{"id":787,"date":"2005-03-11T17:13:18","date_gmt":"2005-03-11T22:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/03\/11\/quote_of_the_da-2\/"},"modified":"2005-03-11T17:13:18","modified_gmt":"2005-03-11T22:13:18","slug":"quote_of_the_da-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/03\/11\/quote_of_the_da-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;[The tax fight] is behind us.&#8221;<br \/>\nSpeaker of the House <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtontimes.com\/metro\/20050309-110346-3972r.htm\">Bill Howell<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, I suppose Howell would like it to be \u201cbehind us.\u201d  A case might be made that the Dems shouldn\u2019t let that happen.  But clearly some GOPers are happy to keep mouthing the same mantra.  Del. Dick Black (R-Sterling) <a href=\"http:\/\/commonwealthcommonsense.typepad.com\/commonwealthcommonsense\/files\/full_disclosure.doc\">[Disclosure]<\/a> is already trying to pin his opponent, Dave Poisson, as a tax and spend liberal.  At the same time, Black wants to take credit for new highway money coming Loudoun\u2019s way.  I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll try to take credit for new school money and anything else he doesn\u2019t deserve.  But the Dems should be countering with \u201cwithout the tax increase and the car-tax cap, there would have been no money last year and less this year.\u201d  If the tax hikes were so unpopular, why is Warner so popular?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m willing to bet the anti-tax crusade, both nationally and in Virginia, is running out of gas.  So maybe let\u2019s not put it behind us just yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[The tax fight] is behind us.&#8221; Speaker of the House Bill Howell Yes, I suppose Howell would like it to be \u201cbehind us.\u201d A case might be made that the Dems shouldn\u2019t let that happen. But clearly some GOPers are happy to keep mouthing the same mantra. Del. Dick Black (R-Sterling) [Disclosure] is already trying&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2005\/03\/11\/quote_of_the_da-2\/\">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\/787"}],"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=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}