{"id":5683,"date":"2005-10-29T10:45:32","date_gmt":"2005-10-29T14:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5683"},"modified":"2005-10-29T10:45:32","modified_gmt":"2005-10-29T14:45:32","slug":"reason-1-why-bush-will-have-trouble-bouncing-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/reason-1-why-bush-will-have-trouble-bouncing-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason #1 why Bush will have trouble bouncing back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a very brief set of remarks at the White House yesterday, the president addressed the Plame scandal by explaining that he wouldn&#8217;t let it become a distraction from his responsibilities. &#8220;I got a job to do,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2005\/10\/20051028-7.html\">Bush said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This tack is part of a concerted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/5675.html\">strategy<\/a> to help the president weather the storm, but there&#8217;s a good reason <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/10\/28\/AR2005102802150.html\">to question<\/a> whether this will work.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John D. Podesta, who was chief of staff to Clinton, said Bush may be more constrained by his troubles than Clinton was by his. Noting that Clinton&#8217;s approval ratings remained above 60 percent throughout the impeachment battle, while Bush&#8217;s are in the low 40s, Podesta said, &#8220;When Clinton said, &#8216;I&#8217;m going back to do my work,&#8217; people cheered,&#8221; Podesta said. &#8220;When Bush says, &#8216;I&#8217;m going to do the job I&#8217;ve been doing,&#8217; people say, &#8216;Oh, no.&#8217; &#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bingo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a very brief set of remarks at the White House yesterday, the president addressed the Plame scandal by explaining that he wouldn&#8217;t let it become a distraction from his responsibilities. &#8220;I got a job to do,&#8221; Bush said. This tack is part of a concerted strategy to help the president weather the storm, but [&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-5683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683","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=5683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}