{"id":2857,"date":"2011-04-07T16:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T16:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2011-04-07T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T16:25:00","slug":"remembering_how_we_got_here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2857","title":{"rendered":"Remembering How We Got Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/apr\/7\/senate-leader-reid-government-headed-shutdown\/?page=all#pagebreak\">Washington Post<\/a>&nbsp;reported today that the Republicans in the House had passed a one-week continuing resolution to keep the government running.&nbsp; The President has vowed to veto that legislation if it ever reaches his desk.&nbsp; So how did we get here?<\/p>\n<p>Congress is required by law to pass a budget by the end of October.&nbsp; Last year, the Democratic Congress chose not to pass a budget&#8211;it was an election year and they were afraid of the consequences of taking a stand on anything.&nbsp; That is the reason we are having this discussion now instead of last fall.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>It looks as if the President believes that a government shutdown will help him politically.&nbsp; That may be a result of some focus group polling or that just may be a calculation based on events the last time the government was shut down.&nbsp; I am not sure who wins in this mess.&nbsp; The 24-hour news cycle may play a role in how this turns out&#8211;any pictures of frustrated tourists trying to get into a national park can be countered by a reminder of how we got here.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever happens next, we need to keep in mind that we are here because the Democrats in Congress and the President did not do their jobs last fall.&nbsp; That fact should not get lost in the shuffle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post&nbsp;reported today that the Republicans in the House had passed a one-week continuing resolution to keep the government running.&nbsp; The President has vowed to veto that legislation if it ever reaches his desk.&nbsp; So how did we get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2857\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}