{"id":1215,"date":"2006-05-18T21:41:49","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T21:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2006-05-18T21:41:49","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T21:41:49","slug":"dark_days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1215","title":{"rendered":"Dark Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mainstream media isn&#8217;t touching this story, but a few progressive blogs are reporting that <a href=\"http:\/\/talkleft.com\/new_archives\/014875.html\">Karl Rove may be indicted Friday<\/a>.  Could be true, could be a lot of smoke.  An indictment might be enough to sink the President&#8217;s poll numbers into the high 20s.  Not that this President needs much help in becoming ever more unpopular.  The story about phone companies collaborating with the NSA&#8217;s secret effort to construct a massive database of Americans&#8217; calling records isn&#8217;t likely to go away soon, particularly in light of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/POLITICS\/05\/16\/NSA.suit\/index.html\">federal lawsuit filed against some of the participating telecoms<\/a> (kudos, by the way, to my regional Bell, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/business\/ci_3827036\">Qwest, for telling the NSA to screw off<\/a>).  Iraq is still a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20060519\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/iraq;_ylt=AuTsFrzFM8NyStC1._OLXA8LewgF;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--\">complete mess<\/a>.  Gas prices are <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2006\/05\/18\/news\/economy\/retail_gas\/?cnn=yes\">still high<\/a>.<br \/>\nIf there&#8217;s any good news to be had, it&#8217;s that Americans seem to be growing weary of this Administration.   These <a href=\"http:\/\/img218.imageshack.us\/my.php?image=may061lz.gif\">two<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/img258.imageshack.us\/my.php?image=may3fh.gif\">maps<\/a> compare Bush&#8217;s current approval ratings with those of a year ago.  I&#8217;m still not confident that we can capture either the House or the Senate in the fall, but watching this country come to its senses gives me a total case of the warm fuzzies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mainstream media isn&#8217;t touching this story, but a few progressive blogs are reporting that Karl Rove may be indicted Friday. Could be true, could be a lot of smoke. An indictment might be enough to sink the President&#8217;s poll numbers into the high 20s. Not that this President needs much help in becoming ever <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1215' 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-1215","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-jB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","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=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}