A few things to mention this morning…<\/p>\n
First, as some of you might have noticed over the weekend, I’m filling in for Kevin Drum at Washington Monthly this week. My plan is to keep up a pretty normal schedule: I’ll still post the usual amount of content here; I’ll still be chipping in at the Daou Report; and I’ll post plenty of fresh content over at the Washington Monthly. In a couple of instances, there may be a few posts that I publish there and not here, but only because I’ve covered the topic here very recently and don’t want to be redundant.<\/p>\n
Second, I’m delighted at the initial feedback I’ve received about the contest idea about ranking Bush’s biggest whoppers in a March-Madness style competition. (I’m thinking about calling it “Mendacity Madness,” but I’m open to suggestion.) I’m still working on the logistics, but the nominations have been great so far. If you missed it, I talked about the contest last Thursday<\/a>. If you have a few favorite Bush lies that haven’t already been nomination, feel free to add them here, there<\/a>, or send them in via email.<\/p>\n Also, I have a doctor’s appointment this morning that might affect the posting schedule a little, if at all. I plan to make it up as the day goes on.<\/p>\n And now, back to the news….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few things to mention this morning… First, as some of you might have noticed over the weekend, I’m filling in for Kevin Drum at Washington Monthly this week. My plan is to keep up a pretty normal schedule: I’ll still post the usual amount of content here; I’ll still be chipping in at the […]<\/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-7590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7590","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=7590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}