I’m going to be tied up with family all weekend but here’s a collection of must read links:<\/p>\n
Feel free to add your links in comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m going to be tied up with family all weekend but here’s a collection of must read links: CBO: Budget deficit hit record $1.4T in 2009 – Associated Press Proposals to create jobs add up to second stimulus – Associated Press A Nobel for Obama – New York Sun Barack Obama’s peace prize starts a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,26,43,73,7,193],"tags":[1374,813,636,844,745,483,40,562,883,83,307,806],"class_list":["post-2851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-afghanistan","category-economy","category-health-care","category-international-affairs","category-politics","category-war-on-terror","tag-afghanistan","tag-budget-deficit","tag-california","tag-congressional-budget-office","tag-honduras","tag-jim-demint","tag-john-mccain","tag-john-shadegg","tag-nobel-peace-prize","tag-sarah-palin","tag-taliban","tag-tort-reform","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-JZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2842,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/09\/barack-obama-wins-nobel-peace-prize-for-what\/","url_meta":{"origin":2851,"position":0},"title":"Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize… For What?","author":"Jeff","date":"October 9, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm going to start off by saying Congratulations Mr. President... 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