{"id":58379,"date":"2025-02-11T09:22:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T14:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=58379"},"modified":"2025-02-11T09:22:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T14:22:17","slug":"quotes-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=58379","title":{"rendered":"Quotes Of The Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can always depend on Senator Kennedy of Louisiana to provide some good quotes. On January 29, <a href=\"https:\/\/mrctv.org\/blog\/craig-bannister\/sen-john-kennedy-warns-if-you-dont-believe-then-you-shouldnt-be-driving?fbclid=IwY2xjawIXMF9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHUNfFxWP15IE1Unvc4oNQDfBgIdOxNV8bCeJjV50dcjbZ1F9LmGWL63PPQ_aem_EjVM1AfHuJrmqDJsWcdLhA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Media Research Center<\/a> posted a few:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Kennedy warned that the U.S. is \u201cheaded for a multiple-vehicle pileup\u201d caused by the mutually essential needs to extend the tax cuts enacted during President Donald Trump\u2019s first term while also cutting federal government spending.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>If the Trump tax cuts aren\u2019t extended, taxes will go up by $4.3 trillion, with 60% of the increase hitting middle class and lower income Americans, Kennedy cautioned.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Meanwhile, the U.S. national debt has topped $36 trillion, or $102,000 per citizen, the senator noted, stressing the need to spur economic growth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cI don\u2019t want to blame it all on President Biden, but, if the shoe fits, wear it, Cinderella,\u201d Kennedy said, regarding the nation\u2019s unprecedented debt fueled by wanton spending.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cSo, I hope all the folks today will go home and take off their Batman t-shirts, wash them [because they\u2019re] probably a little sweaty.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cI hope everybody will go home &#8211; those who drink, have a cocktail &#8211; take their meds and put this all in perspective. That&#8217;s what that <a href=\"https:\/\/erik.osu.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2025\/01\/Temporary%20Pause%20of%20Agency%20Grant%2C%20Loan%2C%20and%20Other%20Federal%20Assisitance%20Programs.pdf\">OMB memorandum<\/a> (on excessive spending) was all about.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Kennedy then closed with his vehicular warning:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cIf you don&#8217;t believe we&#8217;re going to have to cut spending substantially, then you shouldn&#8217;t be driving.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He is right. If we don&#8217;t cut spending, we will totally tank our economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can always depend on Senator Kennedy of Louisiana to provide some good quotes. On January 29, The Media Research Center posted a few: Kennedy warned that the U.S. is \u201cheaded for a multiple-vehicle pileup\u201d caused by the mutually essential &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=58379\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[172,13372,17703,16950,17317],"class_list":["post-58379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-government-spending","tag-president-biden","tag-senator-kennedy-of-louisiana","tag-the-media-research-center","tag-trump-tax-cuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58379","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58389,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58379\/revisions\/58389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}