{"id":8163,"date":"2013-10-16T10:48:19","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T14:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=8163"},"modified":"2013-10-16T10:48:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T14:48:19","slug":"wednesday-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2013\/10\/16\/wednesday-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All indications are that today the Senate will pass a bill re-opening the government and raising the debt ceiling (unless Ted Cruz or some other Republican asshole decides to put a 30-hour hold on it), and then presumably John Boehner will allow it to come up for a vote in the House and pass with almost all Democratic votes. <\/p>\n<p>We shall see, of course, but if it actually happens and there&#8217;s nothing too terribly stupid in the bill, I would like Democrats (especially the one in the White House) to take a step back and reflect on what happens when you don&#8217;t cave in to these terrorist thugs.  Then I&#8217;d like them to think about what might have been, had they stood up to these bullies from Day One.  <\/p>\n<p>Of course, even if all this goes through the way we hope it will, I hope everybody&#8217;s prepared for whatever fresh hell these assholes are probably already preparing for after the first of next year.  &#8216;Cuz you know damn well, they&#8217;re not gonna learn a lesson from this (anymore than they did from the last election), and we&#8217;re gonna see all this nonsense again in a few short months.<\/p>\n<p>Still, this is a start, at least.  Or, hopefully it&#8217;s a start.  I wouldn&#8217;t put anything past these teabagger types.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All indications are that today the Senate will pass a bill re-opening the government and raising the debt ceiling (unless Ted Cruz or some other Republican asshole decides to put a 30-hour hold on it), and then presumably John Boehner will allow it to come up for a vote in the House and pass with [&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-8163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8163","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=8163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8164,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8163\/revisions\/8164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}