{"id":14598,"date":"2008-02-15T14:40:56","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T19:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14598.html"},"modified":"2008-02-15T14:40:56","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T19:40:56","slug":"meet-mr-vague-generalities-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/meet-mr-vague-generalities-strikes-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Vague Generalities strikes again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14573.html\">mentioned<\/a> on Wednesday that, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/7502.html\">explaining his position<\/a> on Iraqi reconciliation, John McCain told an audience last year, &#8220;One of the things I would do if I were President would be to sit the Shiites and the Sunnis down and say, &#8216;Stop the bullshit.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As Brendan Nyhan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendan-nyhan.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/john-mccain-pro.html\">noted<\/a>, McCain&#8217;s approach to the debate over surveillance laws is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/14\/washington\/14fisa.html?ref=todayspaper\">awfully similar<\/a>, though less vulgar.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senator John McCain of Arizona, the Republican presidential hopeful, weighed in on the debate. When Mr. McCain learned that the House had voted down a 21-day extension and that the powers were likely to lapse at midnight Friday, he said: &#8220;That&#8217;s too bad. That&#8217;s very unfortunate. It&#8217;s symptomatic of the gridlock of partisanship here in the Congress.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>To break the gridlock, Mr. McCain said, &#8220;people that are patriotic Americans need to sit down together and work this out.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, is <i>that<\/i> all. Why didn&#8217;t anyone else think of that?<\/p>\n<p>Remember, when McCain went after Barack Obama earlier this week, he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2008\/02\/13\/john-mccain-goes-after-ba_n_86360.html\">told reporters<\/a>, &#8220;I respect him and the campaign that he has run, but there&#8217;s going to come a time when we have to get into specifics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The irony is rich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned on Wednesday that, when explaining his position on Iraqi reconciliation, John McCain told an audience last year, &#8220;One of the things I would do if I were President would be to sit the Shiites and the Sunnis down and say, &#8216;Stop the bullshit.&#8217;&#8221; As Brendan Nyhan noted, McCain&#8217;s approach to the debate over [&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-14598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14598","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=14598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}