{"id":5347,"date":"2005-09-25T09:19:01","date_gmt":"2005-09-25T13:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5347"},"modified":"2005-09-25T09:19:01","modified_gmt":"2005-09-25T13:19:01","slug":"sunday-discussion-group-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/sunday-discussion-group-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Discussion Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American politics has seen its share of bizarre and unpredictable scandals since the dawn of the republic, but I&#8217;m fairly certain we&#8217;re in the midst of an historic first:<\/p>\n<p>The Republican White House is under a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/news\/0533,waasweb1,66861,2.html\">criminal investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican House leader is under a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2005\/03\/04\/60minutes\/main678234.shtml\">criminal investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And as of this week, the Republican Senate leader is under a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/09\/23\/AR2005092301811.html\">criminal investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>Discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American politics has seen its share of bizarre and unpredictable scandals since the dawn of the republic, but I&#8217;m fairly certain we&#8217;re in the midst of an historic first: The Republican White House is under a criminal investigation. The Republican House leader is under a criminal investigation. And as of this week, the Republican Senate [&hellip;]<\/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-5347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347","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=5347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}