{"id":5405,"date":"2011-08-01T12:02:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T17:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/?p=5405"},"modified":"2011-08-01T12:29:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T17:29:31","slug":"presidents-and-kings-speak-out-on-debt-ceiling-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2011\/08\/01\/uncategorized\/presidents-and-kings-speak-out-on-debt-ceiling-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidents and Kings Speak Out on Debt Ceiling Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FRAMINGHAM, MA<\/strong> - With no final vote having taken place, and no actual legislation enacted, some camps are claiming victory, some decrying losses and most just knocking the process of raising the nation's debt ceiling so the country can continue to pay its bills.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama released a 2 minute, 20 second YouTube video with his thoughts on the agreement the two major political parties have made.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Obama&#039;s Message on the Debt Agreement\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y82n1vSM4v0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There <em>is<\/em> still a slight chance that a Congressman or State Representative, possibly from the Tea Party -- or even a dissenting<!--more--> Democrat or Republican could attempt a filibuster when the actual votes are taken in Congress, derailing the vote and plunging the country back into economic uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>A rare <em>tweet<\/em> from former Framingham Town Manager, George King Jr. might have summed it up best-<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 8px auto; width: 480px; border: 1px solid #ffffe0; display: block; line-height: 15px; position: relative; font-size: 15px; color: #333333; text-align: left; background: #e0e0ff; font-family: Helvetica, Arial;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.framingham.com\/images\/twitter\/GeorgePKingJr.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><a style=\"font: Helvetica 1.1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/GeorgePKingJr\">GeorgePKingJr<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<small>George King<\/small><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 8px; font: Helvetica 1.1em; line-height: 15px;\">Kind of a sad night for the country. The best description I have heard is \"hostage politics\".<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>What are <em>your<\/em> thoughts on the compromise agreement, (or the process) ?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Use the comment box below to throw your two-cents into the discussion -- it appears we need every penny we can scrape up!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRAMINGHAM, MA &#8211; With no final vote having taken place, and no actual legislation enacted, some camps are claiming victory, some decrying losses and most just knocking the process of raising the nation&#8217;s debt ceiling so the country can continue to pay its bills. President Obama released a 2 minute, 20 second YouTube video with his thoughts&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2011\/08\/01\/uncategorized\/presidents-and-kings-speak-out-on-debt-ceiling-issue\/\">[read more]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1],"tags":[2462,2490,2488,2491,200,420,202,23,201,1319,2489,2492],"class_list":["post-5405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-uncategorized","tag-august-2011","tag-congress","tag-congressman","tag-debt-ceiling","tag-democrat","tag-george-king","tag-gop","tag-obama","tag-republican","tag-state-rep","tag-state-representative","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5405"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5417,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5405\/revisions\/5417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}