{"id":3736,"date":"2011-03-22T16:22:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T22:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/remember-the-republicans-priorities-in-2012\/"},"modified":"2011-03-22T16:22:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T22:22:11","slug":"remember-the-republicans-priorities-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/remember-the-republicans-priorities-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember the Republicans’ Priorities in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

– The NPR ’emergency’<\/a> by Dana Milbank<\/p>\n

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House Republicans called an "emergency meeting" last week, suspending the usual procedures to rush an urgent piece of legislation to the floor. <\/p>\n

Had the new majority finally come up with a job-creation bill? A compromise with Democrats to rein in the deficit? <\/p>\n

Not quite. This particular emergency involved the lower end of the FM-radio dial. Republicans, in an urgent budget-cutting maneuver<\/font>, were voting to cut off funding for National Public Radio.<\/a> All $5 million of it – or one ten-thousandth of 1 percent of the federal budget<\/font>. <\/p>\n

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office ran the numbers and calculated the impact this emergency measure would have on government spending: "No effect." <\/font><\/p>\n

Five minutes after acting on this \u201cbudgetary emergency,\u201d House Republicans voted to continue the war in Afghanistan – which costs about $10 billion. Per month. They then flew home for a vacation.<\/font>  [mjh: quotes added]<\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

– The NPR ’emergency’<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

– The NPR ’emergency’ by Dana Milbank House Republicans called an "emergency meeting" last week, suspending the usual procedures to rush an urgent piece of legislation to the floor. Had the new majority finally come up with a job-creation bill? A compromise with Democrats to rein in the deficit? Not quite. This particular emergency involved … Continue reading Remember the Republicans’ Priorities in 2012<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}