{"id":451306,"date":"2010-03-20T07:38:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T11:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehollywoodliberal.com\/2010\/03\/20\/no-new-promises-please\/"},"modified":"2010-03-20T07:38:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T11:38:37","slug":"no-new-promises-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/451306","title":{"rendered":"No New Promises, Please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/03\/19\/no_new_promises_please_231219.html\" >No New Promises, Please \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Keith Hennessey, KeithHennessey.com<br \/>19 March                             &nbsp;Print this                          This comment is addressed to those fiscally conservative Members of the House of Representatives thinking of voting for pending health care legislation.America is on an unsustainable fiscal path.&#194;&#160; If we do nothing to address this, within 25 years the U.S. government will default on its debt, with devastating consequences for the U.S. economy and society.We are on this path because past elected officials made unsustainable benefit promises and enshrined them in law.&#194;&#160; In some cases they paid for those&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/03\/19\/a_textbook_case_of_hysteria_231192.html\" >A Textbook Case of Hysteria \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Christine Flowers, Philadelphia Daily News<br \/>By Christine M. Flowers \t\t\t\t\tPhiladelphia Daily NewsBy Christine M. Flowers \t\t\t\t\tPhiladelphia Daily NewsBy Christine M. Flowers \t\t\t\t\tPhiladelphia Daily NewsBy Christine M. Flowers \t\t\t\t\tPhiladelphia Daily NewsBy Christine M. Flowers \t\t\t\t\tPhiladelphia Daily NewsBy Christine M. Flowers \t\t\t\t\tPhiladelphia Daily NewsBy Christine M. Flowers \t\t\t\t\tPhiladelphia Daily NewsBy Christine M. Flowers \t\t\t\t\tPhiladelphia Daily NewsBy Christine M. Flowers \t\t\t\t\tPhiladelphia Daily NewsBy Christine M. Flowers \t\t\t\t\tPhiladelphia Daily NewsBy Christine M. Flowers \t\t\t\t\tPhiladelphia Daily NewsBy Christine M. Flowers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/03\/19\/democrats_risk_undermining_process_with_health_bill_231177.html\" >Democrats Risk Undermining Process With Health Bill \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2010\/03\/19\/dems_use_tactics_they_once_reviled_231175.html\" >Dems Use Tactics They Once Reviled \t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/> Steve Huntley, Chicago Sun-Times<br \/>A big showdown vote over health care is coming Sunday, and President Obama and the Democratic leaders of Congress are pulling out all the stops to get their bill passed &#8212; so much so that they&apos;re starting to mimic a lot of what they said they hated in the Bush administration.Obama and the Democrats have embraced arcane legislative maneuvers &#8212; &#8220;reconciliation&#8221; in the Senate and a &#8220;deeming&#8221; rule in the House &#8212; while handing out payoffs like the &#8220;Louisiana Purchase&#8221; to round up the bare minimum of votes needed to enact their legislation. The message is clear:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No New Promises, Please Keith Hennessey, KeithHennessey.com19 March &nbsp;Print this This comment is addressed to those fiscally conservative Members of the House of Representatives thinking of voting for pending health care legislation.America is on an unsustainable fiscal path.&#194;&#160; If we do nothing to address this, within 25 years the U.S. government will default on its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":807,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451306","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\/807"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}