{"id":9954,"date":"2023-02-09T12:42:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T12:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9954"},"modified":"2023-02-09T12:42:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T12:42:21","slug":"whats-the-deal-with-the-freedom-caucus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9954","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s The Deal With The Freedom Caucus?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The Freedom Caucus\u2019s obsession with smaller government can border on indifference toward any governing at all. Its members used to prioritize fiscal conservatism, but recently they\u2019ve been criticized for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/04\/29\/house-republican-freedom-caucus-challenges-00023071\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">obstructing just for obstructionism\u2019s sake<\/a>. In&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2017\/10\/john-boehner-on-republican-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Boehner\u2019s words<\/a>, \u201cThey can\u2019t tell you what they\u2019re for. They can tell you everything they\u2019re against.\u201d&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/videos\/whats-the-deal-with-the-freedom-caucus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/videos\/whats-the-deal-with-the-freedom-caucus\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Freedom Caucus\u2019s obsession with smaller government can border on indifference toward any governing at all. Its members used to prioritize fiscal conservatism, but recently they\u2019ve been criticized for obstructing just for obstructionism\u2019s sake. In Boehner\u2019s words, \u201cThey can\u2019t tell you what they\u2019re for. They can tell you everything they\u2019re against.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1825,542,1067],"class_list":["post-9954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-caucus","tag-congress","tag-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9955,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9954\/revisions\/9955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}