{"id":8000,"date":"2006-07-21T15:33:54","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T19:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8000.html"},"modified":"2006-07-21T15:33:54","modified_gmt":"2006-07-21T19:33:54","slug":"it-is-absolutely-essential-that-we-stay-the-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/it-is-absolutely-essential-that-we-stay-the-course\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It is absolutely essential that we stay the course&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dick Cheney <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20060721\/ap_on_go_pr_wh\/cheney;_ylt=Aivorfp5t18ZocEnhJz6xyas0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OXIzMDMzBHNlYwM3MDM-\">politicizing national security<\/a> &#8212; it&#8217;s so predictable, you could almost set your watch to it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Vice President [tag]Dick Cheney[\/tag] on Friday pointed to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah as fresh evidence of the ongoing battle against terrorism that underscores the need to keep President Bush&#8217;s Republican allies in control of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This conflict is a long way from over,&#8221; Cheney said at a fundraising appearance for a GOP congressional candidate. &#8220;It&#8217;s going to be a battle that will last for a very long time. It is absolutely essential that we [tag]stay the course[\/tag].&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Truth be told, I&#8217;m delighted Cheney put it that way. If someone likes the way things are going in the world, by all means, &#8220;stay the course.&#8221; The more-of-the-same party wants voters to know that if you stick with the GOP, you&#8217;ll get more of the status quo. As it turns out, I completely agree. Indeed, I want as many voters as possible to hear this exact message.<\/p>\n<p>To borrow a line from <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/print?id=2217935\">Jennifer Crider<\/a>, Iraq is a mess, Osama bin Laden is still free, the Iranians are going nuclear, and the Middle East is exploding &#8212; that&#8217;s the Republican definition of progress in the region? That&#8217;s the &#8220;course&#8221; on which Dick Cheney wants to stay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dick Cheney politicizing national security &#8212; it&#8217;s so predictable, you could almost set your watch to it. Vice President [tag]Dick Cheney[\/tag] on Friday pointed to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah as fresh evidence of the ongoing battle against terrorism that underscores the need to keep President Bush&#8217;s Republican allies in control of Congress. &#8220;This [&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-8000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8000","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=8000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}