{"id":7749,"date":"2011-07-27T11:14:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T15:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=7749"},"modified":"2011-07-27T11:14:51","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T15:14:51","slug":"quote-of-the-day-from-senator-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2011\/07\/27\/quote-of-the-day-from-senator-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day from Senator Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The fact that we are here today to debate raising America &#8216;s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure.  It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills.  It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government&#8217;s reckless fiscal policies.  Increasing America&#8217;s debt weakens us domestically and internationally.  Leadership means that, &#8216;the buck stops here&#8217;.  Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren.   <strong>America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.<\/strong> Americans deserve better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The fact that we are here today to debate raising America &#8216;s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government&#8217;s reckless fiscal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-legislation","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7750,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749\/revisions\/7750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}