{"id":7626,"date":"2006-06-08T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7626"},"modified":"2006-06-08T09:32:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T13:32:00","slug":"lets-play-namethatoutrage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/lets-play-namethatoutrage\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s play ‘name…that…outrage’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a fun little game. I’ll give you the quote and source<\/a>; you guess what outrage the person is describing.<\/p>\n

“It’s amazing. Such [tag]incompetence[\/tag] is worse than anything I’ve ever seen in six administrations,” Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, said during a news briefing. “At some point, this administration has got to stop saying we’ll hire or appoint political cronies, but will actually appoint somebody who knows how to make the government work.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Katrina? Iraq? Medicare Plan D? What amazes me is that this exact response could apply to several dozen controversies involving the [tag]administration[\/tag].<\/p>\n

In this specific case, it’s the stunning — and widening — [tag]data[\/tag]-[tag]security[\/tag] [tag]breach[\/tag] now encompassing nearly all [tag]active-duty[\/tag] [tag]military[\/tag], Guard, and Reserve members.<\/p>\n

In the Senate, Democrats renewed their criticism of [tag]Veteran Affairs[\/tag] Secretary [tag]Jim Nicholson[\/tag] and demanded his ouster following the agency’s disclosure Tuesday that personal information for 2.2 million military personnel — not just 50,000, as initially believed — was stolen from a VA employee May 3. […]<\/p>\n

In the House, about 150 Democrats called on President [tag]Bush[\/tag] to request emergency funds to provide free [tag]credit[\/tag] monitoring for the millions of [tag]veterans[\/tag] and military [tag]personnel[\/tag] who are now at risk for [tag]identity theft[\/tag].<\/p>\n

“These records were stolen more than a month ago, and we’re still figuring out what information was lost?” asked Representative Tom Davis, Republican of Virginia, whose House Government Reform Committee will hold hearings today in which Nicholson will testify. “We need to hear a good explanation for why that is.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So far, neither the [tag]White House[\/tag] nor the VA has one. What a surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a fun little game. I’ll give you the quote and source; you guess what outrage the person is describing. “It’s amazing. Such [tag]incompetence[\/tag] is worse than anything I’ve ever seen in six administrations,” Senator Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, said during a news briefing. “At some point, this administration has got to stop […]<\/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-7626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626","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=7626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}