{"id":6831,"date":"2011-07-23T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=6831"},"modified":"2011-07-23T10:01:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T15:01:37","slug":"barney-frank-%e2%80%98there-are-worse-things-than-default%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/07\/23\/barney-frank-%e2%80%98there-are-worse-things-than-default%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Barney Frank: \u2018There are worse things than default\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" id=\"+id+\" width=\"400\" height=\"336\" codebase=\"http:\/\/fpdownload.macromedia.com\/get\/flashplayer\/current\/swflash.cab\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/v\/MjEyNjktNDgyMTI?color=C93033\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/v\/MjEyNjktNDgyMTI?color=C93033\" quality=\"high\" wmode=\"transparent\"\twidth=\"400\" height=\"336\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" name=\"clembedMjEyNjktNDgyMTI\" align=\"middle\" quality=\"high\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/div>\n<pre>\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Quoting for the RawStory transcript of the above video in the article Barney Frank: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rawreplay\/2011\/07\/barney-frank-there-are-worse-things-than-default\/\" title=\"Article about interview with Barney Frank\">\u2018There are worse things than default\u2019<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cWhat do you say to the president?\u201d Mitchell asked. \u201cIs it better to default? You know, you\u2019re the ranking member of Financial Services. You know what\u2019s at risk here with the ratings services and everybody else that have now gotten into this situation\u2026 Is he going to lose the Democratic caucus?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes,\u201d Frank predicted. \u201cI\u2019ve already voted to raise the debt limit. I voted to raise it earlier this year straight forward. And by the way, it\u2019s not my debt limit. I voted against the war in Iraq and I voted against the Bush tax cuts. On my debt limit, I got a couple trillion left to go. I was very generous. I voted to raise the other people\u2019s debt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think the president should allow the irresponsibility of the right wing to say, \u2018We\u2019re going to shoot you if you don\u2019t do this.\u2019 No, I don\u2019t want there to be a default but there are worse things than default. And worse things than default are wrenching the American government out of shape, losing the principle of majority rule that\u2019s been such and important gift from America to the rest of the world, inflicting pain on the most vulnerable people in our society, continuing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to subsidize military budgets all over the world and cut back on people here.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quoting for the RawStory transcript of the above video in the article Barney Frank: \u2018There are worse things than default\u2019 \u201cWhat do you say to the president?\u201d Mitchell asked. \u201cIs it better to default? You know, you\u2019re the ranking member of Financial Services. You know what\u2019s at risk here with the ratings services and everybody [&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-6831","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\/6831","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=6831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6834,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions\/6834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}