{"id":183825,"date":"2012-11-07T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T02:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/11\/07\/reid-just-threw-a-brush-back-pitch-at-barack-obama\/"},"modified":"2012-11-07T21:19:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-08T02:19:00","slug":"reid-just-threw-a-brush-back-pitch-at-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/11\/07\/reid-just-threw-a-brush-back-pitch-at-barack-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Reid Just Threw a Brush Back Pitch at Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To which I say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1112\/83514.html\">good for him<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Nevertheless, getting to a deal won\u2019t be easy \u2014 especially if Democrats refuse to entertain cuts on entitlements. Speaking to reporters after the news conference, Reid wouldn\u2019t say whether Democrats would be open to cutting Medicare benefits, but he said that Social Security wouldn\u2019t be touched.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not surprised that he said this.<\/p>\n<p>He picked up seats while defending twice as many seats as Republicans, and the incoming Senators are more liberal than their predecessors, and the only &#8220;Democrat&#8221; who might have been <b>eager<\/b> to take point on this, Bob Kerrey, lost his race for Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To which I say good for him: Nevertheless, getting to a deal won\u2019t be easy \u2014 especially if Democrats refuse to entertain cuts on entitlements. Speaking to reporters after the news conference, Reid wouldn\u2019t say whether Democrats would be open to cutting Medicare benefits, but he said that Social Security wouldn\u2019t be touched. I&#8217;m not &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,1020,1086],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-legislation","category-social-safety-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183825"}],"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=183825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}