{"id":1005,"date":"2005-10-18T22:11:46","date_gmt":"2005-10-18T22:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2005-10-18T22:11:46","modified_gmt":"2005-10-18T22:11:46","slug":"the_usual_suspe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1005","title":{"rendered":"The Usual Suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day or two after last year&#8217;s election, I told a conservative friend that Republicans now have enough rope to hang themselves.  I&#8217;m astonished that it took them less than a year to oblige.  The progressive media are as jittery as a bunch of kids on the night before Christmas because of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/10\/17\/AR2005101701888.html\">indictments that are almost certainly forthcoming<\/a> from special prosecutor Fitzgerald in the Plame leak.  After living on page 10 in newspapers for more than a year, it looks like this story is about to get the front-page treatment.  Of course, conservatives (who love to decry our culture of victimization but who also cry alligator tears as they bemoan their never-ending persecution) are spinning this any which way they can.  For them, this &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalledger.com\/artman\/publish\/article_27261014.shtml\">criminalization of politics<\/a>&#8221; is the Left&#8217;s desperate ploy to thwart the conservative agenda.  In other words, conservatives are so good at playing politics that the Left has to resort to quaint concepts like &#8220;rule of law&#8221; to derail the conservative Utopia that was this close to being realized.<br \/>\nLet the <em>schadenfreude<\/em> commence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day or two after last year&#8217;s election, I told a conservative friend that Republicans now have enough rope to hang themselves. I&#8217;m astonished that it took them less than a year to oblige. The progressive media are as jittery as a bunch of kids on the night before Christmas because of the indictments that <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1005' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-gd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}