{"id":1713,"date":"2003-09-11T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-11T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1713"},"modified":"2003-09-11T18:47:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-11T22:47:00","slug":"take-the-high-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/09\/11\/18\/47\/take-the-high-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Take the High Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzflash.com\/interviews\/03\/09\/11_krugman.html\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The concept that the president of the United States is flat-out lying about the sustainability of his own economic policy -\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd that&#8217;s too high a hill for them to climb. And I guess the general public tends to give him the benefit of the doubt &#8230; Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform and a board member of the National Rifle Association and GOP advisor, made a comment that he wants to <b>shrink the size of the federal government so small that he could drown it in a bathtub<\/b>. When you look at the Bush economic policy, are we dealing with an ideology to destroy social programs and the federal government? Or is it mismanagement? Or both?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept that the president of the United States is flat-out lying about the sustainability of his own economic policy -\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd that&#8217;s too high a hill for them to climb. And I guess the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}