{"id":1455,"date":"2007-06-25T22:09:14","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T22:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2007-06-25T22:10:18","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T22:10:18","slug":"ok_this_is_just","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1455","title":{"rendered":"OK, This is Just Plain Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never understood the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/cheney\/chapters\/pushing_the_enevelope_on_presi\/index.html\" target=\"browser\">Administration&#8217;s love for the truly lame and useless fights<\/a> they seem to want to pick with Congress. Someone help me understand what &#8211; in the wide world of sports &#8211; Cheny intends to gain from this doomed, grandstanding bureaucratic move?<\/p>\n<p>There are things worth fighting over, and things which it makes no sense to fight over. Or it does make a certain kind of sense&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody&#8217;s part. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sadly, when they do lame stuff like this, we&#8217;re the somebody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed Liberal is puzzled by Dick Cheney. Most people are, it seems&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}