{"id":188548,"date":"2010-09-06T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/06\/obama-calls-for-weak-tea-and-cedes-ground-to-the-right-wing\/"},"modified":"2010-09-06T16:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T21:55:00","slug":"obama-calls-for-weak-tea-and-cedes-ground-to-the-right-wing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/09\/06\/obama-calls-for-weak-tea-and-cedes-ground-to-the-right-wing\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Calls for Weak Tea, and Cedes Ground to the Right Wing"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>So now, instead of trying for something that works to reduce unemployment, Obama is calling for a modest public works program, $50 Billion over 6 years<\/a>, significantly less than what we are flushing down the toilet on the unnecessary F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.*<\/sup><\/p>\n

What’s more, once again<\/span>, he throws a bargaining chip to the Republicans, who have shown their unwillingness to negotiate in good faith, by also proposing that the R&D tax credit be extended and made permanent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Once again, when trying to put forward even the most modest proposal, he kneecaps himself by taking what could have been used as a lever to derive support, and handing it to his enemies so that they can use it as a cudgel against him.<\/p>\n

Week tea, constructed to make it even weaker, once again.<\/p>\n

*<\/sup>This is not meant to be a commentary on the capabilities of the F-35, simply a statement that these capabilities are simply not necessary in current of foreseeable future conflicts, and the same goes for the F-22, so please don’t make this a Raptor\/Lightning II pissing contest.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So now, instead of trying for something that works to reduce unemployment, Obama is calling for a modest public works program, $50 Billion over 6 years, significantly less than what we are flushing down the toilet on the unnecessary F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.* What’s more, once again, he throws a bargaining chip to the Republicans, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,973,975,983,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-economy","category-employment","category-taxes","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188548"}],"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=188548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}