{"id":5207,"date":"2011-06-22T10:15:11","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T15:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/?p=5207"},"modified":"2011-06-22T10:15:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T15:15:11","slug":"jmint-cap-cut-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/jmint-cap-cut-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"jMint: Cap, Cut, &#038; Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/167157-demint-says-hell-withhold-support-for-2012ers-who-dont-sign-his-pledge\" target=\"_blank\">The Hill: DeMint creates litmus test for 2012 field By Michael O&#8217;Brien<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) threatened to withhold his support for Republican presidential candidates unless they sign a pledge requiring fiscal reforms in exchange for raising the debt limit.<\/p>\n<p>The conservative senator announced his support of the &#8220;Cut, Cap, and Balance&#8221; Pledge during a speech at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference on Friday and said a drive for support would begin in earnest next week.<\/p>\n<p>The pledge, crafted by several conservative groups, would have signatories vow to oppose raising the debt limit unless three conditions are met: 1. Substantial cuts in spending (Cut), 2. Enforceable spending caps (Cap), and 3. Congressional passage of a balanced budget amendment (Balance).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m telling every presidential candidate, if your name isn&#8217;t on this list, don&#8217;t come see me,&#8221; DeMint said.<\/p>\n<p>Support from the South Carolina senator will be especially coveted by White House contenders, both for the boost in a key primary state and because of his status as a conservative icon within the GOP. DeMint challenged House and Senate candidates to sign the pledge, too.<\/p>\n<p>DeMint&#8217;s website already lists the names of some House and Senate lawmakers and a pair of congressional candidates who&#8217;ve signed. But he appears poised to push the pledge on Republican presidential candidates in such a way that it could become a litmus test for not only conservatives, but also Democrats who may want to use the pledge against GOP contenders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill: DeMint creates litmus test for 2012 field By Michael O&#8217;Brien Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) threatened to withhold his support for Republican presidential candidates unless they sign a pledge requiring fiscal reforms in exchange for raising the debt limit. The conservative senator announced his support of the &#8220;Cut, Cap, and Balance&#8221; Pledge during a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-5207","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\/p2gEQ0-1lZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207","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=5207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}