{"id":616,"date":"2009-03-13T20:03:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T20:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=616"},"modified":"2009-03-13T20:03:35","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T20:03:35","slug":"a_missed_opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=616","title":{"rendered":"A Missed Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the economy struggles, don&#8217;t expect the federal budget to shrink at all.&nbsp; According to <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/03\/11\/congress-gives-federal-government-a-big-raise-in-economic-crisis\/\">Hot Air<\/a>, the budget passed this week represents massive increases for a lot of federal agencies who were kept at moderate growth rates during the Bush administration.&nbsp; For example, the WIC program (a supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children) grows to $1.2 billion, a 21 percent jump from the $5.7 billion appropriated last year.&nbsp; Had the bill been&nbsp;filibustered, forcing changes,&nbsp;Nancy Pelosi pledged to kill the bill entirely, returning spending to 2008 levels.&nbsp; What a great idea!&nbsp; The Republicans who voted against filibuster were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lamar Alexander\n<li>Kit Bond\n<li>Thad Cochran\n<li>Lisa Murkowski\n<li>Richard Shelby\n<li>Olympia Snowe\n<li>Arlen Specter\n<li>Roger Wicker <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s time these people found new jobs.&nbsp; Hopefully the Republican National Committee will find primary challengers for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the economy struggles, don&#8217;t expect the federal budget to shrink at all.&nbsp; According to Hot Air, the budget passed this week represents massive increases for a lot of federal agencies who were kept at moderate growth rates during the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=616\">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-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","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=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}