{"id":1697,"date":"2007-09-17T20:41:31","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T20:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2007-09-17T20:41:31","modified_gmt":"2007-09-17T20:41:31","slug":"too_little_too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1697","title":{"rendered":"Too Little, Too Late"},"content":{"rendered":"
Former Senator Lincoln Chafee has turned in
\nhis GOP membership card<\/a>. In other news, former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan has a
\nnew book out in which he criticizes Bush’s fiscal policies<\/a> as short-sighted and
\nideologically driven. Here’s my question: where were these guys when their
\ncriticism might actually have done this country some good? It’s the silence of
\nreasonable, decent men and women from both parties that has given free reign to
\nthe sycophants and soothsayers surrounding this president, but Republicans like Chafee and Greenspan deserve much of the blame for the current dismal state of affairs. They foresaw the disastrous consequences of Bush’s policies and they cringed at the cult of personality that the president’s followers so fervently promoted, but they said nothing in protest. Even worse, they sometimes paid lip service to the party line for the sake of their own political fortunes. Perhaps I’m naive to expect such courage, but I’m getting tired of all these former administration officials and elected leaders finding their spines after they’re safely esconced in their well-appointed corner offices at some law or consulting firm. The country should come ahead of a book deal.  
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Former Senator Lincoln Chafee has turned in his GOP membership card. In other news, former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan has a new book out in which he criticizes Bush’s fiscal policies as short-sighted and ideologically driven. Here’s my question: where were these guys when their criticism might actually have done this country some good? It’s […]<\/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-1697","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-rn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","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=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}