{"id":2983,"date":"2013-01-17T10:49:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T15:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=2983"},"modified":"2013-01-17T10:49:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T15:49:19","slug":"republicans-worry-theyll-lose-house-if-they-botch-debt-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/01\/republicans-worry-theyll-lose-house-if-they-botch-debt-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans worry they\u2019ll lose House if they botch debt talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/12\/cnn-poll-are-gop-policies-too-extreme\/gop-logo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2873\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2873\" alt=\"GOP-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/GOP-logo-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s growing angst among Republicans that the party\u2019s House majority could be at risk in 2014 if the deep GOP divisions that emerged during the recent \u201cfiscal cliff\u201d negotiations persist in looming negotiations over a slew of budgetary issues.<\/p>\n<p>Even as Republican officials maintain the GOP majority is safe, several lawmakers and longtime activists warn of far-reaching political ramifications if voters perceive Republicans as botching consequential talks on the debt ceiling, sequestration and a possible government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMajorities are elected to do things, and if they become dysfunctional, the American people will change what the majority is,\u201d Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), a House deputy majority whip and a former National Republican Congressional Committee chairman, told The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns on the right stem from a public perception that House Republicans were to blame \u2014 because of poor leadership strategy and rank-and-file dissent \u2014 for bringing the country to the edge of the fiscal cliff late last month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/277655-republicans-worry-house-majority-in-danger-if-gop-botches-fiscal-talks\" target=\"_blank\">Republicans worry they\u2019ll lose House if they botch debt talks &#8211; The Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s growing angst among Republicans that the party\u2019s House majority could be at risk in 2014 if the deep GOP divisions that emerged during the recent \u201cfiscal cliff\u201d negotiations persist in looming negotiations over a slew of budgetary issues. Even as Republican officials maintain the GOP majority is safe, several lawmakers and longtime activists warn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,1608,22],"tags":[1192,243,1603],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983"}],"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=2983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2984,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2983\/revisions\/2984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}