{"id":3557,"date":"2011-02-19T01:02:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-19T06:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3557"},"modified":"2011-02-19T02:05:33","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T07:05:33","slug":"would-obama-seriously-curb-ruinous-entitlements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3557","title":{"rendered":"Would Obama seriously curb ruinous entitlements?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That is a million dollar question and I don&#8217;t have the answer to it. I have believed it to be true and have believed it was his inclination. I could be wrong and politics may drive him away from such a course if he determines short term political advantage is more important.<\/p>\n<p>I have been pleased that a few brave Republicans began hinting that they would be grown up and negotiate the curbing of entitlements even if it meant putting some new taxes on the table. I was wrong to think that Republicans would dare stand up to the the fools who drive their party. That&#8217;s apparent from this letter which begins: <\/p>\n<p>Dear Grover, Can I stick my nose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/49104290\/Signed-Letter-to-Grover-Norquist-2-17-11\">any further up your underpants<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is a million dollar question and I don&#8217;t have the answer to it. I have believed it to be true and have believed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,90,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}