{"id":22854,"date":"2011-04-07T08:25:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T12:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22854"},"modified":"2011-04-07T09:46:07","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T13:46:07","slug":"wapo-obama-says-shutdown-would-be-%e2%80%98inexcusable%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22854","title":{"rendered":"WaPo; Obama says shutdown would be \u2018inexcusable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is what the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/hill-negotiators-struggle-to-reach-budget-deal-to-avert-shutdown\/2011\/04\/06\/AFh8KjpC_story.html?hpid=z1\">Washington Post<\/a> runs as a headline;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Obama-shutdown-WaPo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22855\" title=\"Obama shutdown WaPo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Obama-shutdown-WaPo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Obama-shutdown-WaPo.jpg 609w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Obama-shutdown-WaPo-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As if he has nothing to do with impending shutdown;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt would be inexcusable, given the relatively narrow differences when it comes to numbers between the two parties, that we can\u2019t get this done,\u201d Obama said. \u201cThere\u2019s no reason why we should have a government shutdown unless we\u2019ve made a decision that politics is more important.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, of course Democrats have decided that politics is most important &#8211; they&#8217;re trying to hold on to their base. We can all agree that government spending is out of control, so the largest, most prolonged cuts make the most sense. So why are the Democrats, including the President, married to the smallest, least ineffectual cuts?<\/p>\n<p>The House has passed a budget, the Senate and the President are standing in the way of the first budget in three years. So who is really being &#8220;inexcusable&#8221; here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what the Washington Post runs as a headline; As if he has nothing to &hellip; <a title=\"WaPo; Obama says shutdown would be \u2018inexcusable\u2019\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22854\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WaPo; Obama says shutdown would be \u2018inexcusable\u2019<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-congress-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}