{"id":4751,"date":"2005-07-20T09:12:13","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T13:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=4751"},"modified":"2005-07-20T09:12:13","modified_gmt":"2005-07-20T13:12:13","slug":"bubble-boy-supreme-court-nomination-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/bubble-boy-supreme-court-nomination-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Bubble Boy — Supreme Court Nomination Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before we begin the debate in earnest over John Roberts’ Supreme Court nomination, and his record, philosophy, and temperament, let’s pause to appreciate the White House’s Bubble Boy policies, which were in full effect yesterday.<\/p>\n

Each of the last four Supreme Court nominations — two from Clinton, two from the other President Bush — were announced during the day<\/a> from the White House Rose Garden. Reporters were on hand for the announcements and, que horror, asked questions of the president and the would-be justice.<\/p>\n

Last night, true to form, Bush introduced Roberts in prime time. If there were reporters on hand, they were completely silent. <\/p>\n

Indeed, the entire day was as carefully orchestrated as, well, a typical Bush event. No questions, no dissent, no problem. Play to the cameras, make the base happy, and throw the opposition off with carefully-coordinated misinformation.<\/p>\n

Just the way the president likes it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before we begin the debate in earnest over John Roberts’ Supreme Court nomination, and his record, philosophy, and temperament, let’s pause to appreciate the White House’s Bubble Boy policies, which were in full effect yesterday. Each of the last four Supreme Court nominations — two from Clinton, two from the other President Bush — were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751","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=4751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}