{"id":14684,"date":"2013-10-08T12:50:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T16:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=14684"},"modified":"2013-10-08T12:50:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-08T16:50:22","slug":"president-takes-my-advice-and-calls-boehner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/10\/08\/president-takes-my-advice-and-calls-boehner\/","title":{"rendered":"President Takes My Advice and Calls Boehner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>USA Today<\/em> has the brief article <a title=\"USA Today article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2013\/10\/08\/obama-boehner-phone-call-shutdown-debt-ceiling\/2944019\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Obama calls Boehner, will speak at 2 p.m.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Obama called House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday, again telling the Ohio Republican he will not negotiate on budget items until the GOP-run House ends the shutdown and raises the debt ceiling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gee, you&#8217;d almost think that the White House read my blog post <a title=\"Previous Post\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/10\/08\/white-house-open-to-short-term-increase-in-debt-ceiling\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>White House open to short-term increase in debt ceiling<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 This is where I suggested the wording:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cCongress, just do your job.\u00a0 Keep the government running.\u00a0 Call me after you have done your job, and we can talk about other issues.\u00a0 There will be no further communications to you from the White House.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Between the President and Elizabeth Warren, we might get this resolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today has the brief article Obama calls Boehner, will speak at 2 p.m. President Obama called House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday, again telling the Ohio Republican he will not negotiate on budget items until the GOP-run House ends the shutdown and raises the debt ceiling. Gee, you&#8217;d almost think that the White House [&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-14684","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\/14684","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=14684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14685,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14684\/revisions\/14685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}