{"id":574,"date":"2009-04-23T21:36:17","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T21:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=574"},"modified":"2009-04-23T21:36:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T21:36:17","slug":"richard-b-cheney-belligerent-incompetence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/richard-b-cheney-belligerent-incompetence\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard B. Cheney: belligerent incompetence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/04\/the-infallible-executive.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew Sullivan<\/a>, conservative:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is very rare to get someone with the same stratospheric levels of arrogance and incompetence as you find in Dick Cheney. Let&#8217;s go to the tape: A war launched on false premises, a trillion dollar debt in a period of growth, a destruction of America&#8217;s moral standing, the loss of one major city (New Orleans) and the devastation of another (New York City), two horribly bungled military campaigns that have trapped his successors for decades, a political party decimated for a generation, his closest aide in jail for obstruction of justice, his own daughter and grand-child targeted by his own party as second-class citizens in the state they live in. And a war criminal. Did I miss anything?<br \/>\nWhy is this man not laughed off every TV set he walks onto?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Sullivan, conservative: It is very rare to get someone with the same stratospheric levels of arrogance and incompetence as you find in Dick Cheney. Let&#8217;s go to the tape: A war launched on false premises, a trillion dollar debt in a period of growth, a destruction of America&#8217;s moral standing, the loss of one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","p1","y2009","m04","d23","h21"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}