{"id":3895,"date":"2013-05-01T19:50:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T00:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3895"},"modified":"2013-05-01T19:50:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T00:50:02","slug":"throwing-in-the-towel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3895","title":{"rendered":"Throwing In The Towel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ezra Klein rightly castigates Democrats for completely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2013\/04\/26\/the-democrats-have-lost-on-sequestration\/\">surrendering to Republicans on the sequestration<\/a>. Klein points out that by voting last week vote to exempt the FAA from across-the-board budgets cuts, Democrats threw away their one bargaining chip that might have enabled them to replace the sequestration with something more sensible. But because Dems couldn&#8217;t stomach the thought of taking a little flak for flight delays, other people who don&#8217;t have frequent flyer cards will continue to suffer. Other people who may have never stepped foot in an airport will continue to have their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/04\/30\/180100067\/sequester-puts-some-needing-housing-aid-back-to-square-one\">housing vouchers revoked<\/a>. Other people who don&#8217;t have the money for a plane ticket will continue to have their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2013\/04\/06\/176401906\/long-term-unemployed-prepare-for-sequester-pinch\">unemployment benefits cut<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But our elected officials will move heaven and earth for lobbyists and corporate executives who bitch about being stuck on the tarmac for an hour.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Obama and Democrats are playing some long game that I don&#8217;t have the political acumen to understand. Perhaps they really aren&#8217;t the cowards they seem to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ezra Klein rightly castigates Democrats for completely surrendering to Republicans on the sequestration. Klein points out that by voting last week vote to exempt the FAA from across-the-board budgets cuts, Democrats threw away their one bargaining chip that might have enabled them to replace the sequestration with something more sensible. But because Dems couldn&#8217;t stomach <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=3895' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-18-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-10P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895","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=3895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3896,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions\/3896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}