{"id":7,"date":"2004-08-31T22:22:13","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T22:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=7"},"modified":"2004-08-31T22:22:13","modified_gmt":"2004-08-31T22:22:13","slug":"lets-keep-it-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/lets-keep-it-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s keep it simple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll turn to positive approaches soon, but for now, when discussing Bush I think we can keep it to three simple themes:<\/p>\n<p>1) He&#8217;s reckless. The Iraq misadventure is the main case, obviously. But also the general refusal to accept science.<\/p>\n<p>2) He&#8217;s dishonest. Where to begin? How about the middle class benefits of the tax cuts. OR medicare. OR no child left Behind. Or&#8230; you get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>3) He&#8217;s corrupt. In two senses. His stock sales shenanigans come to mind, but also the way he corrupts the political system with his evil attack ads (e.g., against McCain and Kerry) , and also the way he corrupts government with hiding data (e.g. with medicare) or secret deal making (e.g., Cheney&#8217;s &#8220;energy summit&#8221;). **Tip of the Iceberrg Dept.** When Bush was on board of Harken Energy, he dumped stock just before significant losses, saving him $600,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll turn to positive approaches soon, but for now, when discussing Bush I think we can keep it to three simple themes: 1) He&#8217;s reckless. The Iraq misadventure is the main case, obviously. But also the general refusal to accept science. 2) He&#8217;s dishonest. Where to begin? How about the middle class benefits of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","cat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}