{"id":2183,"date":"2007-04-24T01:26:41","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T05:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2007\/04\/heck_of_a_job_g\/"},"modified":"2007-04-24T01:26:41","modified_gmt":"2007-04-24T05:26:41","slug":"heck_of_a_job_g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/04\/heck_of_a_job_g\/","title":{"rendered":"Heck Of A Job, Gonzie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/003079.php\">This<\/a> reminds me of when &#8220;Brownie&#8221; got a vote of confidence:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THE PRESIDENT: The Attorney General went up and gave a very candid assessment, and answered every question he could possibly answer, honestly answer, in a way that increased my confidence in his ability to do the job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Huh?  Was Mr. Bush watching the same hearings that I saw?  Oh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/23\/AR2007042301765.html\">apparently not<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Perino later added that Bush did not watch the testimony but received updates from aides.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That might help explain Mr. Bush&#8217;s bizarre comment.  I don&#8217;t know one could watch Mr. Gonzales claim 70+ times that he couldn&#8217;t remember events related to the US attorney firings and think he did a good job.  Even GOP senators said he should be fired.  But the president seems to be creating his own reality now.<br \/>\nOn another matter, it&#8217;s interesting that Mr. Bush, citing the Virginia Tech shootings, elected not to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.editorandpublisher.com\/eandp\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003574772\">tell any jokes<\/a> at the White House Correspondents Association dinner.  I certainly didn&#8217;t miss Bush&#8217;s comedy, and one can make a solid argument that this decision showed respect to the mourning families.  But this sense of respect stands in stark contrast to the 2004 dinner, when Mr. Bush <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/3570845.stm\">joked about not finding the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction<\/a>.  Thirty-three people died at Virginia Tech; thus far 3,332 Americans have died in Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2007\/04\/heck_of_a_job_g\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Heck Of A Job, Gonzie\"><p>This reminds me of when &#8220;Brownie&#8221; got a vote of confidence: THE PRESIDENT: The Attorney General went up and gave a very candid assessment, and answered every question he could possibly answer, honestly answer, in a way that increased my confidence in his ability to do the job. Huh? Was Mr. Bush watching the same [&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-2183","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\/2183","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=2183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}