{"id":14671,"date":"2013-10-07T13:03:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T17:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=14671"},"modified":"2013-10-07T13:03:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T17:03:13","slug":"a-federal-budget-crisis-months-in-the-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/10\/07\/a-federal-budget-crisis-months-in-the-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That great bastion of conspiracy theories, <em>The New York Times<\/em>, has the article <strong><a title=\"The New York Times article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/06\/us\/a-federal-budget-crisis-months-in-the-planning.html\" target=\"_blank\">A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To many Americans, the shutdown came out of nowhere. But interviews with a wide array of conservatives show that the confrontation that precipitated the crisis was the outgrowth of a long-running effort to undo the law, the Affordable Care Act, since its passage in 2010 \u2014 waged by a galaxy of conservative groups with more money, organized tactics and interconnections than is commonly known.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n\u201cThey\u2019ve been hugely influential,\u201d said David Wasserman, who tracks House races for the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. \u201cWhen else in our history has a freshman member of Congress from North Carolina been able to round up a gang of 80 that\u2019s essentially ground the government to a halt?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This shouldn&#8217;t be a surprise to anyone who is paying attention.\u00a0 Perhaps the people who think both sides are equally to blame may be surprised by this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That great bastion of conspiracy theories, The New York Times, has the article A Federal Budget Crisis Months in the Planning. To many Americans, the shutdown came out of nowhere. But interviews with a wide array of conservatives show that the confrontation that precipitated the crisis was the outgrowth of a long-running effort to undo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14672,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14671\/revisions\/14672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}