{"id":1668,"date":"2011-09-12T10:36:57","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T14:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multiplier-effect.org\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2011-09-12T14:47:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T18:47:18","slug":"the-american-bits-and-pieces-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/the-american-bits-and-pieces-act\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Bits and Pieces Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AJA is DOA.\u00a0 Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0911\/63214.html\">Politico<\/a>:\u00a0 &#8220;House Republicans may pass bits and pieces of President Barack Obama\u2019s jobs plan, but behind the scenes, some Republicans are becoming worried about giving Obama any victories \u2014 even on issues the GOP has supported in the past.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For Thomas Masterson&#8217;s extensive treatment of the proposed American Jobs Act (&#8220;equal parts weak tea and bitter pill&#8221;), see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.multiplier-effect.org\/?p=1647\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update: <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/09\/cantor-to-obama-lets-nix-more-than-half-your-jobs-bill.php?ref=fpa\">50% DOA<\/a>.\u00a0 Or as Miracle Max put it:\u00a0 &#8220;Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only <em>mostly<\/em> dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AJA is DOA.\u00a0 Via Politico:\u00a0 &#8220;House Republicans may pass bits and pieces of President Barack Obama\u2019s jobs plan, but behind the scenes, some Republicans are becoming worried about giving Obama any victories \u2014 even on issues the GOP has supported in the past.&#8221; For Thomas Masterson&#8217;s extensive treatment of the proposed American Jobs Act [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1670,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions\/1670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}