{"id":387,"date":"2005-07-26T12:54:28","date_gmt":"2005-07-26T17:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=387"},"modified":"2005-07-26T12:54:28","modified_gmt":"2005-07-26T17:54:28","slug":"a-new-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"A New Low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Karl Rove sinking ever-deeper into the cesspool called the Plame scandal, and the Administration&#8217;s would-be distraction, John Roberts, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2005\/072605L.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">stumbling<\/a> over the subject of abortion in an informal meeting with Sen Richard Durbin ((D-Ill.) last week, are any of us surprised that Dubya is planning to attend a high-visibility memorial service tomorrow?<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nAnd who is the memorial service for?  One of the 1,786 US military forces who have died in Iraq?<br \/>\nOh, no &#8211; Bush has never attended a funeral, wake or any other commemoration for those who gave their lives for the greater glory of Big Oil.<br \/>\nRather, he is attending a service for the four Boy Scout leaders who were killed in a tragic accident at this year&#8217;s Jamboree.<br \/>\nTo make political hay from the loss of four nice guys, volunteers who work with kids, husbands and fathers is a new low even for the lowest of the low.<br \/>\nI hope at least one of the grieving widows or children puts the man in his place, but given the circumstances of such a sudden loss, that would be too much to ask, even if the families were ardent non-Republicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Karl Rove sinking ever-deeper into the cesspool called the Plame scandal, and the Administration&#8217;s would-be distraction, John Roberts, stumbling over the subject of abortion in an informal meeting with Sen Richard Durbin ((D-Ill.) last week, are any of us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=387\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}