{"id":187546,"date":"2011-05-24T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/05\/24\/another-shanda-before-the-goyim\/"},"modified":"2011-05-24T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T23:01:00","slug":"another-shanda-before-the-goyim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/05\/24\/another-shanda-before-the-goyim\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Shanda Before the Goyim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/a.imageshack.us\/img443\/9375\/doublefacepalm9496114.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"390\" \/>This time, it&#8217;s House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who is <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/05\/24\/cantor-disaster-relief\/\">insisting that any aid that any aid going to the tornado ravaged town of Joplin Missouri be offset by budget cuts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Monday that if Congress passes an emergency spending bill to help Missouri\u2019s tornado victims, the extra money will have to be cut from somewhere else.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cIf there is support for a supplemental, it would be accompanied by support for having pay-fors to that supplemental,\u201d Mr. Cantor, Virginia Republican, told reporters at the Capitol. The term \u201cpay-fors\u201d is used by lawmakers to signal cuts or tax increases used to pay for new spending.<\/span> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note that this sort of callous disregard for this sort of disaster not only puts him on the wrong side of all decent people, it puts him on the wrong side of <b>Tom &#8220;The Hammer&#8221; Delay<\/b>, who supported borrowing to fund hurricane Katrina relief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time, it&#8217;s House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who is insisting that any aid that any aid going to the tornado ravaged town of Joplin Missouri be offset by budget cuts: Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Monday that if Congress passes an emergency spending bill to help Missouri\u2019s tornado victims, the extra money will have &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,969,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-evil","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187546"}],"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=187546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}