{"id":1072,"date":"2006-09-12T01:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T05:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2006-09-12T01:54:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T05:54:00","slug":"this-post-is-liberal-leadership-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=1072","title":{"rendered":"This Post Is Liberal Leadership Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>-Sure, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20060911.wharper11\/BNStory\/National\/home\">it&#8217;s opportunistic<\/a>. <em>Really<\/em> opportunistic. But I guess it beats a PM only addressing the country to plead for his political life.<\/p>\n<p>-The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20060911.wcalvert11\/BNStory\/National\/home\">deadly dance <\/a>begins. I said all along that the fiscal imbalance\/equalization promises would be the hardest for Harper to keep. Flaherty&#8217;s first budget wrote itself but his second one is going to be one giant headache.<\/p>\n<p>-Leaked polls show Canadians cool to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20060911.wxpoll11\/BNStory\/National\/home\">child care <\/a>AND the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20060911.wxrbudget11\/BNStory\/Business\/home\">GST cut<\/a>. Combined with recent poll numbers, I think this means we can safely rule out a fall election. And maybe even a spring one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-Sure, it&#8217;s opportunistic. Really opportunistic. But I guess it beats a PM only addressing the country to plead for his political life. -The deadly dance begins. I said all along that the fiscal imbalance\/equalization promises would be the hardest for Harper to keep. Flaherty&#8217;s first budget wrote itself but his second one is going to [&hellip;]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}