{"id":11744,"date":"2010-05-25T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-25T23:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T23:13:00","slug":"call-their-bluff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/25\/call-their-bluff\/","title":{"rendered":"Call Their Bluff!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assembly Member and Attorney General candidate Alberto Torrico has come up with the best advice on dealing with the Republican anti-tax zealots who are threatening to shut down the state unless the Legislature passes a draconian &#8220;cuts-only&#8221; budget. <\/p>\n<p>Torrico basically urged Democrats to call the Republicans bluff. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/05\/torrico-democra.html?mi_pluck_action=comment_submitted&#038;qwxq=5640525#Comments_Container\">http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/w&#8230;<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democrats are unwilling to go past June 30th or July 15th or August 1st with a complete closure of state government. We are unwilling to do that, so we basically go in and negotiate with our hands behind our back.<\/p>\n<p>We should be willing to go and demonstrate to people there are consequences to not saying to corporations we are going to eliminate some loopholes. &nbsp;You know when people will care? When schools go back to session in August and when Democrats and Republicans hear from their constituents, from middle-class families in phone calls like this, &#8216;Where&#8217;s my son&#8217;s bus?&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Back in 1995, Speaker Newt Gingrich and the Republicans in Congress threatened to shut down the federal government unless President Clinton bowed to their demands. Clinton responded, in effect: &#8220;Go ahead, make my day.&#8221; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So the Republicans shut down the government. After two days, the public&#8217;s outrage was so great that they ended the shutdown and caved. I&#8217;ll bet the same thing will happen here. <\/p>\n<p>Torrico is right on target. &nbsp;Let&#8217;s call their bluff. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assembly Member and Attorney General candidate Alberto Torrico has come up with the best advice on dealing with the Republican anti-tax zealots who are threatening to shut down the state unless the Legislature passes a draconian &#8220;cuts-only&#8221; budget. <\/p>\n<p>Torrico basically urged Democrats to call the Republicans bluff. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/05\/torrico-democra.html?mi_pluck_action=comment_submitted&#038;qwxq=5640525#Comments_Container\">http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/w&#8230;<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Democrats are unwilling to go past June 30th or July 15th or August 1st with a complete closure of state government. We are unwilling to do that, so we basically go in and negotiate with our hands behind our back.<\/p>\n<p>We should be willing to go and demonstrate to people there are consequences to not saying to corporations we are going to eliminate some loopholes. &nbsp;You know when people will care? When schools go back to session in August and when Democrats and Republicans hear from their constituents, from middle-class families in phone calls like this, &#8216;Where&#8217;s my son&#8217;s bus?&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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}},"categories":[117],"tags":[1815,23,8793],"class_list":["post-11744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-117","tag-1815","tag-23","tag-8793"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-33q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}