{"id":25032,"date":"2011-08-02T18:47:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T22:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=25032"},"modified":"2011-08-02T18:47:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T22:47:23","slug":"quote-of-the-day-an-endgame-to-a-thirty-years-fiscal-war-in-american-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/08\/02\/quote-of-the-day-an-endgame-to-a-thirty-years-fiscal-war-in-american-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day: &#8220;An endgame to a thirty years&#8217; fiscal war in American politics&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Obama on Debt Ceiling August 2nd, 2011\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-DBfIO9BUSs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Obama statement earlier today<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Andrew Sullivan takes a much more <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com\/2011\/08\/obamas-pyrrhic-defeat.html\" target=\"_blank\">sanguine view <\/a>of the debt ceiling settlement, seeing it as a game changer in which Obama has the longterm advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe. But the human cost has been and will continue to be immense. It never had to be. Meanwhile, the incidence of political thuggery on the right has barreled headlong into uncharted territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama statement earlier today Andrew Sullivan takes a much more sanguine view of the debt ceiling settlement, seeing it as a game changer in which Obama has the longterm advantage. Maybe. But the human cost has been and will continue to be immense. It never had to be. 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