{"id":197530,"date":"2008-01-27T22:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T03:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/27\/good-analysis-of-pushback-bushback-against-bush\/"},"modified":"2008-01-27T22:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T03:41:00","slug":"good-analysis-of-pushback-bushback-against-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/27\/good-analysis-of-pushback-bushback-against-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Analysis of Pushback (Bushback) Against Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed that <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5hn-3whd3le0ScEW3eW45MmCqs7twD8UC4N280\">Americans United for Change will be spending $8.5 million on ads to keep Bush&#8217;s approval numbers down for the rest of his term<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My first reaction was that this was a waste of money, public disapproval has never prevented Bush from doing the wrong thing.  After all, he has a year left, and who cares.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Benen, of the Carpetbagger, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14339.html#more-14339\">sets me right<\/a>, and he makes the point that the Republicans have welded themselves to Bush for at least this election cycle, and they won&#8217;t begin to extricate themselves from his toxic embrace until after tie 2008 elections.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true, the weaker Bush is, weaker &#8216;Phants are, and there is this little bon mot of Mr. Benen.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>And, one assumes, if John McCain gets the Republican nomination, this initiative, coupled with a ubiquitous picture of McCain hugging Bush, should help tilt the scales a little.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>True.<\/p>\n<p>I just wish that I hadn&#8217;t been drinking when I read that.  Steve Benen ows me a screen cleaner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed that Americans United for Change will be spending $8.5 million on ads to keep Bush&#8217;s approval numbers down for the rest of his term. My first reaction was that this was a waste of money, public disapproval has never prevented Bush from doing the wrong thing. After all, he has a year left, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,1064,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-media","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197530"}],"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=197530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}