{"id":1050,"date":"2007-03-16T07:33:09","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T12:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/03\/16\/hear-hear\/"},"modified":"2007-03-16T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T12:34:08","slug":"hear-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/03\/16\/hear-hear\/","title":{"rendered":"hear, hear&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<br \/>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/03\/15\/AR2007031501877.html\"><strong>Memo to Gonzales<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">Arrogance has been the most consistent hallmark of George W. Bush&#8217;s presidency. His administration&#8217;s simple philosophy of government has been consistent: We can do any damn thing we want.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">We can invade Iraq. We can blow off the Geneva Conventions. We can listen to your private phone calls, Mr. and Ms. America, and we can read your private e-mails, too. We can arrest anybody we want and hold them as long as we want, and we don&#8217;t even have to tell them why, much less file formal charges or hold a trial. We can even defy the laws of science &#8212; or at least ignore the ones that annoy us, such as that whole &quot;greenhouse effect&quot; thing. We can use the troops for photo ops when they come back from war grievously wounded and then basically forget about them.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">And we don&#8217;t have to explain ourselves, either. The <em>nerve<\/em> of anyone to even ask us. Don&#8217;t you people understand that asking impertinent questions of the White House <em>is exactly what Osama bin Laden wants you to do<\/em>?<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>Sometimes, one reads things that require no comment at all&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memo to Gonzales Arrogance has been the most consistent hallmark of George W. Bush&#8217;s presidency. His administration&#8217;s simple philosophy of government has been consistent: We can do any damn thing we want. We can invade Iraq. We can blow off the Geneva Conventions. We can listen to your private phone calls, Mr. and Ms. America, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}