{"id":2324,"date":"2012-07-26T09:46:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T13:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2324"},"modified":"2012-07-26T09:46:56","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T13:46:56","slug":"romney-struggles-to-distinguish-his-economic-policies-from-bushs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/07\/romney-struggles-to-distinguish-his-economic-policies-from-bushs\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney Struggles To Distinguish His Economic Policies From Bush&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney couldn\u2019t substantially distinguish his economic policies from former President George W. Bush\u2019s during an interview with NBC\u2019s Brian Williams on Wednesday, saying only that he would \u201ctake action to get America on track to have a balanced budget.\u201d Bush increased the national debt by trillions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than detailing specific differences with the former Republican president \u2014 whose deregulatory policies and massive tax cuts have been blamed for the nation\u2019s current economic recession \u2014 Romney described his economic approach with his standard to his four-part talking points:<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/politics\/2012\/07\/25\/587781\/romney-struggles-to-distinguish-his-economic-policies-from-bushs\/\">Romney Struggles To Distinguish His Economic Policies From Bush&#8217;s | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney couldn\u2019t substantially distinguish his economic policies from former President George W. Bush\u2019s during an interview with NBC\u2019s Brian Williams on Wednesday, saying only that he would \u201ctake action to get America on track to have a balanced budget.\u201d Bush increased the national debt by trillions of dollars. Rather than detailing specific differences with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,22],"tags":[24,480,90,549,60,301],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324"}],"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=2324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}