{"id":6697,"date":"2011-07-15T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=6697"},"modified":"2011-07-15T09:01:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T14:01:20","slug":"%e2%80%9cdangerous-precedent%e2%80%9d-being-set-in-debt-ceiling-debate-galbraith-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/07\/15\/%e2%80%9cdangerous-precedent%e2%80%9d-being-set-in-debt-ceiling-debate-galbraith-says\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDangerous Precedent\u201d Being Set in Debt Ceiling Debate, Galbraith Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><object width=\"576\" height=\"324\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/nl\/techticker\/site\/player.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"vid=25946494&#038;browseCarouselUI=hide&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed width=\"576\" height=\"324\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/nl\/techticker\/site\/player.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" flashvars=\"vid=25946494&#038;browseCarouselUI=hide&#038;\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<pre>\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<blockquote><p>\nProfessor James Galbraith of The University of Texas, says we&#8217;ve entered &#8220;a tragic moment&#8221; in history where our elected officials are more apt to put ideology before the good of the entire country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not the way we should be perusing these issues,&#8221; he tells Aaron in the accompanying interview. &#8220;We run the risk, first of all, of turning our government into a series of blackmail negotiations, where the full faith in credit of the United States government \u2026 becomes a kind of football for the various political agendas: the Republican agenda but also the President&#8217;s agenda on a long term deficit deal.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor James Galbraith of The University of Texas, says we&#8217;ve entered &#8220;a tragic moment&#8221; in history where our elected officials are more apt to put ideology before the good of the entire country. &#8220;This is not the way we should be perusing these issues,&#8221; he tells Aaron in the accompanying interview. &#8220;We run the risk, [&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-6697","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\/6697","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=6697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6699,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6697\/revisions\/6699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}