{"id":183924,"date":"2012-10-04T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/10\/04\/fred-hiatt-goes-rogue\/"},"modified":"2012-10-04T20:25:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T01:25:00","slug":"fred-hiatt-goes-rogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/10\/04\/fred-hiatt-goes-rogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Hiatt Goes Rogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>Washington Post<\/i> editorial board <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/paul-ryans-budget-flim-flam\/2012\/10\/01\/b6625396-0be5-11e2-bb5e-492c0d30bff6_story.html\">called out Paul Ryan&#8217;s budget proprosal as 6 pounds of sh%$ in a 5 pound bag<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Finally, if you heard a glimmer of responsibility from Mr. Romney lately, think again: Mr. Ryan pulled back on it. Mr. Romney has been saying that middle-class families shouldn\u2019t expect their tax bills to go down very much, if at all, because their lower rates would be offset by, yes, curtailing deductions. Fox News\u2019s Neil Cavuto pressed Mr. Ryan on that score. \u201cWas he trying to brace us for some bitter news?\u201d Mr. Cavuto asked. Mr. Ryan: \u201cNo, not at all. .\u2009.\u2009. Middle income taxpayers get higher take-home pay.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mr. Wallace asked what Mr. Romney\u2019s priority would be if his numbers didn\u2019t add up and the reduction in tax rates couldn\u2019t be done without losing revenue. Mr. Ryan didn\u2019t flinch. \u201cKeeping tax rates down,\u201d he replied.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In other words, revenue-neutral would be nice. Lowering tax rates is the Republican priority, deficits be damned.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am stunned.  The <i>Washington Post<\/i> editorial board is ground zero of &#8220;very serious people&#8221; inside the Beltway wankertude, and they <b>love<\/b> people who want to sh%$ on the poor and elderly.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering whose cheerios that Ryan pissed in.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t Paul Krugman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post editorial board called out Paul Ryan&#8217;s budget proprosal as 6 pounds of sh%$ in a 5 pound bag: Finally, if you heard a glimmer of responsibility from Mr. Romney lately, think again: Mr. Ryan pulled back on it. Mr. Romney has been saying that middle-class families shouldn\u2019t expect their tax bills 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":[1038,1064,1003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-media","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183924"}],"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=183924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}