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description: (hide) Richard Ritenbaugh reflects on the dearth of leadership in this country, with the socialist collective policies of the Democrats and the spineless "let’s get along approach" of the Republicans. In a smoky back room, a sinister sell-out bill is being crafted, making the debt ceiling situation infinitely worse. It never gets better. Every time a politician promises a "cut," he simply pulls forward the baseline, and the country still increases expenditure. Bi-partisan "big deals" have always been sell-outs, with the left wing snookering the seemingly clueless and naïve Conservatives. The debt will eventually sink the ship of state like a leaky lead submarine, as the trade deficits continue to mount. Grand compromises have never boded well for America, including the present ill-advised Boehner Bill. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Commentary: Compromise “Big Deals” Just Make Things Worse #1059c Richard T. Ritenbaugh Given 30-Jul-11; 16 minutes listen: description: (hide) Richard Ritenbaugh reflects on the dearth of leadership in this country, with the socialist collective policies of the Democrats and the spineless "let’s get along approach" of the Republicans. In a smoky back room, a sinister … Continue reading “Commentary: Compromise”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}