{"id":30895,"date":"2012-02-17T02:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T02:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cs_monitor_the_strange_politics_behind_a_budgetless_america\/"},"modified":"2012-02-17T02:00:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T02:00:57","slug":"cs_monitor_the_strange_politics_behind_a_budgetless_america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30895","title":{"rendered":"(CS Monitor)  Gail Chaddock&#8211;The Strange politics behind a budgetless America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking to avoid a politically toxic vote, Congress has failed to pass a federal budget for three years. This year&#8217;s new twist? Congress might not even try.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, President Obama presented his proposed budget for fiscal year 2013. It&#8217;s going nowhere on Capitol Hill, legislators and political analysts agree. What&#8217;s more, Senate Democratic leaders show no intention of presenting their own budget proposals \u201d\u201c or taking up any lobbed over from House Republicans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Politics\/2012\/0214\/No-budget-No-problem!-The-strange-politics-behind-a-budgetless-America\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking to avoid a politically toxic vote, Congress has failed to pass a federal budget for three years. This year&#8217;s new twist? Congress might not even try. On Monday, President Obama presented his proposed budget for fiscal year 2013. It&#8217;s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30895\">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":[39,40,670,149,133,617,616,151,667,618,669,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-economy","category-history","category-house-of-representatives","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-senate","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30895","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=30895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}