{"id":210,"date":"2003-09-13T20:48:25","date_gmt":"2003-09-13T20:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=210"},"modified":"2003-09-13T20:48:25","modified_gmt":"2003-09-13T20:48:25","slug":"put_it_on_our_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"Put It On Our Tab"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is enlightening and more than a little scary:
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\nThe old claim that Republicans are the party of fiscal restraint is simply laughable. It’s more accurate to say that they have a strong aversion to spending on anything that isn’t connected to the War on Terrorism (however tenuous the link may be). I wonder if, when Bush and his inner circle were gleefully ramming their tax cuts through Congress, did they even contemplate that lowering revenues might not be a good idea just before taking on the major responsibilities of rebuilding a nation? Oh, but that must have been back when our president was still opposed the whole nation-building concept thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is enlightening and more than a little scary: The old claim that Republicans are the party of fiscal restraint is simply laughable. It’s more accurate to say that they have a strong aversion to spending on anything that isn’t connected to the War on Terrorism (however tenuous the link may be). I wonder if, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-3o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}