{"id":11557,"date":"2007-07-23T11:31:55","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T15:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11557.html"},"modified":"2007-07-23T11:31:55","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T15:31:55","slug":"mutual-admiration-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/mutual-admiration-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Mutual admiration society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a week ago, William Kristol wrote a transparently ridiculous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/07\/13\/AR2007071301709.html\">WaPo column<\/a> praising Bush&#8217;s presidency. He began his love letter, &#8220;I suppose I&#8217;ll merely expose myself to harmless ridicule if I make the following assertion: George W. Bush&#8217;s presidency will probably be a successful one.&#8221; And sure enough, Kristol was ridiculed relentlessly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/11467.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/07\/17\/AR2007071701456.html\">elsewhere<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At least one person, however, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/07\/22\/AR2007072201282_pf.html\">really liked it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Bush read the July 15 Outlook article that morning and recommended it to his staff. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>White House aide Pete Wehner calls Kristol &#8220;intellectually independent and intellectually courageous.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At this point, they deserve each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a week ago, William Kristol wrote a transparently ridiculous WaPo column praising Bush&#8217;s presidency. He began his love letter, &#8220;I suppose I&#8217;ll merely expose myself to harmless ridicule if I make the following assertion: George W. Bush&#8217;s presidency will probably be a successful one.&#8221; And sure enough, Kristol was ridiculed relentlessly, here and elsewhere. [&hellip;]<\/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-11557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11557","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=11557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}