{"id":32912,"date":"2012-06-06T17:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T17:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wisconsin_results_last_night_ii_steven_malanga_argues_walker_represents_fis\/"},"modified":"2012-06-06T17:00:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T17:00:38","slug":"wisconsin_results_last_night_ii_steven_malanga_argues_walker_represents_fis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32912","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Results Last Night (II): Steven Malanga Argues Walker represents Fiscal Realism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone seems to have an opinion on what the vote in Wisconsin means for national politics.<\/p>\n<p>But beyond the issue of whether Scott Walker&#8217;s survival puts Wisconsin in play in November, his victory represents an example of the way politicians in our most pressed states are sorting themselves as they confront this long fiscal downturn. Increasingly they fall into two camps: those willing to undertake tough reforms in the face of severe fiscal restraints that don&#8217;t appear likely to improve anytime soon, and those who continue to put off the difficult decisions even as their states&#8217; balance sheets deteriorate and investors grow wary of their budget instability.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearmarkets.com\/articles\/2012\/06\/06\/governor_walker_refused_to_hide_from_fiscal_reality_99706.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone seems to have an opinion on what the vote in Wisconsin means for national politics. But beyond the issue of whether Scott Walker&#8217;s survival puts Wisconsin in play in November, his victory represents an example of the way politicians<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32912\">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":[40,149,617,600,597,616,151,618,619,587,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-house-of-representatives","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general","category-senate","category-state-government","category-taxes","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32912","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=32912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}