{"id":5665,"date":"2005-10-28T09:50:38","date_gmt":"2005-10-28T13:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5665"},"modified":"2005-10-28T09:50:38","modified_gmt":"2005-10-28T13:50:38","slug":"when-the-going-gets-tough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/when-the-going-gets-tough\/","title":{"rendered":"When the going gets tough&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/10\/28\/AR2005102800133.html\">Associated Press<\/a>, today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the face of such grim news, Bush is likely to follow the examples of Clinton and other embattled presidents and make a public display of his work ethic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The American people expect me to do my job, and I&#8217;m going to,&#8221; Bush said, shrugging off the &#8220;background noise&#8221; of the CIA leak investigation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/nytimes.com\/2005\/10\/28\/politics\/28leak.html\">New York Times<\/a>, today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Administration officials said that the White House would seek to keep as low a profile as possible if indictments were issued; Scott McClellan, the White House press secretary, did not schedule a briefing for Friday, and Mr. Bush plans to leave in the afternoon for a weekend at Camp David.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A public display of Bush&#8217;s &#8220;work ethic&#8221;? I guess we should be glad he&#8217;s not off to clear brush for another month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press, today: In the face of such grim news, Bush is likely to follow the examples of Clinton and other embattled presidents and make a public display of his work ethic. &#8220;The American people expect me to do my job, and I&#8217;m going to,&#8221; Bush said, shrugging off the &#8220;background noise&#8221; of the [&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-5665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665","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=5665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}