{"id":193690,"date":"2008-11-23T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-23T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/23\/gail-collins-is-on-some-very-strong-meds\/"},"modified":"2008-11-23T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T20:10:00","slug":"gail-collins-is-on-some-very-strong-meds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/23\/gail-collins-is-on-some-very-strong-meds\/","title":{"rendered":"Gail Collins is on some Very Strong Meds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>gail Collins is suggesting that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/22\/opinion\/22collins.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">George W. Bush resign for the good of the country so that Barack Obama can start implementing his policies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ignoring the precedent, which is <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">very<\/span> bad, that it would set regarding presidents and serving out their their terms, the  idea that Bush <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">would<\/span> resign, when he is already burrowing political appointees into the civil service and creating regulations in order to knee cap him is delusional.<\/p>\n<p>George W. Bush is all about George W. Bush, and he believes that he is on a mission from God (which will hopefully take him to The Hague at some time), and the rejection of ego inherent in such an action, because it <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">is<\/span> an acknowledgment of <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">his<\/span> failure on a spectacularly grand scale. <\/p>\n<p>It won&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>gail Collins is suggesting that George W. Bush resign for the good of the country so that Barack Obama can start implementing his policies. Ignoring the precedent, which is very bad, that it would set regarding presidents and serving out their their terms, the idea that Bush would resign, when he is already burrowing political &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,1182,982,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-george-w-bush","category-stupid","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193690"}],"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=193690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}