{"id":165,"date":"2011-09-15T10:21:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T14:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=165"},"modified":"2011-09-15T10:21:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T14:21:28","slug":"a-potential-superhero-for-the-supercommittee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2011\/09\/a-potential-superhero-for-the-supercommittee\/","title":{"rendered":"A Potential Superhero For The Supercommittee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/09\/13\/140431010\/a-potential-super-hero-for-the-supercommittee?ft=1&amp;f=1014\"><img src='http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/ap110913134398.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At one point, Arizona Republican Sen. Jon Kyl suggested that the government might raise money by tackling Medicare fraud or by selling public lands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not against our working with you on any issue that you want us to work with you on,&#8221; Elmendorf said. &#8220;But there&#8217;s no evidence that suggests that this sort of effort can represent a large share of the $1.2 trillion or $1.5 trillion in savings for this committee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trillions with a T, he reminded them.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/09\/13\/140431010\/a-potential-super-hero-for-the-supercommittee?ft=1&amp;f=1014\">A Potential Superhero For The Supercommittee : NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; At one point, Arizona Republican Sen. Jon Kyl suggested that the government might raise money by tackling Medicare fraud or by selling public lands. &#8220;I&#8217;m not against our working with you on any issue that you want us to work with you on,&#8221; Elmendorf said. &#8220;But there&#8217;s no evidence that suggests that this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,16],"tags":[24,72,55,69,70,71,1976,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}