{"id":1832,"date":"2005-10-27T12:24:48","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T16:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/a_sign_of_weakness\/"},"modified":"2005-10-27T12:24:48","modified_gmt":"2005-10-27T16:24:48","slug":"a_sign_of_weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/10\/a_sign_of_weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sign Of Weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Miers withdrawal illustrates what <a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2005\/10\/she-needs-to-step-it-up-notch.html\">Ann Althouse said<\/a>:  &#8220;Once people have decided you&#8217;re dumb, pretty much everything you say sounds dumb.&#8221;  Or probably more accurately in this case, once the right wing thinks you&#8217;re too liberal for them, everything you say sounds too liberal.<br \/>\nThink Progress reminds us what the media said this withdrawal says about <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2005\/10\/27\/the-miers-withdrawal-a-sign-of-weakness\/\">President Bush&#8217;s so-called political capital<\/a>.<br \/>\nUnfortunately, the pressure will really be on Bush to pick a judicial crusader.  And as we&#8217;ve seen he doesn&#8217;t even have the backbone to stand up to his own party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/10\/a_sign_of_weakness\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to A Sign Of Weakness\"><p>The Miers withdrawal illustrates what Ann Althouse said: &#8220;Once people have decided you&#8217;re dumb, pretty much everything you say sounds dumb.&#8221; Or probably more accurately in this case, once the right wing thinks you&#8217;re too liberal for them, everything you say sounds too liberal. Think Progress reminds us what the media said this withdrawal says [&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-1832","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\/1832","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=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}