{"id":4964,"date":"2010-03-30T12:41:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T17:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=4964"},"modified":"2010-03-30T13:05:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T18:05:53","slug":"senator-lindsey-graham-fiscal-chickenhawk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=4964","title":{"rendered":"Senator Lindsey Graham: Fiscal Chickenhawk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[digg-reddit-me]<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YZhDbGoDj28&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>As I wrote earlier, Republicans are clearly <a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/?p=4551\">rooting for a fiscal catastrophe<\/a>. How else would <a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2010\/03\/the-ryan-tax-plan-higher-taxes-for-90-of-americans-less-revenue-for-the-government.php\">a plan like Rep. Paul Ryan&#8217;s<\/a> which increases taxes on 90% of Americans, cuts services for most Americans (while excluding <a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/?p=4322\">the elderly and military<\/a>, who happen to be 2 of the main Republican interests groups and beneficiaries of the status quo), and cuts taxes on the richest (who happen to be <a href=\"http:\/\/2parse.com\/\/?p=4322\">the 3rd main Republican interest group<\/a>) have a chance of getting through?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear the Graham himself &#8211; or any particular Republican &#8211; buys into this plan. But it is <a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/archives\/2010\/03\/the-ryan-tax-plan-higher-taxes-for-90-of-americans-less-revenue-for-the-government.php\">the clear result of the Republican strategy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What is clear is that Graham &#8211; for all his talk of fiscal responsibility &#8211; proposes amending Obama&#8217;s health care plan to take out every revenue-generator, leaving a massive hole in the deficit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[digg-reddit-me] As I wrote earlier, Republicans are clearly rooting for a fiscal catastrophe. How else would a plan like Rep. Paul Ryan&#8217;s which increases taxes on 90% of Americans, cuts services for most Americans (while excluding the elderly and military, who happen to be 2 of the main Republican interests groups and beneficiaries of the [&hellip;]<\/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":[47,27,1023,4,458,44],"tags":[2178,2690,2177],"class_list":["post-4964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criticism","category-domestic-issues","category-health-care-domestic-issues","category-politics","category-the-opinionsphere","category-videos","tag-deficit-politics","tag-fiscal-chickenhawk","tag-lindsey-graham"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-1i4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964","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=4964"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4977,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions\/4977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}