{"id":85367,"date":"2023-05-14T12:02:21","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T17:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=85367"},"modified":"2023-05-14T12:02:21","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T17:02:21","slug":"american-congressional-democracy-is-broken-we-had-sustainable-finances-in-the-bag-then-the-new-george-w-bush-administration-put-a-rock-in-the-bag-and-threw-it-into-the-marianas-trench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=85367","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;American congressional democracy is broken &#8230; We had sustainable finances in the bag. Then the new George W. Bush administration put a rock in the bag and threw it into the Marianas Trench.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2023\/05\/14\/real-world-economics-our-kicked-can-is-running-out-of-road\/\">Link<\/a>. &#8220;Fixing our politics will require large numbers of our citizenry to give up deeply-held self-delusions &#8230; More in future weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lotterman is basically an &#8220;Arne Carlson*&#8221; old time MN conservative &#8212; an extinct species that we sorely need to resurrect. I&#8217;m very curious what he&#8217;s going to advise.<\/p>\n<p>(The modern MN GOP hates Carlson with supernova intensity.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link. &#8220;Fixing our politics will require large numbers of our citizenry to give up deeply-held self-delusions &#8230; More in future weeks.&#8221; Lotterman is basically an &#8220;Arne Carlson*&#8221; old time MN conservative &#8212; an extinct species that we sorely need to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=85367\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-85367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-pinboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85368,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85367\/revisions\/85368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}