{"id":754,"date":"2005-08-01T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T07:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=754"},"modified":"2005-08-01T12:35:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-01T07:35:00","slug":"bush-the-steamroller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"Bush &#8220;The Steamroller&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/08\/01\/bolton.appointment\/index.html\"><em>Ending a five-month standoff over a controversial nomination, President Bush on Monday used a recess appointment to name John Bolton the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.<\/em><\/a>  <em>The move thwarts Senate Democrats who had blocked Bolton&#8217;s nomination in a dispute over documents and accusations that Bolton doesn&#8217;t have the temperament for the nation&#8217;s top U.N. post.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hey look, the Republicans don&#8217;t have the power to make congress the total slave of the executive, but they certainly have the power to make themselves useless&#8230;and Bush is great with rolling right on over the indecisive or ambivalent.   <\/p>\n<p>Thank God we&#8217;ve at least still got a strong willed and independent Supreme Court.  Just kidding, yo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ending a five-month standoff over a controversial nomination, President Bush on Monday used a recess appointment to name John Bolton the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The move thwarts Senate Democrats who had blocked Bolton&#8217;s nomination in a dispute over documents and accusations that Bolton doesn&#8217;t have the temperament for the nation&#8217;s top U.N. <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=754\">Bush &#8220;The Steamroller&#8221;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}