{"id":2012,"date":"2006-10-05T13:44:44","date_gmt":"2006-10-05T19:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/aggressive-incompetence\/"},"modified":"2006-10-05T13:44:44","modified_gmt":"2006-10-05T19:44:44","slug":"aggressive-incompetence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/aggressive-incompetence\/","title":{"rendered":"Aggressive Incompetence"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>I hope you got to see Speaker Denny Hastert&#8217;s news conference. Several times during the news conference, Hastert insinuated that Democrats are behind the furor over the Foley scandal. He concluded his damage control with a litany of great Republican achievements &#8212; topped by tax cuts &#8212; versus Democrats&#8217; lack of plan (so he says). &#8216;Maybe they&#8217;ve got other tactics,&#8217; he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>You know, I don&#8217;t mind doddering old men who can&#8217;t find their own asses with two hands &#8212; I plan to be one, someday. Everyone experiences moments of incompetence. What I can&#8217;t stand is an incompetent being belligerent. To be inept and attack others is scandalous &#8212; albeit the Rovian Way and the Path of Duhbya. I hope the fall is a mighty one, though I&#8217;m sure these fools will blame everyone but themselves. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you got to see Speaker Denny Hastert&#8217;s news conference. Several times during the news conference, Hastert insinuated that Democrats are behind the furor over the Foley scandal. He concluded his damage control with a litany of great Republican achievements &#8212; topped by tax cuts &#8212; versus Democrats&#8217; lack of plan (so he says). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/aggressive-incompetence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aggressive Incompetence<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012","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=2012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}