{"id":2019,"date":"2004-06-29T10:32:53","date_gmt":"2004-06-29T15:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2019.html"},"modified":"2004-06-29T10:32:53","modified_gmt":"2004-06-29T15:32:53","slug":"maybe-hes-trying-to-improve-his-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/maybe-hes-trying-to-improve-his-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe he&#8217;s trying to improve his legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If accurate, this may be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A13191-2004Jun28.html\">the single most incredible quote<\/a> I&#8217;ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I would not have voted for [President Bush&#8217;s] tax cut, based on what I know&#8230;. There is no doubt that the people at the top who need a tax break the least will get the most benefit&#8230;. Too often presidents do things that don&#8217;t end up helping the people they should be helping, and their staffs won&#8217;t tell them their actions stink on ice.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, any guesses on which radical left-wing Dem would engage in such blatant class warfare?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIt was &#8212; I hope you&#8217;re sitting down &#8212; former senator Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), in a recent interview with Business North Carolina magazine. I know; I couldn&#8217;t believe it either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If accurate, this may be the single most incredible quote I&#8217;ve ever seen. &#8220;I would not have voted for [President Bush&#8217;s] tax cut, based on what I know&#8230;. There is no doubt that the people at the top who need a tax break the least will get the most benefit&#8230;. Too often presidents do things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}