{"id":197683,"date":"2008-01-17T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/17\/bush-to-hold-stimulus-package-hostage\/"},"modified":"2008-01-17T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T22:59:00","slug":"bush-to-hold-stimulus-package-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/17\/bush-to-hold-stimulus-package-hostage\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush to Hold Stimulus Package Hostage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/17\/us\/17bush.html?ex=1358312400&amp;en=3c44c00f80b73609&amp;ei=5088&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">the article about the Bush Administration strategies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The stimulus is needed now, but veto anything that does not extend Bush&#8217;s disastrous tax cuts, which would otherwise end in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is that sticking with appallingly bad tax policies in order to create a relatively modest stimulus package is a bad idea both in terms of the well being of the republic, and in terms of politics, and the Democrats should be willing to <b>walk away from the table<\/b> if this is a condition.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, they will drop the soap instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the article about the Bush Administration strategies. The stimulus is needed now, but veto anything that does not extend Bush&#8217;s disastrous tax cuts, which would otherwise end in 2011. The fact is that sticking with appallingly bad tax policies in order to create a relatively modest stimulus package is a bad idea both in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,978,983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-politics","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197683"}],"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=197683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}