{"id":4123,"date":"2011-02-21T08:27:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T16:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4123"},"modified":"2011-02-21T08:27:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T16:27:47","slug":"when-terrorists-take-hostages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/21\/when-terrorists-take-hostages\/","title":{"rendered":"When Terrorists Take Hostages…"},"content":{"rendered":"

When terrorists take hostages, the worst thing a responsible person can do is to give in to their demands.  First there is no guarantee that the will release the hostages.  Second, there is a virtual guarantee that they will take more hostages and make more demands.  By now, that should be crystal clear to the President and congressional Democrats.  When Republicans took the unemployed hostage, Obama and the Democrats caved in and gave them $billions for tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires.  As soon as the new Congress opened, Republicans screwed the unemployed anyway.  Now they have taken hostage the faith and credit of the United States.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"GOPTerrorism\"The House and Senate are headed for a budget collision that could shut down the federal government as early as next week.<\/p>\n

The main snag is a looming impasse over proposed spending cuts – including big budget whacks for New York.<\/p>\n

"Unfortunately, [House] Speaker [John] Boehner seems to be on a course that would inevitably lead to a shutdown<\/strong>," Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.] said on CNN Sunday.<\/p>\n

The plan the House passed Friday axes $61 billion and calls for massive cuts to education<\/strong> funding for New York:<\/p>\n

– $36 million in special education funds<\/p>\n

– $466 million in college Pell grants<\/p>\n

– $30 million in aid to schools in low-income neighborhoods<\/p>\n

– 12,000 slots in preschool Head Start programs<\/p>\n

Similarly stark cuts are proposed for health care funding, homeland security, transportation and nearly all other government programs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The plan threatens to leave the Democratic-controlled Senate at loggerheads with the Republican-controlled House. It also raises the prospect of a shutdown if they fail to cut a deal by March 4, when the federal government would run out of money.<\/p>\n

Congress never passed a budget for this year<\/strong> and instead relied on so-called continuing resolutions to keep funds flowing. The $61 billion cut Boehner pushed through last week would lead to a budget that’s about $100 billion less than what President Obama requested.<\/p>\n

Democrats say that is just too much because the resolutions they’ve already passed are on pace to slash $41 billion for the year\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Agent Orange Boehner and Bought Bitch Mitch McConnell refuse to take government shutdown off the table.  While I admit a government shutdown would be catastrophic, it would be no worse than the suffering that Republicans would inflict on Main Street with their Draconian policy, while refusing to even discuss the inequities in the tax code that are far more responsible for the current financial crisis than the programs Republicans would gut.  Under no circumstances can they be allowed to get away with it.  If Obama and the Democrats cave-in again, we can only imagine what the Republicans will take hostage next.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When terrorists take hostages, the worst thing a responsible person can do is to give in to their demands.  First there is no guarantee that the will release the hostages.  Second, there is a virtual guarantee that they will take more hostages and make more demands.  By now, that should be crystal clear to the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}