{"id":8253,"date":"2006-08-21T10:30:58","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T14:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8253.html"},"modified":"2006-08-21T10:30:58","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T14:30:58","slug":"blair-believes-bush-let-him-down-badly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/blair-believes-bush-let-him-down-badly\/","title":{"rendered":"Blair believes Bush &#8216;let him down badly&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think it&#8217;s probably safe to say that the once-unwavering relationship between the Bush administration and [tag]Tony Blair[\/tag]&#8217;s administration in Great Britain is not quite as strong as once was. Last week, British Deputy Prime Minister [tag]John Prescott[\/tag] reportedly lost his patience and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/uk\/politics\/article1219716.ece\">vented<\/a> his personal beliefs about the Bush presidency, &#8220;summing up George Bush&#8217;s administration in a single word: &#8216;[tag]crap[\/tag].'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Making matters slightly worse, Blair himself seems to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/articles\/news\/news.html?in_article_id=401414&#038;in_page_id=1770\">fed up<\/a>. (thanks to Rege for the tip)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The alliance between George [tag]Bush[\/tag] and Tony Blair is in danger after it was revealed that the Prime Minister believes the President has &#8216;let him down badly&#8217; over the Middle East crisis.<\/p>\n<p>A senior Downing Street source said that, privately, Mr Blair broadly agrees with John Prescott, who said Mr Bush&#8217;s record on the issue was &#8216;crap&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The source said: &#8220;We all feel badly let down by Bush. We thought we had persuaded him to take the Israel-Palestine situation seriously, but we were wrong. How can anyone have faith in a man of such low [tag]intellect[\/tag]?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If I had a nickel for every time I&#8217;ve asked myself that one&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it&#8217;s probably safe to say that the once-unwavering relationship between the Bush administration and [tag]Tony Blair[\/tag]&#8217;s administration in Great Britain is not quite as strong as once was. Last week, British Deputy Prime Minister [tag]John Prescott[\/tag] reportedly lost his patience and vented his personal beliefs about the Bush presidency, &#8220;summing up George Bush&#8217;s [&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-8253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8253","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=8253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}