{"id":1818,"date":"2005-10-19T00:54:27","date_gmt":"2005-10-19T04:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/the_mood_is_ble\/"},"modified":"2005-10-19T00:54:27","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T04:54:27","slug":"the_mood_is_ble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/10\/the_mood_is_ble\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Mood Is Bleak&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fall <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/archives\/ic\/2005\/10\/18\/103745.shtml\">can be gloomy<\/a>, what with diminishing sunlight and all:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, said he expects indictments this week in the CIA leak case involving White House advisers Karl Rove and Scooter Libby.<br \/>\nKristol said &#8220;the mood is bleak in the White House today,&#8221; and said the environment surrounding the federal grand jury testimony is &#8220;pretty grim.&#8221;<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nAs for what this means for President Bush and the daily working of the White House, Kristol said it is too early to tell.<br \/>\n&#8220;The White House has to ask, &#8216;How do we segregate this?&#8217; \ufffd This is a problem, but the legal system has to run its course.<br \/>\n&#8220;Meanwhile,&#8221; Kristol said, &#8220;the president has to take the initiative on foreign policy and economic policy and sort of set this aside.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder how long it will be before the media starts speculating on Bush&#8217;s ability to &#8220;compartmentalize,&#8221; to recycle a term from yesteryear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/10\/the_mood_is_ble\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to &#8220;The Mood Is Bleak&#8221;\"><p>Fall can be gloomy, what with diminishing sunlight and all: Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, said he expects indictments this week in the CIA leak case involving White House advisers Karl Rove and Scooter Libby. Kristol said &#8220;the mood is bleak in the White House today,&#8221; and said the environment surrounding the federal [&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-1818","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\/1818","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=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}