{"id":193483,"date":"2008-12-12T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/12\/when-you-get-blasted-as-know-nothing-ideologues-by-dick-cheney\/"},"modified":"2008-12-12T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T23:19:00","slug":"when-you-get-blasted-as-know-nothing-ideologues-by-dick-cheney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/12\/when-you-get-blasted-as-know-nothing-ideologues-by-dick-cheney\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Get Blasted as Know Nothing Ideologues by Dick Cheney&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/front\/la-fi-autobailout12-2008dec12,0,4653247.story\">we are bizarro world<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Bush personally lobbied recalcitrant Senate Republicans after Vice President Dick Cheney failed to round up support Wednesday during a contentious two-hour meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we don&#8217;t do this, we will be known as the party of Herbert Hoover forever,&#8221; Cheney told them, according to a Senate Republican aide, evoking the president whose inaction is widely blamed for helping trigger the Great Depression in the early 1930s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dick Cheney was right&#8230;I can&#8217;t believe that I said that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official we are bizarro world: Bush personally lobbied recalcitrant Senate Republicans after Vice President Dick Cheney failed to round up support Wednesday during a contentious two-hour meeting. &#8220;If we don&#8217;t do this, we will be known as the party of Herbert Hoover forever,&#8221; Cheney told them, according to a Senate Republican aide, evoking the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1108,998,1020,1015,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-auto-industry","category-congress","category-legislation","category-weird","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193483"}],"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=193483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}