{"id":12662,"date":"2007-08-25T12:10:25","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T16:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/12662.html"},"modified":"2007-08-25T12:10:25","modified_gmt":"2007-08-25T16:10:25","slug":"how-the-grown-ups-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/how-the-grown-ups-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"How the grown-ups talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Guardian&#8217;s<\/i> Ewen MacAskill had a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Iraq\/Story\/0,,2154146,00.html\">good piece<\/a> the other day about the president&#8217;s VFW speech, and included an anecdote in passing that caught my eye.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The speech was aimed primarily at what White House officials privately describe as the &#8220;defeatocrats&#8221;, the Democratic Congressmen trying to push Mr Bush into an early withdrawal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In private, presidential aides walk around the White House referring to &#8220;defeatocrats&#8221;? Seriously?<\/p>\n<p>West Wing conversations now resemble Free Republic threads? I vaguely recall a time in which the political establishment perceived Bush&#8217;s election as the return of the &#8220;grown ups.&#8221; It&#8217;s rather amusing, in retrospect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian&#8217;s Ewen MacAskill had a good piece the other day about the president&#8217;s VFW speech, and included an anecdote in passing that caught my eye. The speech was aimed primarily at what White House officials privately describe as the &#8220;defeatocrats&#8221;, the Democratic Congressmen trying to push Mr Bush into an early withdrawal. In private, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12662","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=12662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}