean. One can only hope the additional clarity substantially improves the picture. However, it is very difficult to be hopeful.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s gonna leave a mark.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, I think that the Heritage foundation is full of crap.<\/p>\n<p>Even amongst the right wing think tanks, it&#8217;s hacktacular.<\/p>\n<p>Full disclosure, a friend of mine was <b>fired<\/b> by the Heritage Foundation because she got cancer, so I am not favorably inclined toward these guys.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/entry\/heritage-experts-call-gop-counter-offer-dud\">Talking Points Memo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I mentioned that the Republican budget proposals were fact free, well, it appears that people at the right wing Heritage Foundation agree with me: The House Republican leadership has offered a substantive counteroffer to President Obama\u2019s frivolous fiscal cliff proposal of last week. At first blush, it appears little more than categorical, pre-emptive capitulation.To &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,1020,978,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-legislation","category-politics","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}