{"id":1124,"date":"2011-09-26T21:04:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T01:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2011-09-26T21:05:23","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T01:05:23","slug":"another-shutdown-averted-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=1124","title":{"rendered":"Another Shutdown Averted&#8230; For Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-15065209\" target=\"_blank\">Well, the Senate passed a resolution<\/a> that will keep the government solvent for a while, but it&#8217;s not a permanent fix. The whole thing can keep happening over and over again because the two houses of the legislature aren&#8217;t playing ball with each other in a nice way.<\/p>\n<p>But what complicates things further is how the Tea Party Republicans are breaking party discipline and are instead behaving like a rebellious junior partner in a coalition government. This is real gridlock in government at a time when we need real action instead.<\/p>\n<p>And though Americans don&#8217;t like Congress as a whole, most Americans like their own Congressman, even though he&#8217;s typically part of the problem in the Congress. What to do if we&#8217;re just going to re-elect the same gang? Don&#8217;t tell me the solution is to vote for the other guy or a third-party candidate. The fact is, the incumbents win their elections and they&#8217;re going to keep doing what they&#8217;re doing now or become more extreme. With that in mind, what can we do that has a serious chance of succeeding?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the Senate passed a resolution that will keep the government solvent for a while, but it&#8217;s not a permanent fix. The whole thing can keep happening over and over again because the two houses of the legislature aren&#8217;t playing ball with each other in a nice way. But what complicates things further is how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}