{"id":3899,"date":"2005-04-05T10:24:51","date_gmt":"2005-04-05T14:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3899.html"},"modified":"2005-04-05T10:24:51","modified_gmt":"2005-04-05T14:24:51","slug":"maybe-hell-learn-who-paul-martin-is-before-he-gets-the-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/maybe-hell-learn-who-paul-martin-is-before-he-gets-the-gig\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe he&#8217;ll learn who Paul Martin is before he gets the gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bush has a habit of finding uniquely unqualified people to fill administration posts (tapping a man who wants to <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/index.php?p=390\">eliminate the U.N.<\/a> to be the U.N. ambassador, for example), but tapping Pete Coors to be the next ambassador to Canada seems like an almost-comedic choice. (Thanks to B.A. for the tip)<\/p>\n<p>Coors, who lost his Senate race to John Salazar (D) last fall, is one of a few names <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockymountainnews.com\/drmn\/election\/article\/0,1299,DRMN_36_3548789,00.html\">under consideration<\/a> for the Canadian post, which is vacant after former Massachusetts Gov. Paul Cellucci left the ambassadorship last month.<\/p>\n<p>But the amusing part of considering Coors for the job is recalling his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2001.html\">difficulty with Canada<\/a> during campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During a debate, primary opponent Rep. Bob Schaffer asked Coors if [Canadian Prime Minister] Martin was right about a trade issue with Canada.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Paul Martin has suggested that that border be opened again and Canadian beef begin to flow into the United States,&#8221; Schaffer said. &#8220;I&#8217;m curious, Pete, whether you agree with Paul Martin on this matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Coors ambled to the microphone and replied: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know Paul Martin&#8217;s whole position on this issue. I&#8217;m not sure I know who Paul Martin is.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, that ought to help smooth over U.S.-Canadian fissures, picking an ambassador who doesn&#8217;t even know who the Canadian Prime Minister is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush has a habit of finding uniquely unqualified people to fill administration posts (tapping a man who wants to eliminate the U.N. to be the U.N. ambassador, for example), but tapping Pete Coors to be the next ambassador to Canada seems like an almost-comedic choice. (Thanks to B.A. for the tip) Coors, who lost his [&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-3899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899","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=3899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}