{"id":22959,"date":"2011-04-14T10:02:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T14:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22959"},"modified":"2011-04-14T10:02:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T14:02:26","slug":"the-progressive-caucus-budget-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22959","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Progressive&#8221; Caucus budget plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The intrepid <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/if-progressives-ran-the-world\/2011\/04\/13\/AFD7YtYD_story.html?hpid=z4\">Dana Milbank<\/a> braved yesterday&#8217;s rain storm and blather tsunami to bring the highlights of the Congressional Progressive Caucus budget scheme which is neither progressive nor a budget;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to call forth the sun!\u201d Rep. Keith Ellison, the Minnesota Democrat who is co-chair of the caucus, proclaimed theatrically. His colleagues huddled under umbrellas and the wind knocked their promotional poster from its easel.<\/p>\n<p>Ellison and the progressives probably would have a better chance of influencing the weather than they would passing their budget, which they are floating as an alternative to the House Republican bid and President Obama\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n<p>Among the highlights: A $4 trillion tax increase over 10 years. An increase in the top tax rate to 49 percent. A $2.3 trillion cut in defense spending \u2013 and an increase in domestic spending. Oh, and they would revive the \u201cpublic option\u201d to offer government-run health care.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, the only thing the liberals want to cut is defense, increasing taxes and domestic spending. That&#8217;s the best their pot-addled brains could concoct &#8211; class warfare tax hikes and increased spending to buy votes. I wonder where the phrase &#8220;tax and spend liberals&#8221; comes from?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The intrepid Dana Milbank braved yesterday&#8217;s rain storm and blather tsunami to bring the highlights of &hellip; <a title=\"The &#8220;Progressive&#8221; Caucus budget plan\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22959\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The &#8220;Progressive&#8221; Caucus budget plan<\/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":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberals-suck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22959","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=22959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}