{"id":3479,"date":"2009-03-10T09:19:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T09:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3479"},"modified":"2009-03-10T09:19:01","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T09:19:01","slug":"buffett_speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3479","title":{"rendered":"Buffett Speaks Against the Obama Splurge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/blogs\/kausfiles\/archive\/2009\/03\/09\/obama-buffetted.aspx\">Mickey Kaus<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>BUFFETT: &#8230;And, Joe, it&#8211;if you&#8217;re in a war, and we really are on an economic war, there&#8217;s a obligation to the majority to behave in ways that don&#8217;t go around inflaming the minority. If on December 8th when&#8211;maybe it&#8217;s December 7th, when Roosevelt convened Congress to have a vote on the war, he didn&#8217;t say, `I&#8217;m throwing in about 10 of my pet projects &#8230; [snip] &#8230;<br \/>\nJOE: Yeah, but you might&#8211;might not have fixed&#8230;<br \/>\nBUFFETT: But I say&#8230;<br \/><Br><br \/>\nJOE: You might not&#8211;you might not have fixed global warming the day after&#8211;the day after D-Day, Warren.<Br><br \/>\nBUFFETT: Absolutely. And I think that the&#8211;I think that the Republicans have an obligation to regard this as an economic war and to realize you need one leader and, in general, support of that. But I think that the&#8211;I think that the Democrats&#8211;and I voted for Obama and I strongly support him, and I think he&#8217;s the right guy&#8211;but I think they should not use this&#8211;when they&#8217;re calling for unity on a question this important, they should not use it to roll the Republicans all.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/03\/09\/AR2009030903019.html\">Shailagh Murray<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/blogs\/kausfiles\/archive\/2009\/03\/09\/obama-buffetted.aspx\">Mickey Kaus<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>BUFFETT: &#8230;And, Joe, it&#8211;if you&#8217;re in a war, and we really are on an economic war, there&#8217;s a obligation to the majority to behave in ways that don&#8217;t go around inflaming the minority. If on December 8th when&#8211;maybe it&#8217;s December 7th, when Roosevelt convened Congress to have a vote on the war, he didn&#8217;t say, `I&#8217;m throwing in about 10 of my pet projects &#8230; [snip] &#8230;<br \/>\nJOE: Yeah, but you might&#8211;might not have fixed&#8230;<br \/>\nBUFFETT: But I say&#8230;<br \/><Br><br \/>\nJOE: You might not&#8211;you might not have fixed global warming the day after&#8211;the day after D-Day, Warren.<Br><br \/>\nBUFFETT: Absolutely. And I think that the&#8211;I think that the Republicans have an obligation to regard this as an economic war and to realize you need one leader and, in general, support of that. But I think that the&#8211;I think that the Democrats&#8211;and I voted for Obama and I strongly support him, and I think he&#8217;s the right guy&#8211;but I think they should not use this&#8211;when they&#8217;re calling for unity on a question this important, they should not use it to roll the Republicans all.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/03\/09\/AR2009030903019.html\">Shailagh Murray<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,33,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}