{"id":567,"date":"2004-08-14T20:57:26","date_gmt":"2004-08-14T20:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=567"},"modified":"2004-08-14T20:57:26","modified_gmt":"2004-08-14T20:57:26","slug":"gag_order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=567","title":{"rendered":"Gag Order"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the points Edwards made in his speech last night was how the Bush tax cuts have favored the nation’s wealthy<\/a>. I expect this to be a major issue in the debates. One article I read presented the following scenario: Bush’s tax cuts have benefited a lot of wealthy Democrats, enabling them to contribute more money to Kerry and left-leaning 527s. Wouldn’t it be ironic if Bush’s tax cuts indirectly contributed to his own defeat?
\nI got home last night in time to watch Katie Couric and Bob Costas jabber over Björk’s entire performance at the Olympic opening ceremonies. Philistines. I wish there was a channel where you could watch the Games without any inane narration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the points Edwards made in his speech last night was how the Bush tax cuts have favored the nation’s wealthy. I expect this to be a major issue in the debates. One article I read presented the following scenario: Bush’s tax cuts have benefited a lot of wealthy Democrats, enabling them to contribute […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-567","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-99","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","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=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}