{"id":955,"date":"2007-02-23T14:49:23","date_gmt":"2007-02-23T21:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/?p=955"},"modified":"2007-02-23T14:49:23","modified_gmt":"2007-02-23T21:49:23","slug":"bout-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/?p=955","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;BOUT TIME!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article\">\n<div class=\"headline1\">Economist: GOP headed for trouble unless changes are made<\/div>\n<div class=\"byline\">By Jonathan Ellis<\/div>\n<p>Republicans at the national level face a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bleak\u00e2\u20ac\u009d political future if they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find leaders who can swing the party back to its low-tax, small-government roots, a leading conservative said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Moore, an economist who founded the Club for Growth, a national fundraising group that has spent millions to elect free-market candidates, said Republicans suffered defeats in the House and Senate last year because they became \u00e2\u20ac\u0153seduced by the power\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of being the majority party for years.<\/p>\n<p>That majority status led Republicans down the path of pork-barrel spending, a path that led to defeat in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think Republicans haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hit the bottom yet,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Moore said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Things could get worse before they get better.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Moore spoke to a small number of conservatives at a private gathering in Sioux Falls, followed by a luncheon.<\/p>\n<p>The North and South Dakota chapters of Americans for Prosperity hosted the event.<\/p>\n<p>For more on this story, see Saturday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Argus Leader.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economist: GOP headed for trouble unless changes are made By Jonathan Ellis Republicans at the national level face a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bleak\u00e2\u20ac\u009d political future if they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t find leaders who can swing the party back to its low-tax, small-government roots, a leading conservative said Friday. Stephen Moore, an economist who founded the Club for Growth, a national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.25dp.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}