{"id":2250,"date":"2006-04-29T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-30T00:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/2006\/04\/29\/sanfords-briar-patch-2\/"},"modified":"2006-04-29T19:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T00:34:00","slug":"sanfords-briar-patch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/sanfords-briar-patch-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanford&#8217;s briar patch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All during the budget process, I along with conservatives have been screaming &#8220;stop this <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/6269\/986\/200\/brer%2520rabbit.png\" border=\"0\" \/>irresponsible spending&#8221;! Well, we fought the good fight, yet when the votes came, we failed. At the end, the big spenders win and the taxpayers lose. As I try to be optimistic in every bad situation, I have drawn one positive note in this losing song of wasteful spending and I hope you can follow my tune. Ponder this. Politically, this is a win for Gov. Sanford. He gets a big fat budget with more pork than Circle M BBQ. I&#8217;m predicting Mark throws out his rotator cuff scratching through the line-item-vetoes.<br \/>I&#8217;m not doubting Sanford&#8217;s sincerity nor his spending principles, but fans of big government are throwing him into the briar patch!<br \/>&#8220;Skin me Briar Fox,&#8221; says Briar Rabbit. &#8220;Snatch out my eyeballs, tear out my ears by the roots,&#8221; says he, &#8220;But please, Briar Fox, don&#8217;t fling me in <em>that<\/em> briar patch, &#8220;. (Song of the South)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All during the budget process, I along with conservatives have been screaming &#8220;stop this irresponsible spending&#8221;! Well, we fought the good fight, yet when the votes came, we failed. At the end, the big spenders win and the taxpayers lose. As I try to be optimistic in every bad situation, I have drawn one positive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-Ai","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}