{"id":27346,"date":"2011-07-19T15:48:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T15:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ross_douthat_on_the_budget_debate-the_republicans_misstep\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T15:48:52","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T15:48:52","slug":"ross_douthat_on_the_budget_debate-the_republicans_misstep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27346","title":{"rendered":"Ross Douthat on the Budget Debate&#8211;The Republican&#39;s Misstep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not that Republicans needed to tug their forelock and go along with whatever grand bargain the White House whipped up. But to win the endgame, they needed something they were willing to concede, something they could tout in public as an example of meeting the Democrats partway.<\/p>\n<p>Their inability to make even symbolic concessions has turned a winning hand into a losing one. A majority of Americans want to close the deficit primarily with spending cuts \u201d\u201d which is to say, they\u2019re primed to side with conservatives in the debt-ceiling debate. But in trying to turn that \u201cprimarily\u201d\u009d into a \u201ccompletely,\u201d\u009d the right has squandered this advantage&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/18\/opinion\/18douthat.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not that Republicans needed to tug their forelock and go along with whatever grand bargain the White House whipped up. But to win the endgame, they needed something they were willing to concede, something they could tout in public<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27346\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,670,582,589,149,617,675,616,151,667,618,673,587,596,669,584,672],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-house-of-representatives","category-medicare","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate","category-social-security","category-taxes","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government","category-the-united-states-currency-dollar-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}