{"id":2031,"date":"2006-11-10T11:26:26","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T17:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/a-few-thoughts-post-election\/"},"modified":"2006-11-10T12:00:44","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T18:00:44","slug":"a-few-thoughts-post-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/a-few-thoughts-post-election\/","title":{"rendered":"A few thoughts post-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>Heather Wilson is still following the Republican playbook: appear confident when confidence isn&#8217;t warranted, declare victory when it is still in doubt and act outraged when anyone dares to disagree.<\/p>\n<p>Read the insolence from a Wilson spokesperson:<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"highlight\">&#8220;<em>If<\/em> there is an <em>honest and open<\/em> counting, Heather Wilson is going to be re-elected <em>without any questions<\/em>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, the outcome is certain and the data will fit the results. You will not question this! Notice the acid this throws on the process: if we don&#8217;t win, you cheated. Simple. Incendiary. Rovian.<\/p>\n<p>Karl Rove&#8217;s still in power (and in the front row at the Bush&#8217;s press conference). Though Rove is the Architect of Victory in the same sense as Rumsfeld, Rove has not shared Rumsfeld&#8217;s fate.<\/p>\n<p>As for Rummy, did you hear his parting assertion that Bush and his cadre are the few who really understand what&#8217;s going on in this, &#8220;the <em>first<\/em> war of the 21st century&#8221; (the assumptions of that phrase nauseate me). These guys never knew what is going on, just what they wanted to be going on. They are delusional.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CIA-ocracy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Can anyone tell me how many of the top people in Washington are former CIA directors? Seems like a disproportionate number, going all the way back to Duhbya&#8217;s daddy. Sure, CIA people are smart and well-informed. Never mind the secret prisons. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heather Wilson is still following the Republican playbook: appear confident when confidence isn&#8217;t warranted, declare victory when it is still in doubt and act outraged when anyone dares to disagree. Read the insolence from a Wilson spokesperson: &#8220;If there is an honest and open counting, Heather Wilson is going to be re-elected without any questions.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/a-few-thoughts-post-election\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A few thoughts post-election<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","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=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}