{"id":1691,"date":"2005-06-29T10:23:15","date_gmt":"2005-06-29T14:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/winning_hearts\/"},"modified":"2005-06-29T10:23:15","modified_gmt":"2005-06-29T14:23:15","slug":"winning_hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/06\/winning_hearts\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning Hearts And Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Bush, his tank overflowing with political capital from re-election, has been touring the nation for several months with staged events promoting Social Security change.
\nHow’s it been going? Well, to use the administration’s Iraqi gage, he’s making great progress<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The senator in charge of trying to put President Bush’s Social Security ideas into law says his colleagues “all want it to go away.”
\nSenate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley said that despite their reluctance, he’s not giving up on Bush’s top domestic priority.
\n“Nobody really talks too much about Social Security,” Grassley, R-Iowa, said Tuesday. “They all want it to go away. I’m not going to let it go away.”
\nA fellow Republican on Grassley’s committee, which is charged with producing a bill, gave a bleak assessment of the issue’s prospects.
\n“Little more than just talk,” said Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., when asked about the status of Social Security legislation. “I think that people are talking, but nothing’s moving.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s kind of funny that some are trying to blame the slide in American public support for Iraq because Mr. Bush has been focusing on Social Security instead. Guess he’s 0 for 2.
\nKeep hammering away at Social Security, Mr. President. You’re making great progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Bush, his tank overflowing with political capital from re-election, has been touring the nation for several months with staged events promoting Social Security change. How’s it been going? Well, to use the administration’s Iraqi gage, he’s making great progress: The senator in charge of trying to put President Bush’s Social Security ideas into law […]<\/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-1691","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\/1691","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=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}