{"id":4687,"date":"2005-07-14T09:00:50","date_gmt":"2005-07-14T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4687.html"},"modified":"2005-07-14T09:00:50","modified_gmt":"2005-07-14T13:00:50","slug":"the-incredible-moving-goal-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-incredible-moving-goal-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"The incredible moving goal posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newt Gingrich may not be particularly athletic, but you, too, can watch with amazement as he moves goal posts while barely lifting a finger.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/06\/20040610-36.html\">June 2004<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Q: Given &#8212; given recent developments in the CIA leak case, particularly Vice President Cheney&#8217;s discussions with the investigators, do you still stand by what you said several months ago, a suggestion that it might be difficult to identify anybody who <b>leaked the agent&#8217;s name<\/b>? <\/p>\n<p>Bush: That&#8217;s up to &#8212; <\/p>\n<p>Q: And, and, do you stand by your pledge to fire anyone found to have done so? <\/p>\n<p>Bush: Yes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/week_2005_07_10.php#006085\">Yesterday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The president&#8217;s been pretty clear: if somebody&#8217;s <b>broken the law<\/b> they will be fired. The question is whether or not, uh, what Karl did was in any way breaking the law.&#8221; &#8212; Newt Gingrich, NBC&#8217;s Today, July 13, 2005<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The president may have been &#8220;pretty clear,&#8221; but apparently not quite clear enough for ol&#8217; Newt.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my prediction: if Rove and\/or other senior administration officials are indicted, the new standard will become Bush&#8217;s vow to only fire those convicted of a felony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newt Gingrich may not be particularly athletic, but you, too, can watch with amazement as he moves goal posts while barely lifting a finger. June 2004: Q: Given &#8212; given recent developments in the CIA leak case, particularly Vice President Cheney&#8217;s discussions with the investigators, do you still stand by what you said several months [&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-4687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687","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=4687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}