{"id":9310,"date":"2012-05-21T14:20:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T21:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9310"},"modified":"2012-05-21T14:20:06","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T21:20:06","slug":"charts-obama-administration-more-conservative-than-predecessors-on-spending-deficits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9310","title":{"rendered":"FACTS: Obama Administration More Conservative Than Predecessors on Spending, Deficits&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/03\/how-congress-helps-republicans-but-not-democrats-weather-bad-economies-charts.php\">imagine that&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/03\/how-congress-helps-republicans-but-not-democrats-weather-bad-economies-charts.php\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/NetChangeInGovtSpendingInFirstTerms.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And, my goodness, <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2012\/05\/15\/484767\/obama-budget-chart\/\">imagine this, too&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/economy\/2012\/05\/15\/484767\/obama-budget-chart\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/FederalSpendingTaxesDeficitsLowerUnderObama.jpg\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Imagine all that. President Obama isn&#8217;t the &#8220;out-of-control tax-and-spend liberal&#8221; his opponents <strike>claim<\/strike> lie about him being. Not by a long shot.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s not that we&#8217;re arguing any of the above is necessarily worth bragging about one way or another. But they are certainly <i>facts<\/i> which run counter to the lies being told by the GOP and its propaganda machine<i>s<\/i> in hopes of unseating Obama.<\/p>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve noted here many times, there is much to complain about when it comes to the President. Trouble is, his Republican detractors haven&#8217;t mentioned, and aren&#8217;t campaigning on, virtually any of them, choosing instead to simply make stuff up to fool a gullible, well-propagandized nation rather than run on any <i>real<\/i> difference in ideologies.<\/p>\n<p>Lame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, imagine that&#8230; And, my goodness, imagine this, too&#8230; Imagine all that. President Obama isn&#8217;t the &#8220;out-of-control tax-and-spend liberal&#8221; his opponents claim lie about him being. Not by a long shot. Now it&#8217;s not that we&#8217;re arguing any of the above is necessarily worth bragging about one way or another. But they are certainly facts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[239,390,400,14,300],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-economy","category-election-2012","category-fox-news","category-republicans","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9310"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}