{"id":199,"date":"2006-05-14T10:08:21","date_gmt":"2006-05-14T15:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/05\/14\/waiting\/"},"modified":"2006-05-14T10:13:24","modified_gmt":"2006-05-14T15:13:24","slug":"waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2006\/05\/14\/waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">It was a year ago, more or less, that Matt Cooper reported that his source on Valerie Plame was Karl Rove &#8211; actually, 4th of July weekend. It&#8217;s been a long year waiting &#8211; and we still don&#8217;t know if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/051306W.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Leopold&#8217;s recent report<\/a> that Rove was indicted is correct or not. It was like this last summer, waiting for conformation, waiting while Judy Miller hid in jail, waiting for the meticulous Patrick Fitzgerald to act, waiting for Bush and Cheney&#8217;s fibs to be defibbed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Meanwhile, billions have been spent in Iraq. Hundreds have died there. The governments in Iran and Palistine have roared. Al Qaeda has grown in strength. Gas prices have soared. The meaning of America in the world has eroded beyond repair. Judges of questionable objectivity have been appointed. The NSA has become a local KGB.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Waiting is expensive&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Bush and Cheney couldn&#8217;t wait. They were impatient and took us to war based on gross fabrications. They couldn&#8217;t wait to change our country to fit their own image of what they wanted it to be, so they skipped the processes by which we live and just did what they wanted to do.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The rest of us must wait for these slow wheels to bring some justice to these dark days. But I guess waiting is worth it, even if the only lesson is that those wheels are slow for a reason &#8211; a really, really good reason&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a year ago, more or less, that Matt Cooper reported that his source on Valerie Plame was Karl Rove &#8211; actually, 4th of July weekend. It&#8217;s been a long year waiting &#8211; and we still don&#8217;t know if Jason Leopold&#8217;s recent report that Rove was indicted is correct or not. It was like [&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-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","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=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}