{"id":27428,"date":"2011-07-24T01:01:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T01:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/washington_post_dan_balz_debt_talks_show_breakdown_in_governing\/"},"modified":"2011-07-24T01:01:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T01:01:09","slug":"washington_post_dan_balz_debt_talks_show_breakdown_in_governing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27428","title":{"rendered":"(Washington Post) Dan Balz: Debt talks show breakdown in governing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is great disagreement in Washington over the meaning of last year\u2019s midterm elections, but it\u2019s almost certain that most Americans did not vote for the kind of paralysis that now surrounds the negotiations over the terms of raising the debt ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>Americans voted for, or got, divided government because the public doesn\u2019t fully trust either party with the reins of power. That means the only way out of this problem is through compromise, or what one administration official called \u201cbipartisanship by necessity,\u201d\u009d not by choice.<\/p>\n<p>Up until now, enough lawmakers haven\u2019t been ready to accept that in order for a deal to be struck. So the clock ticks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/dan-balz-debt-talks-show-breakdown-in-governing\/2011\/07\/23\/gIQAjMRWVI_story.html\">Read it all<\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is great disagreement in Washington over the meaning of last year\u2019s midterm elections, but it\u2019s almost certain that most Americans did not vote for the kind of paralysis that now surrounds the negotiations over the terms of raising the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27428\">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":[39,40,670,582,589,149,617,600,597,675,616,151,667,129,618,673,599,596,669,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-house-of-representatives","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-medicare","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-psychology","category-senate","category-social-security","category-stock-market","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27428","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=27428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}