{"id":1177,"date":"2004-03-31T09:31:21","date_gmt":"2004-03-31T16:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/bush-flip-flops\/"},"modified":"2004-03-31T09:31:21","modified_gmt":"2004-03-31T16:31:21","slug":"bush-flip-flops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/bush-flip-flops\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Flip-Flops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.a.cnn.net\/cnn\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/03\/30\/bush.reversals.ap\/vert.bush.911.ap.jpg\" alt=\"Bush\"\/><a title=\"CNN.com - A look at Bush's reversals - Mar 30, 2004\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/ALLPOLITICS\/03\/30\/bush.reversals.ap\/\">CNN.com &#8211; A look at Bush&#8217;s reversals<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some previous Bush reversals in the face of criticism:<\/p>\n<p>He argued a federal Department of Homeland Security wasn&#8217;t needed, then devised a plan to create one.<\/p>\n<p>He resisted a commission to investigate Iraq intelligence failures, but then relented.<\/p>\n<p>He also initially opposed the creation of the independent commission to examine if the 2001 attacks could have been prevented, before getting behind the idea under pressure from victims&#8217; families.<\/p>\n<p>He opposed, and then supported, a two-month extension of the commission&#8217;s work, after the panel said protracted disputes over access to White House documents left too little time.<\/p>\n<p>He at first said any access to the president by the commission would be limited to just one hour but relaxed the limit earlier this month.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I would add these from the 2000 campaign:<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;The US military shouldn&#8217;t be involved in nation building.&#8221; and<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;I&#8217;m a uniter, not a divider.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No, wait, that last one was simply a lie told to get elected. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN.com &#8211; A look at Bush&#8217;s reversals Some previous Bush reversals in the face of criticism: He argued a federal Department of Homeland Security wasn&#8217;t needed, then devised a plan to create one. He resisted a commission to investigate Iraq intelligence failures, but then relented. He also initially opposed the creation of the independent commission &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/bush-flip-flops\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bush Flip-Flops<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}