{"id":1545,"date":"2007-04-12T19:10:57","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T19:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2007-04-12T19:10:57","modified_gmt":"2007-04-12T19:10:57","slug":"we_are_governed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1545","title":{"rendered":"We Are Governed By Frat Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bush administration is finally starting to act with the spirit of the petulant, truculent C-minus student that this president embodies. How else do you explain the administration’s revelation to Congress that it “accidentally” lost countless e-mails<\/a> that could shed light on the dismissal of several federal prosecutors? The administration isn’t even trying anymore to disguise its bad behavior. It knows as well as Congress<\/a> that those e-mails were deliberately deleted, but Bush’s operatives must be feeling too embattled to come up with a more plausible excuse. <\/p>\n

Congress will almost certainly issue subpoenas for those e-mails and uncover at least some of them. I’m dying to read Rove’s clumsy and repeated invitations to Harriet Meiers to come on over for a little Merlot and some Idol<\/i>-watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Bush administration is finally starting to act with the spirit of the petulant, truculent C-minus student that this president embodies. How else do you explain the administration’s revelation to Congress that it “accidentally” lost countless e-mails that could shed light on the dismissal of several federal prosecutors? The administration isn’t even trying anymore to […]<\/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-1545","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-oV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545","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=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}