{"id":1937,"date":"2009-01-28T14:34:41","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T19:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2009-01-28T14:34:41","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T19:34:41","slug":"fair-minded-yglesias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=1937","title":{"rendered":"Fair-Minded Yglesias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Yglesias points out <a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2009\/01\/question_to_ponder.php\">the inconsistency<\/a> in Republican opponents of the stimulus bill claiming:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>we <em>can\u2019t<\/em> afford large new temporary deficit spending but <em>can<\/em> afford large new <strong>permanent<\/strong> tax cuts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then Yglesias points to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2009\/01\/a_republican_worth_listening_to.php\">a Republican worth listening to<\/a>,&#8221; Rep. John L. Mica.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the fair-mindedness that keeps me reading Yglesias&#8217;s stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Yglesias points out the inconsistency in Republican opponents of the stimulus bill claiming: we can\u2019t afford large new temporary deficit spending but can afford large new permanent tax cuts. And then Yglesias points to &#8220;a Republican worth listening to,&#8221; Rep. John L. Mica. It&#8217;s the fair-mindedness that keeps me reading Yglesias&#8217;s stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[143,27,544,1032,4,458],"tags":[1076,1290,782,1291],"class_list":["post-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-domestic-issues","category-economics","category-financial-crisis-economics","category-politics","category-the-opinionsphere","tag-infrastructure","tag-john-l-mica","tag-matt-yglesias","tag-stimulus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-vf","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}