{"id":315,"date":"2009-03-31T16:27:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T20:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/03\/31\/gop-budget-cuts-well-ah\/"},"modified":"2009-03-31T16:27:33","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T20:27:33","slug":"gop-budget-cuts-well-ah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/03\/31\/gop-budget-cuts-well-ah\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Budget Cuts?  Well, ah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At about 1:50 in this video, Donnie Deutsch, the token, occasional liberal in the CNBC \u201cPower Lunch\u201d gang asks Sen. Jeff Session (R-Ala.) to be specific about the budget cuts he would call for.&#160; His answer begins with, \u201cWell, ah\u201d and goes downhill from there.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"cnbcplayer\" height=\"380\" width=\"400\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0\" ><param name=\"type\" value=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"best\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"salign\" value=\"lt\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/plus.cnbc.com\/rssvideosearch\/action\/player\/id\/1078826187\/code\/cnbcplayershare\" \/><embed name=\"cnbcplayer\" PLUGINSPAGE=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" height=\"380\" width=\"400\" quality=\"best\" wmode=\"transparent\" scale=\"noscale\" salign=\"lt\" src=\"http:\/\/plus.cnbc.com\/rssvideosearch\/action\/player\/id\/1078826187\/code\/cnbcplayershare\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Note how co-anchor Sue Herrera rescues Sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to any interviewer who asks for specificity when pols mouth vague talking points with no substance behind them.&#160; Sessions finally retreats to the \u201cthe president presents a budget, not us\u201d defense.<\/p>\n<p>But in the tax cut debate, that question \u2013 what would you cut in the budget? \u2013 is often ignored by too many journalists who don\u2019t bother to listen to answers.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the public has caught on to the disingenuousness of this argument.&#160; But I\u2019m not particularly optimistic.&#160; It may be that now, people want jobs and would be happy to be taxed.&#160; Once they are flush again, they may be susceptible to this false argument once again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At about 1:50 in this video, Donnie Deutsch, the token, occasional liberal in the CNBC \u201cPower Lunch\u201d gang asks Sen. Jeff Session (R-Ala.) to be specific about the budget cuts he would call for.&#160; His answer begins with, \u201cWell, ah\u201d and goes downhill from there. &#160; Note how co-anchor Sue Herrera rescues Sessions. Kudos to&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/03\/31\/gop-budget-cuts-well-ah\/\">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\/315"}],"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=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}