{"id":198112,"date":"2007-12-12T06:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/12\/hat-tip-to-david-obey-for-having-some-backbone\/"},"modified":"2007-12-12T06:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T11:02:00","slug":"hat-tip-to-david-obey-for-having-some-backbone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/12\/hat-tip-to-david-obey-for-having-some-backbone\/","title":{"rendered":"Hat Tip to David Obey, for Having Some Backbone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obey, the House Appropriations Committee Chairman, has been working for some time on compromise spending legislation with the Congressional Republicans and the White House,  and now that Bush has threatened a veto of anything more than what he submitted (Obey was trying to split the difference),  <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/news\/2007\/12\/top_democrat_threatens_spendin.php\">he has terminated negotiations, and told the White House and Republicans that he will balance the budget by wacking <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Republican priorities<\/span><\/span> and earmark pork<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Good for him.  If Bush and His Evil Minions<sup>&#8482;<\/sup> don&#8217;t want to negotiate in good faith, hit back hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obey, the House Appropriations Committee Chairman, has been working for some time on compromise spending legislation with the Congressional Republicans and the White House, and now that Bush has threatened a veto of anything more than what he submitted (Obey was trying to split the difference), he has terminated negotiations, and told the White House &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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198112"}],"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=198112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}