{"id":10230,"date":"2007-03-16T14:10:52","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T18:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/10230.html"},"modified":"2007-03-16T14:10:52","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T18:10:52","slug":"anythings-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/anythings-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Anything’s possible’"},"content":{"rendered":"

When ABC News reported<\/a> late yesterday that it was Karl Rove’s idea to fire U.S. Attorneys, it was interesting for a couple of reasons. First, it demonstrated a level of Rove involvement that the White House had previously denied. And second, the White House had argued that the idea originated from Harriet Miers, not Rove.<\/p>\n

Today, the White House started walking away<\/a> from the latter. “It has been described as her idea but … I don’t want to try to vouch for origination,” White House press secretary Tony Snow said. “At this juncture, people have hazy memories.”<\/p>\n

Then there was this gem:<\/p>\n

Asked if Bush himself might have suggested the firings, Snow said, “Anything’s possible … but I don’t think so.” He said Bush “certainly has no recollection of any such thing. I can’t speak for the attorney general.<\/p>\n

“I want you to be clear here: don’t be dropping it at the president’s door,” Snow said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If it’s “possible” that the president himself may have put the purge process in motion, why can’t<\/i> we drop this at Bush’s door?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When ABC News reported late yesterday that it was Karl Rove’s idea to fire U.S. Attorneys, it was interesting for a couple of reasons. First, it demonstrated a level of Rove involvement that the White House had previously denied. And second, the White House had argued that the idea originated from Harriet Miers, not Rove. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}