{"id":1072,"date":"2004-01-12T11:18:43","date_gmt":"2004-01-12T16:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1072.html"},"modified":"2004-01-12T11:18:43","modified_gmt":"2004-01-12T16:18:43","slug":"cheneys-dramatic-reversal-on-deficits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/cheneys-dramatic-reversal-on-deficits\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheney&#8217;s dramatic reversal on deficits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the old Dick Cheney, the one who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/072800-101.htm\">voted against Head Start<\/a> because he didn&#8217;t want to increase the deficit?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny how fast a guy can change. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/site\/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&#038;b=8473\">Center for American Progress<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,1101040119-574809,00.html\">Cheney in early 2003<\/a>: &#8220;Reagan proved deficits don&#8217;t matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn\/A15664-2003Sep15?language=printer\">Cheney in late 2003<\/a>: &#8220;I am a deficit hawk. So is the President.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the old Dick Cheney, the one who voted against Head Start because he didn&#8217;t want to increase the deficit? It&#8217;s funny how fast a guy can change. From the Center for American Progress: Cheney in early 2003: &#8220;Reagan proved deficits don&#8217;t matter.&#8221; Cheney in late 2003: &#8220;I am a deficit hawk. So is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}