{"id":196100,"date":"2008-05-23T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/23\/the-fall-of-the-house-of-bush\/"},"modified":"2008-05-23T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T22:14:00","slug":"the-fall-of-the-house-of-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/23\/the-fall-of-the-house-of-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fall of the House of Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the subtext to Congress <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/05\/23\/america\/23mexico.php\">making changes to Bush&#8217;s proposed Latin American drug enforcement plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to cutting dollars, some of the money was also conditioned on meeting human rights goals.<\/p>\n<p>I think we are seeing the collapse of political power at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s realized that Bush is a lame duck, and one so unpopular that you <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">want<\/span> to have him campaign for your opponent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the subtext to Congress making changes to Bush&#8217;s proposed Latin American drug enforcement plan. In addition to cutting dollars, some of the money was also conditioned on meeting human rights goals. I think we are seeing the collapse of political power at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. It&#8217;s realized that Bush is a lame duck, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,972,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-justice","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196100"}],"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=196100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}