{"id":1404,"date":"2005-01-13T18:10:34","date_gmt":"2005-01-13T23:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/01\/kicking_the_can\/"},"modified":"2005-01-13T18:10:34","modified_gmt":"2005-01-13T23:10:34","slug":"kicking_the_can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/01\/kicking_the_can\/","title":{"rendered":"Kicking The Can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2005\/01\/20050113-5.html\">Vice President Cheney<\/a> today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, the year 2018 may seem like a long way off, and in politics there is always a temptation to kick the can down the road &#8212; hoping that long-term problems might simply disappear, or leaving them for someone else to worry about. That is not how President Bush views his job. As he&#8217;s said many times, he ran for the presidency to confront big challenges, not to pass them along to future Presidents and future Congresses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes indeed.  We wouldn&#8217;t want leaders who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toptips.com\/debtclock.html\">passed long-term problems off for someone else to fix<\/a>, would we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/01\/kicking_the_can\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Kicking The Can\"><p>Vice President Cheney today: Now, the year 2018 may seem like a long way off, and in politics there is always a temptation to kick the can down the road &#8212; hoping that long-term problems might simply disappear, or leaving them for someone else to worry about. That is not how President Bush views his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}