{"id":229739,"date":"2010-01-25T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-democrats-circular-firing-squad-set-to-go-into-hyper-mode-after-news-of-obamas-spending-freeze-2010-1"},"modified":"2010-01-25T20:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T01:49:00","slug":"the-democrats-circular-firing-squad-set-to-go-into-hyper-mode-after-news-of-obamas-spending-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/229739","title":{"rendered":"The Democrat&#8217;s Circular Firing Squad Set To Go Into Hyper-Mode After News Of Obama&#8217;s Spending Freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/d0b9b914c45fc349a5370500\/shootinfoot-tbi.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"shootinfoot tbi\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/obama-to-announce-spending-freeze-for-tiny-sliver-of-the-federal-budget-that-wont-effect-anything-2010-1\">Did Obama just seal the Democratic party&#8217;s fate<\/a> in November by leaking word of a coming 3-year discretionary spending freeze?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s quickly point out why this already sounds like a political blunder:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It won&#8217;t do jack to control the budget. It only affects 17% of the budget, and that 17% isn&#8217;t the part that&#8217;s growing like crazy.<\/li>\n<li>It won&#8217;t do anything to make conservatives like him.<\/li>\n<li>It will piss off liberals &#8212; royally.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And indeed that last one is already happening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/marcambinder\/statuses\/8215877184\">The Atlantic&#8217;s Marc Ambinder<\/a> reports that labor and other liberal special interest groups are venting fury at The White House this evening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samefacts.com\/2010\/01\/politics-and-leadership\/obamas-self-inflicted-lobotomy-proceeds-apace\/\">Liberal blog Samefacts.com<\/a> announces that Obama&#8217;s &#8220;self-inflicted lobotomy&#8221; proceeds apace.<\/p>\n<p>Red-hot netroots site <a href=\"http:\/\/news.firedoglake.com\/2010\/01\/25\/obama-announcing-three-year-discretionary-spending-freeze\/\">FireDogLake<\/a> &#8212; whose influence on the left really deserves its own story at some point &#8212; is predictably appalled.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/\">Still no word from Paul Krugman<\/a>, but we won&#8217;t be surprised if he chimes in with a paragraph or two somtime tonight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-democrats-circular-firing-squad-set-to-go-into-hyper-mode-after-news-of-obamas-spending-freeze-2010-1#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/obama-to-announce-spending-freeze-for-tiny-sliver-of-the-federal-budget-that-wont-effect-anything-2010-1\">Obama To Announce Spending Freeze For Tiny Sliver Of The Federal Budget That Won&#8217;t Effect Anything<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/obamas-mistake-forgetting-its-all-about-jobs-jobs-jobs-jobs-and-more-jobs-2010-1\">Obama&#8217;s Blunder: Forgetting Politics Is All About Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, And More Jobs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/OOtwoxMuUlA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did Obama just seal the Democratic party&#8217;s fate in November by leaking word of a coming 3-year discretionary spending freeze? Let&#8217;s quickly point out why this already sounds like a political blunder: It won&#8217;t do jack to control the budget. It only affects 17% of the budget, and that 17% isn&#8217;t the part that&#8217;s growing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}