{"id":2300,"date":"2011-08-12T20:06:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T00:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2011-08-12T20:06:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T00:06:17","slug":"thanks-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/12\/thanks-tea-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks, Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0811\/61147.html\">Politico<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>A Standard &#038; Poor\u2019s director said for the first time Thursday that one reason the United States lost its triple-A credit rating was that several lawmakers expressed skepticism about the serious consequences of a credit default \u2014 a position put forth by some Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Without specifically mentioning Republicans, S&#038;P senior director Joydeep Mukherji said the stability and effectiveness of American political institutions were undermined by the fact that \u201cpeople in the political arena were even talking about a potential default,\u201d Mukherji said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat a country even has such voices, albeit a minority, is something notable,\u201d he added. \u201cThis kind of rhetoric is not common amongst AAA sovereigns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I hope everyone remembers this, come next November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Politico: A Standard &#038; Poor\u2019s director said for the first time Thursday that one reason the United States lost its triple-A credit rating was that several lawmakers expressed skepticism about the serious consequences of a credit default \u2014 a <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/12\/thanks-tea-party\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}