{"id":690,"date":"2004-02-26T18:30:09","date_gmt":"2004-02-26T23:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/rough_draft_constitution\/"},"modified":"2004-02-26T18:30:09","modified_gmt":"2004-02-26T23:30:09","slug":"rough_draft_constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/rough_draft_constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Rough Draft Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Drum points out that George Bush has at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calpundit.com\/archives\/003358.html\">five constitutional amendments<\/a> in the past few years.<br \/>\nI think bloggers can appreciate Bush&#8217;s view of the Constitution.  Is there an issue that&#8217;s hot among the Republican base?  Great.  Simply hit &#8220;Post&#8221; and update the Constitution accordingly.<br \/>\nStrangely, I notice that one amendment is missing.  Where&#8217;s the balanced budget amendment?  Remember when that was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/house\/Contract\/CONTRACT.html\">a winner<\/a> for Republicans?  Those were the days.  Can you imagine the GOP trying to balance out tax give aways and pork barrel spending now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/rough_draft_constitution\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Rough Draft Constitution\"><p>Kevin Drum points out that George Bush has at least five constitutional amendments in the past few years. I think bloggers can appreciate Bush&#8217;s view of the Constitution. Is there an issue that&#8217;s hot among the Republican base? Great. Simply hit &#8220;Post&#8221; and update the Constitution accordingly. Strangely, I notice that one amendment is missing. [&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-690","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\/690","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=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}