{"id":190094,"date":"2010-01-08T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/08\/cracks-in-the-republican-facade\/"},"modified":"2010-01-08T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T22:35:00","slug":"cracks-in-the-republican-facade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/01\/08\/cracks-in-the-republican-facade\/","title":{"rendered":"Cracks in the Republican Fa\u00e7ade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dick Lugar just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aFESfOEBmLS0&amp;pos=9\">called out Dick Cheney on his statements about terrorism<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Richard Lugar, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, defended President Barack Obama\u2019s handling of recent terrorism threats, taking issue with former Vice President Dick Cheney\u2019s criticism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unfair,\u201d Lugar said in an interview for Bloomberg Television\u2019s \u201cPolitical Capital with Al Hunt,\u201d airing this weekend. \u201cI think the president is focused.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s either a sign of the apocalypse, or Senator Lugar is thinking about switching parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dick Lugar just called out Dick Cheney on his statements about terrorism: Richard Lugar, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, defended President Barack Obama\u2019s handling of recent terrorism threats, taking issue with former Vice President Dick Cheney\u2019s criticism. \u201cIt\u2019s unfair,\u201d Lugar said in an interview for Bloomberg Television\u2019s \u201cPolitical Capital with Al &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1203,969,978,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dick-cheney","category-evil","category-politics","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}