{"id":540,"date":"2006-05-10T14:36:29","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T18:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/10\/540\/"},"modified":"2006-05-10T14:41:53","modified_gmt":"2006-05-10T18:41:53","slug":"540","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/10\/540\/","title":{"rendered":"46% of Americans “not too bright”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Poll\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So, just to review:<\/p>\n

Adminstration fabricates evidence and knowingly misleads the country into a way: OK<\/strong>
\nAdministration tramples civil rights several ways: That’s fine<\/strong>
\nAdministration’s crazy war kills 1000s of Americans and 1000000s of brown people: No problem<\/strong>
\nSupposedly ‘conservative’ Administration cuts taxes and raises spending to result in record deficits even though they started with record surplus: Sure<\/strong>
\nAdministration displays utter incompetence in crisis after crisis: Nobody’s perfect<\/strong>
\nOutrageous graft at all opportunites, particularly by companies that are still paying salaries to Administration members: Why not?<\/strong>
\nAdministration defecates on Constitution, especially separation of powers: Not a problem<\/strong>
\nImperial President commits felonies, but declares that law doesn’t apply to him: I guess so<\/strong>
\nImperial President outs covert agents, endangering her life and those of all her contacts, in a fit of pique: Don’t mess with Texas<\/strong><\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

and so on through all the myriad other things<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

but, “Gas Prices Go Up” and now suddenly it’s not OK<\/a>?<\/p>\n

I hate the world.<\/p>\n

(I did like Alex<\/a>‘s comment when we discussed this: “If only there was a provision in the constitution linking gas prices to impeachment…”)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, just to review: Adminstration fabricates evidence and knowingly misleads the country into a way: OK Administration tramples civil rights several ways: That’s fine Administration’s crazy war kills 1000s of Americans and 1000000s of brown people: No problem Supposedly ‘conservative’ Administration cuts taxes and raises spending to result in record deficits even though they started with record surplus: Sure Administration… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-explodes","category-political","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5UQvw-540","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}