{"id":3513,"date":"2005-02-08T13:56:22","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T18:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3513.html"},"modified":"2005-02-08T13:56:22","modified_gmt":"2005-02-08T18:56:22","slug":"yes-it-can-get-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/yes-it-can-get-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, it can get worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bush White House, first term:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There is no precedent in any modern White House for what is going on in this one: a complete lack of a policy apparatus. What you&#8217;ve got is everything &#8212; and I mean everything &#8212; being run by the political arm. It&#8217;s the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis.&#8221;<br \/> <br \/>\n&#8212; John DiIulio, former Bush White House domestic policy adviser, in 2002<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bush White House, <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory?id=481533\">second term<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>President Bush&#8217;s senior adviser, Karl Rove, will take on a wider role in developing and coordinating policy in the president&#8217;s second term, the White House announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Rove, who was Bush&#8217;s top political strategist during his 2000 and 2004 presidential campaigns, will become a deputy White House chief of staff in charge of coordinating policy between the White House Domestic Policy Council, National Economic Council, National Security Council and Homeland Security Council.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, apparently what&#8217;s really needed at the White House right now is for Karl Rove to get <i>more<\/i> power.<\/p>\n<p>Be afraid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush White House, first term: &#8220;There is no precedent in any modern White House for what is going on in this one: a complete lack of a policy apparatus. What you&#8217;ve got is everything &#8212; and I mean everything &#8212; being run by the political arm. It&#8217;s the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis.&#8221; &#8212; John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513","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=3513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}