{"id":3688,"date":"2013-10-10T02:26:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T02:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=3688"},"modified":"2013-10-10T02:26:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T02:26:59","slug":"is-it-true-can-there-finally-be-a-budget-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3688","title":{"rendered":"Is it true? Can there finally be a budget breakthrough?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I try to remain optimistic on most matters, even those things relating to politics, policy and the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the glimmer of hope we&#8217;re seeing late Wednesday about a possible budget breakthrough strengthens me enough to want to face another day.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/327665-the-ice-breaks-fiscal-talks-set<\/p>\n<p>President Obama is meeting Thursday with key congressional leaders of both parties to start hammering out a deal to reopen part of the government and avoid the cataclysm that would occur if the government fails to increase its debt limit.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out the chairman of the House Budget Committee, former GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, may have a way out of this mess. It involves a short-term spending resolution that is supposed to buy the principals time to hammer out a deal on &#8220;entitlement reform.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Will there ever be a long-term funding solution that avoids this kind of ridiculousness in the future? That remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>At least everyone is talking to each other.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s get this deal done.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I try to remain optimistic on most matters, even those things relating to politics, policy and the federal government. Therefore, the glimmer of hope we&#8217;re seeing late Wednesday about a possible budget breakthrough strengthens me enough to want to face another day. http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/327665-the-ice-breaks-fiscal-talks-set President Obama is meeting Thursday with key congressional leaders of both parties &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3688\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is it true? Can there finally be a budget breakthrough?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[540,1301,1978,3524],"class_list":["post-3688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-debt-ceiling","tag-government-shutdown","tag-paul-ryan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}