{"id":11001,"date":"2007-06-03T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11001.html"},"modified":"2007-06-03T12:00:28","modified_gmt":"2007-06-03T16:00:28","slug":"i-think-weve-had-a-very-great-week-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/i-think-weve-had-a-very-great-week-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I think we’ve had a very great week this week’"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve reached an entertaining point in Bush’s presidency — normal weeks are now newsworthy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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For a lame duck, President Bush looked remarkably spry last week, announcing a series of policy initiatives that caught many in Washington off guard. […]<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Bush announced new sanctions against Sudan and a nominee for World Bank president who was quickly embraced by both parties and allies around the world.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the president announced a summit with Russian President Vladimir V. Putin and an initiative that he said would double spending on AIDS prevention in Africa.<\/p>\n

And on Thursday, Bush announced a new effort against global warming, saying he would lead a push to get the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gases to commit to cutting back.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Even if we put aside the merit of these various proposals and nominations, in most presidencies, this would generally be characterized as a normal<\/i> week. The White House talked up a few policy initiatives, engaged in a little foreign affairs, and offered a World Bank nominee. Seeing this, DC is suddenly caught “off guard.” The president now appears “remarkably spry.” Why? Because the Bush gang managed to go a few days without a colossal screw-up or major new scandal.<\/p>\n

“I think we’ve had a very great week this week in announcing initiatives that the president has been building on over his time here at the White House,” spokesperson Dana Perino said Friday.<\/p>\n

Talk about your soft bigotry of low expectations, Bush and his team now congratulate themselves for Basic Governing 101. It’s kind of sad, really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve reached an entertaining point in Bush’s presidency — normal weeks are now newsworthy. For a lame duck, President Bush looked remarkably spry last week, announcing a series of policy initiatives that caught many in Washington off guard. […] On Tuesday, Bush announced new sanctions against Sudan and a nominee for World Bank president who […]<\/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-11001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001","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=11001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}