{"id":117,"date":"2006-03-03T05:00:28","date_gmt":"2006-03-03T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=117"},"modified":"2006-03-02T22:28:23","modified_gmt":"2006-03-03T03:28:23","slug":"friday-morning-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2006\/03\/03\/friday-morning-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Morning Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday already?  Hard to believe.  I&#8217;ve gotten used to not knowing what day it is, but now that Marc&#8217;s back on the air (or, back on the computer), I can&#8217;t figure out what the hell time it is.  So, what great revelations will come out about the Bush crime family (thanks Mike) today?  We got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2006\/03\/01.html#a7356\">video proof<\/a> that he didn&#8217;t give a shit about N&#8217;orleans, and then lied about it afterwards (or course, the Republican spin is, &#8220;hey, at least we got him to go to the goddamn briefing!&#8221;). E-mails finally turned over in the Plame case show that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthout.org\/docs_2006\/030106J.shtml\">Rove, Hadley, and Bolton were all in on it<\/a>.  Murray Waas reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/hotstory.nationaljournal.com\/articles\/0302nj1.htm\">Bush and Cheney were specifically told that their justification for attacking Iraq was bullshit<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2006-03-02-ports-poll_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA\">Nobody wants this port deal to go through<\/a>, and even on the F\u00fchrer&#8217;s own news channel, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,186634,00.html\">best he can do is a 39% approval rating<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillnews.com\/thehill\/export\/TheHill\/News\/Campaign\/030106.html\">Republicans are poised to retire from the House<\/a> like rats deserting a sinking ship.  And nobody wants Bush-stink on them anymore.  Hell, and they don&#8217;t even let the <strong><em>bad<\/em><\/strong> news out until Friday night!<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas VonHoffman once got into a lot of trouble on 60 Minutes for saying something to the effect that Richard Nixon was &#8220;nothing but a dead mouse on the country&#8217;s kitchen floor, and the only question is, who&#8217;s going to pick it up by the tail and drop it in the trash?&#8221; Well, if that was the case, then Bush is nothing but a steaming pile of crap on the floor, stinking up the place.  It&#8217;s time for him to go, before somebody slips and hurts themselves. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday already? Hard to believe. I&#8217;ve gotten used to not knowing what day it is, but now that Marc&#8217;s back on the air (or, back on the computer), I can&#8217;t figure out what the hell time it is. So, what great revelations will come out about the Bush crime family (thanks Mike) today? We got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}