{"id":3966,"date":"2005-04-14T10:09:43","date_gmt":"2005-04-14T14:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3966.html"},"modified":"2005-04-14T10:09:43","modified_gmt":"2005-04-14T14:09:43","slug":"ever-is-a-very-strong-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/ever-is-a-very-strong-word\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ever is a very strong word&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of his aggressive new defense strategy, Tom DeLay sat down with the conservative Washington Times yesterday for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washtimes.com\/national\/20050413-111439-5048r.htm\">an exclusive interview<\/a> yesterday, knowing that the Sun Myung Moon-owned paper would treat him with kid gloves.<\/p>\n<p>There was one exchange that kind of summed up DeLay&#8217;s approach to ethics problems perfectly.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Times Reporter Charles Hurt: &#8220;Have you ever crossed the line of ethical behavior in terms of dealing with lobbyists, your use of government authority or with fundraising?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DeLay: &#8220;Ever is a very strong word.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if his staff has started updating their resumes yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of his aggressive new defense strategy, Tom DeLay sat down with the conservative Washington Times yesterday for an exclusive interview yesterday, knowing that the Sun Myung Moon-owned paper would treat him with kid gloves. There was one exchange that kind of summed up DeLay&#8217;s approach to ethics problems perfectly. Times Reporter Charles Hurt: [&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-3966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966","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=3966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}