{"id":186354,"date":"2014-02-20T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/02\/20\/liberals-win-one-vs-barack-obama\/"},"modified":"2014-02-20T20:09:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T01:09:00","slug":"liberals-win-one-vs-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/02\/20\/liberals-win-one-vs-barack-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals Win One vs. Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2014\/02\/20\/breaking-white-house-budget-to-boost-spending-by-56-billion-drop-boehner-grand-bargain\">The \u201cGrand Bargain\u201d Is Officially Off the Table by Ed Kilgore | Political Animal | The Washington Monthly<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The White House budget to be released early next month will propose $56 billion in new spending on domestic and defense priorities and drop a proposal that was included in last year&#8217;s budget as a way to attract Republican support &#8212; a plan that would have included less generous payouts of Social Security benefits.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The budget would aim to reduce the emphasis on austerity that has been the preoccupation of American politics for the past four years and also highlights top Democratic priorities in a year when Democrats hope to save their majority in the Senate.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">A White House official said President Obama decided to release a budget that fully represents his &#8220;vision,&#8221; rather than to continue to pursue a fiscal agreement, because Republicans have refused to engage in good-faith negotiations over the nation&#8217;s top priorities. Obama is planning to pay for fresh spending by closing tax breaks that disproportionately benefit the wealthy.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Make no mistake though, Obama and His Evil Minions<sup>\u2122<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/02\/20\/gops_social_security_disaster_how_conservatives_lost_their_chance_to_cut_benefits\/\"><b>REALLY<\/b> wanted to do this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026One of the White House\u2019s most poorly kept secrets is that many of Obama\u2019s economic advisers support Chained CPI on the merits\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because hurting the poors is a good thing, because \u2026\u2026\u2026 I can haz bipartisanship!<\/p>\n<p>When the f%$# is the Democratic party going to nominate a Democrat for President?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cGrand Bargain\u201d Is Officially Off the Table by Ed Kilgore | Political Animal | The Washington Monthly: The White House budget to be released early next month will propose $56 billion in new spending on domestic and defense priorities and drop a proposal that was included in last year&#8217;s budget as a way 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":[1142,1038,1020,978,1086],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-budget","category-legislation","category-politics","category-social-safety-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186354"}],"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=186354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}