{"id":543,"date":"2013-10-04T21:51:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T04:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lionspeak.asinglelion.com\/?p=543"},"modified":"2013-10-04T21:51:16","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T04:51:16","slug":"whos-afraid-of-the-big-government-shutdown-not-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"Who\u2019s Afraid of the Big Government Shutdown Not I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big news The Republican had done their job according to the US Constitution, they passed a budget in the House, but \u00a0decided to exercise their right not to fund Obamacare, all other areas of were funded.\u00a0 Reid and Obama decide to go all or nothing strategy and chose to allow the government to shut down. The shutdown is like a dysfunctional family where the wife bans buying of groceries because the husband will not allow her to buy a bottle of perfume.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is not a new strategy: The liberal love to spread the pain when they do not get their way. They did the thing in 1995 and when a local school \u00a0levy fails the cut \u00a0visible item like Music education and \u00a0sports rather than\u00a0 bloated administration positions. Reid and Obama \u00a0could had just called passage of the budget and made Obamacare funding an issue next year, but no they had to act like jerks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big news The Republican had done their job according to the US Constitution, they passed a budget in the House, but \u00a0decided to exercise their right not to fund Obamacare, all other areas of were funded.\u00a0 Reid and Obama &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/?p=543\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[243,95,242],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","tag-budget","tag-obamacare","tag-shutdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asinglelion.com\/lionspeak\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}