{"id":309,"date":"2008-11-23T16:02:44","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T16:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=309"},"modified":"2008-11-23T16:02:44","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T16:02:44","slug":"governing_vs_campaigning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"Governing vs Campaigning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has probably been more than one rude awakening for Barack Obama since he was elected.&nbsp; I&#8217;m sure the first security briefing on the presidential level caused a few sleepless nights and a few second thoughts on previous ideas.&nbsp; I&#8217;m also sure that the ever changing economic situation has caused him to consider options that he may not have wanted to consider previously.&nbsp; For instance, <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2008\/11\/23\/expiration-date-watch-repealing-the-bush-tax-cuts\/\">Hot Air<\/a>&nbsp;is reporting that Barack Obama is considering a postponement of his promised rollback of the Bush tax cuts.&nbsp; This is actually very good new&#8211;not because of the tax cuts themselves (although they need to be made permanent), but because it seems to be an indication that he has realized that raising taxes in a struggling economy further hampers the growth of that economy.&nbsp; Naive as it may be, I am taking this as an indication that Barack Obama wants to be a successful President, and if that means changing some of his ideas, he may be willing to do it.&nbsp; I see this as very hopeful, and I&#8217;m praying that I won&#8217;t have to eat those words!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has probably been more than one rude awakening for Barack Obama since he was elected.&nbsp; I&#8217;m sure the first security briefing on the presidential level caused a few sleepless nights and a few second thoughts on previous ideas.&nbsp; I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=309\">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-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","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=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}