{"id":244148,"date":"2010-01-28T22:14:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T03:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/tweet-week-daily-kos-founder-disses-spending-freeze-38746\/"},"modified":"2010-01-28T22:14:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T03:14:01","slug":"tweet-of-the-week-daily-kos-founder-disses-spending-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/244148","title":{"rendered":"Tweet of the Week: Daily Kos Founder Disses Spending Freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On 01.28.10 02:00 PM posted by Brandon Stewart<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/tweetofweek.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/tweetofweek.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> On Tuesday, President Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/01\/25\/AR2010012503549.html\" >announced his plan<\/a> for a discretionary spending freeze, a plan he outlined in greater detail at the State of the Union. As we have <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/01\/26\/is-obamas-underwhelming-spending-freeze-a-fakeroo\/\" >outlined<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/01\/27\/morning-bell-president-obama-is-right-we-have-a-spending-problem\/\" >throughout<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/01\/27\/cbo-baseline-shows-staggering-debt\/\" >the week<\/a>, while a step in the right direction, this plan does little to provide the comprehensive reform of the federal budget that is so*desperately*needed.<\/p>\n<p> After the freeze was announced, <i>Daily Kos <\/i>founder Markos Moulitsas, sent the following tweet to his followers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>@marcos: You don&#8217;t freeze spending, then spend. And if a program is &#8220;wasteful&#8221;, you eliminate it rather than freeze.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It goes without saying that when even the <i>Daily Kos<\/i> fails to find merit in the President&#8217;s proposals, the Administration needs to step back and reevaluate its policies.<\/p>\n<p> You can follow The Heritage Foundation on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/heritage\" >@Heritage<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/01\/28\/tweet-of-the-week-daily-kos-founder-disses-spending-freeze\/\" >http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/01\/28\/&#8230;ending-freeze\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 01.28.10 02:00 PM posted by Brandon Stewart On Tuesday, President Obama announced his plan for a discretionary spending freeze, a plan he outlined in greater detail at the State of the Union. As we have outlined throughout the week, while a step in the right direction, this plan does little to provide the comprehensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244148","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\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}