{"id":3759,"date":"2010-04-16T11:10:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T16:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=3759"},"modified":"2010-04-16T20:59:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T01:59:08","slug":"mitch-mcconnel-and-bank-bailouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/04\/16\/mitch-mcconnel-and-bank-bailouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitch McConnell and Bank Bailouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Krugman Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/16\/opinion\/16krugman.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the Paul Krugman piece in the <em>New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Krugman&#8217;s last sentence sums up the piece nicely:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So don\u2019t be fooled. When Mitch McConnell denounces big bank bailouts,  what he\u2019s really trying to do is give the bankers everything they want.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As for whether or not we ought to just let banks fail, he says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So it\u2019s crucial to avoid disorderly bank collapses, just as it\u2019s crucial  to avoid out-of-control urban fires.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the Paul Krugman piece in the New York Times. Krugman&#8217;s last sentence sums up the piece nicely: So don\u2019t be fooled. When Mitch McConnell denounces big bank bailouts, what he\u2019s really trying to do is give the bankers everything they want. As for whether or not we ought to just let [&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-3759","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\/3759","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=3759"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3765,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions\/3765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}