{"id":2268,"date":"2011-07-14T02:41:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T08:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/?p=2268"},"modified":"2011-07-23T14:36:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T20:36:16","slug":"rick-santelli-bring-it-on-if-not-now-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2011\/07\/rick-santelli-bring-it-on-if-not-now-when\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Santelli: &#8220;Bring it On &#8230; If Not Now, When?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Santelli, who is largely credited with starting the tea part back in the old days before the tea party had lost its teeth, is something of a hero. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s his unforgettable &#8212; and inarguable &#8212; salvo against Barack Obama&#8217;s explicit call to &#8220;fundamentally change America&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zp-Jw-5Kx8k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now he has this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>RICK SANTELLI: You don&#8217;t compromise on principles.<\/p>\n<p>STEVE LIESMAN: So, Rick &#8212; you&#8217;re ready to see the United States &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Santelli: &#8212; Bring it on! Bring it on! Bring it on! Our fearless leader [GE CEO Jeff] Immelt, was on talking about what he perceived as an impediment to creating better jobs and he talked about regulation. Is he against Dodd-Frank?<\/p>\n<p>Liesman: I&#8217;m talking about paying our bills, Rick.<\/p>\n<p>Santelli: You know what, we should pay our bills. We should pay our bills. But the other amount, the 42-cents of every dollar we don&#8217;t have let Congress figure out they made the obligations.<\/p>\n<p>Liesman: The trouble is, there is a time and a place for this conversation and debate.<\/p>\n<p>Santelli: Now is the time!<\/p>\n<p>Liesman: It&#8217;s not when the credit card bill is due.<\/p>\n<p>Santelli: This is the place. We&#8217;re here. If not now, when?! If not now, when? If not now, when?!\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2011\/07\/13\/rick_santellisantelli_bring_it_on_if_not_now_when.html\">Video here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Santelli, who is largely credited with starting the tea part back in the old days before the tea party had lost its teeth, is something of a hero. Here&#8217;s his unforgettable &#8212; and inarguable &#8212; salvo against Barack Obama&#8217;s explicit call to &#8220;fundamentally change America&#8221;: Now he has this: RICK SANTELLI: You don&#8217;t compromise &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/2011\/07\/rick-santelli-bring-it-on-if-not-now-when\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rick Santelli: &#8220;Bring it On &#8230; If Not Now, When?&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3,1102],"tags":[2602,1807,1806,855],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayharvey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}