{"id":939,"date":"2003-12-05T10:51:06","date_gmt":"2003-12-05T17:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/four-more-years\/"},"modified":"2003-12-05T10:51:06","modified_gmt":"2003-12-05T17:51:06","slug":"four-more-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/four-more-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Four More Years?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Op-Ed Columnist: Looting the Future\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/12\/05\/opinion\/05KRUG.html?th\">Op-Ed Columnist: Looting the Future<\/a> By PAUL KRUGMAN, NYTimes<\/p>\n<p>The prevailing theory among grown-up Republicans &#8212; yes, they still exist &#8212; seems to be that <b>Mr. Bush is simply doing whatever it takes to win the next election<\/b>. After that, he&#8217;ll put the political operatives in their place, bring in the policy experts and finally get down to the business of running the country. <\/p>\n<p>But I think they&#8217;re in denial. Everything we know suggests that <b>Mr. Bush&#8217;s people have given as little thought to running America after the election as they gave to running Iraq after the fall of Baghdad<\/b>. And they will have no idea what to do when things fall apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Op-Ed Columnist: Looting the Future By PAUL KRUGMAN, NYTimes The prevailing theory among grown-up Republicans &#8212; yes, they still exist &#8212; seems to be that Mr. Bush is simply doing whatever it takes to win the next election. After that, he&#8217;ll put the political operatives in their place, bring in the policy experts and finally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/four-more-years\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Four More Years?<\/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-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","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=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}