{"id":84,"date":"2004-11-18T07:56:36","date_gmt":"2004-11-18T07:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/fp-wp\/?p=84"},"modified":"2004-11-18T07:56:36","modified_gmt":"2004-11-18T07:56:36","slug":"debt-ceiling-raised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Debt ceiling raised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the third time in as many years, Congress voted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A58501-2004Nov17.html\">to raise the debt ceiling<\/a>, allowing the government to keep functioning by running up the deficit even further. There was a time when Republicans were seen as the party of limited government and balanced budgets. But no more! They have become the party of no-taxes-but-spend anyway. I call them &#8220;red ink Republicans&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe measure was passed by a nearly straight party-line vote. The new debt ceiling is $8.2 trillion, up from a ceiling of $5.9 trillion when Bush took office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the third time in as many years, Congress voted to raise the debt ceiling, allowing the government to keep functioning by running up the deficit even further. There was a time when Republicans were seen as the party of limited government and balanced budgets. But no more! They have become the party of no-taxes-but-spend anyway. I call them &#8220;red ink Republicans&#8221;. The measure was passed by a nearly straight party-line vote. The new debt ceiling is $8.2 trillion, up from a ceiling of $5.9 trillion when Bush took office.<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=84\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-econ"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-1m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}