{"id":198428,"date":"2007-11-08T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/08\/every-time-that-i-think-that-bush-and-his-evil-minionstrade-cant-do-any-worse\/"},"modified":"2007-11-08T23:56:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T04:56:00","slug":"every-time-that-i-think-that-bush-and-his-evil-minionstrade-cant-do-any-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/08\/every-time-that-i-think-that-bush-and-his-evil-minionstrade-cant-do-any-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Every time that I think that Bush and His Evil Minions&#038;trade Can&#8217;t Do Any Worse&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They exceed the limits of my cynicism.<\/p>\n<p>This time, it&#8217;s a Consumer Products Safety Commission that is refusing a larger budget and staff, and its head taking what are morally, if not necessarily legally, bribes from manufacturers and they are so disinterested in protecting the consumer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/11\/08\/business\/worldbusiness\/08recall.html?ex=1352178000&amp;en=522f93087984b592&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss\">it&#8217;s as if they were dosing the kids with date rape drugs themselves<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They consistently exceed the limits of my cynicism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They exceed the limits of my cynicism. This time, it&#8217;s a Consumer Products Safety Commission that is refusing a larger budget and staff, and its head taking what are morally, if not necessarily legally, bribes from manufacturers and they are so disinterested in protecting the consumer, it&#8217;s as if they were dosing the kids with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,985,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-regulation","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198428"}],"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=198428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}