{"id":608,"date":"2009-02-10T19:12:21","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T03:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=608"},"modified":"2009-02-12T07:50:29","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T15:50:29","slug":"obamas-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/obamas-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Iraq?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My theory of the failed Bush presidency is pretty simple.\u00a0 Bush spent all his political capital on tax cuts and Iraq.\u00a0 The tax cuts were nice, except that they were accompanied by higher spending.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure Bush didn&#8217;t personally care for most of that spending, but in order to maintain support for his war, he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2005\/0816\/p01s04-uspo.html\">put away his veto pen<\/a>.\u00a0 So, in the end,\u00a0 the cost of the war was not just defense appropriations, but also cash for wood use research and bridges to nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>Obama now realizes that this <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">spending<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123396623933859023.html\">stimulus<\/a> bill MUST PASS.\u00a0 His nascent presidency depends on it.\u00a0 He will sign anything that reaches his desk, no matter what it costs, no matter how <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20090209\/ap_on_go_pr_wh\/obama_economy\">imperfect<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He may end up having to explain why, after spending four times on the recovery what Bush spent on Iraq to stop WMD, we still can&#8217;t find any signs of one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My theory of the failed Bush presidency is pretty simple.\u00a0 Bush spent all his political capital on tax cuts and Iraq.\u00a0 The tax cuts were nice, except that they were accompanied by higher spending.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure Bush didn&#8217;t personally care for most of that spending, but in order to maintain support for his war, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}