{"id":310,"date":"2009-04-02T10:38:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T14:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/04\/02\/republican-budget-no-respect\/"},"modified":"2009-04-02T10:38:26","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T14:38:26","slug":"republican-budget-no-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/04\/02\/republican-budget-no-respect\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Budget: No Respect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Far be it from me to defend the GOPers budget alternative.&#160; I may not like, but I\u2019d like a little more than what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/04\/01\/AR2009040102261.html\">The Washington Post offered this morning<\/a>.&#160; Less than 12 column inches, the budget story was buried on page A6.&#160; Here\u2019s why:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>While the minority party in Congress typically offers an alternative budget plan that is widely ignored, this year&#8217;s proposal has drawn fresh attention thanks to the scathing GOP criticism of Obama&#8217;s budget plans and the president&#8217;s challenge to the GOP to offer a constructive alternative. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Two points here.&#160; One, because it has little chance of being passed, The Post decided that people don\u2019t really need to know what the Repugs are offering.&#160; I disagree, and not only because I want it more widely ridiculed.&#160; If the positions were reversed, I\u2019d like more people to see what the Dems were offering.&#160; If you want an informed electorate, then you need to give voters the information needed to make&#160; judgments.&#160; In the 2010 elections, it would be helpful to know how the opposition might govern.&#160; If you know what that alternative is early on, voters can make judgments along the way on how things might be different leading up to the 2010 vote.&#160; The second point is that if the situation were reversed, Dems would do well to offer full throated criticism of a GOP president\u2019s budget.&#160; Making a lot of noise just might draw \u201cfresh attention.\u201d&#160; That\u2019s PR 101, but Dems don\u2019t seem to understand that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far be it from me to defend the GOPers budget alternative.&#160; I may not like, but I\u2019d like a little more than what The Washington Post offered this morning.&#160; Less than 12 column inches, the budget story was buried on page A6.&#160; Here\u2019s why: While the minority party in Congress typically offers an alternative budget&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/04\/02\/republican-budget-no-respect\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}