{"id":5374,"date":"2010-12-06T17:28:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T22:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=5374"},"modified":"2010-12-06T17:28:35","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T22:28:35","slug":"let%e2%80%99s-not-make-a-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/12\/06\/let%e2%80%99s-not-make-a-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Not Make a Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Paul Krugman&#8217;s column <a title=\"Paul Krugman column\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/06\/opinion\/06krugman.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Let\u2019s Not Make a Deal<\/strong><\/a>, he said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yes, letting taxes go up would be politically risky. But giving in would be risky, too \u2014 especially for a president whom voters are starting to write off as a man too timid to take a stand. Now is the time for him to prove them wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently he has come to agree with my satirical post <a title=\"Previous Blog Post\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/11\/12\/obama-vows-to-veto-tax-cut-for-the-wealthy\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Obama Vows To Veto Tax Cut For The Wealthy<\/strong><\/a> where I said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The need to cut trillions of dollars from the deficit over the next  decade mandated the ending of the tax cut to people who didn\u2019t  desperately need it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Paul Krugman&#8217;s column Let\u2019s Not Make a Deal, he said: Yes, letting taxes go up would be politically risky. But giving in would be risky, too \u2014 especially for a president whom voters are starting to write off as a man too timid to take a stand. Now is the time for him to [&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-5374","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\/5374","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=5374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5375,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374\/revisions\/5375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}