{"id":5482,"date":"2013-10-05T11:53:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T15:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5482"},"modified":"2013-10-05T11:53:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T15:53:26","slug":"is-the-us-shutdown-really-canadas-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5482","title":{"rendered":"Is the US shutdown really Canada&#8217;s fault?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/anti-keystone-pipeline-billionaire-suggests-stephen-harper-played-part-in-us-government-shutdown\/article14708116\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5483\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Shutdown.jpg\" width=\"196\" height=\"131\" \/><\/a>Here is an interesting theory: that the shutdown of the US government was, at least in part, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/anti-keystone-pipeline-billionaire-suggests-stephen-harper-played-part-in-us-government-shutdown\/article14708116\/\">caused by remarks<\/a> made by Canada&#8217;s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, Harper and his Foreign Minister, John Baird, said a lot of weird things recently, on Iran and other topics, earning Canada the distinction of being labeled a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\/bob-rae\/stephen-harper-un-new-york_b_4010255.html\">right-wing gas bag<\/a>&#8221; by The Huffington Post.<\/p>\n<p>But it was Harper&#8217;s &#8220;we don&#8217;t take no for an answer&#8221; comment concerning the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that prompted Tom Steyer, a liberal-leaning San Francisco billionaire, to suggest that it may have played a part in the US government shutdown. The pipeline, after all, was one of the items on the original Tea Party laundry list of conditions for approving a continuing resolution.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5482' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting theory: that the shutdown of the US government was, at least in part, caused by remarks made by Canada&#8217;s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper. To be sure, Harper and his Foreign Minister, John Baird, said a lot of weird things recently, on Iran and other topics, earning Canada the distinction of being <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=5482' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-politics","category-22-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5485,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482\/revisions\/5485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}