{"id":9899,"date":"2013-03-04T12:56:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T20:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9899"},"modified":"2013-03-04T12:55:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T20:55:58","slug":"chart-of-the-moment-what-republicans-hope-you-dont-notice-about-our-debt-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9899","title":{"rendered":"Chart of the Moment: What Republicans Hope You Don&#8217;t Notice About Our &#8216;Debt Problem&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While D.C. and its media hacks continue to play along with the Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9887\">&#8220;Debt Crisis!!!&#8221; hoax<\/a>, and pretend that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2013\/03\/02\/this-is-why-obama-cant-make-a-deal-with-republicans\/\">&#8220;Obama just needs to lead on the Sequester!!!&#8221;<\/a>, it&#8217;s worth remembering the following chart, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ezraklein\/status\/307206860035993600\">described on Saturday<\/a> by <i>WaPo&#8217;s<\/i> Ezra Klein as &#8220;The single best chart on the policies driving our deficits&#8221;, as recently updated for what they say is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2013\/02\/28\/the-single-best-chart-on-the-policies-driving-our-deficits-now-updated\/\">the final time<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2013\/02\/28\/the-single-best-chart-on-the-policies-driving-our-deficits-now-updated\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/FederalDeficitChart_BushTaxCutsWar_030213.png\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Any questions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While D.C. and its media hacks continue to play along with the Republican &#8220;Debt Crisis!!!&#8221; hoax, and pretend that &#8220;Obama just needs to lead on the Sequester!!!&#8221;, it&#8217;s worth remembering the following chart, described on Saturday by WaPo&#8217;s Ezra Klein as &#8220;The single best chart on the policies driving our deficits&#8221;, as recently updated for [&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":[405,390,300],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-9899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bush-legacy","category-economy","category-republicans"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9899","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=9899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9899"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=9899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}