{"id":363,"date":"2003-10-12T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-12T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=363"},"modified":"2018-08-03T14:52:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T19:52:54","slug":"363","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/12\/363\/","title":{"rendered":"Gephardt Proves Stingl&#8217;s Theorem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Steyn, in the <i>Chicago Sun-Times<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/steyn\/cst-edt-steyn12.html\" target=\"new\">says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At Thursday&#8217;s Democratic Presidential debate, Jeff Greenfield asked the candidates why it was that only 34 percent of Americans identified themselves as Democrats &#8212; the lowest number since before the New Deal. &#8221;You&#8217;re looking at the glass as half-empty, I look at it as half-full,&#8221; said former House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, demonstrating the command of basic math that has made the federal budget what it is. The Democratic glass isn&#8217;t half-empty, it&#8217;s two-thirds empty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kinda proves <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/10\/356\/\" target=\"new\">Stingl&#8217;s Theorem<\/a>, wot?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Steyn, in the Chicago Sun-Times, says: At Thursday&#8217;s Democratic Presidential debate, Jeff Greenfield asked the candidates why it was that only 34 percent of Americans identified themselves as Democrats &#8212; the lowest number since before the New Deal. &#8221;You&#8217;re looking at the glass as half-empty, I look at it as half-full,&#8221; said former House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21934,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/21934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}