{"id":7683,"date":"2013-01-07T10:57:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T15:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=7683"},"modified":"2013-01-07T10:57:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T15:57:14","slug":"monday-106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2013\/01\/07\/monday-106\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, from what I&#8217;m reading, it appears that Republicans are willing to shut down the government over the debt ceiling nonsense unless Democrats come up with massive cuts to Social Security and Medicare\/Medicaid.  Obama says he is unwilling to include cuts as part of raising the ceiling, so we appear to be at a standstill. I&#8217;m sure Republicans are worried, because Obama never backs down on this kind of stuff, and he has tons of leverage on them, thanks to the Fiscal Cli&#8230;.  Oh, yeah, forgot about that.  Anyhow, I&#8217;m sure both sides will get cracking and this will all be solved long before the Feds have to default on their obligations in March.  Because when I think if our government (especially the House of Representatives), the one word that comes to mind for me is &#8220;proactive.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>I must say, I was doing pretty well with the whole going back to work thing this morning.  Right up until I walked in the front door of the building, at which point I was engulfed in a dark cloud of depression.  I&#8217;ll be most happy to see this day end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, from what I&#8217;m reading, it appears that Republicans are willing to shut down the government over the debt ceiling nonsense unless Democrats come up with massive cuts to Social Security and Medicare\/Medicaid. Obama says he is unwilling to include cuts as part of raising the ceiling, so we appear to be at a standstill. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7684,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7683\/revisions\/7684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}