{"id":9033,"date":"2006-11-10T16:33:57","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T21:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/9033.html"},"modified":"2006-11-10T16:33:57","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T21:33:57","slug":"it-depends-on-what-the-meaning-of-provocative-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/it-depends-on-what-the-meaning-of-provocative-is\/","title":{"rendered":"It depends on what the meaning of ‘provocative’ is"},"content":{"rendered":"

For all the pleasantries and polite rhetoric about “bi-partisanship” and “cooperation,” the president has decided to pick two fights<\/a> in the immediate aftermath of his party’s devastating election losses: the John Bolton nomination and legislation to authorize warrantless searches and wiretaps.<\/p>\n

Tony Snow was asked today<\/a> about what kind of message this sends.<\/p>\n

Q Back to the lame duck for a second, there are six weeks — five weeks, or so, more that Republicans are still in the majority on the Hill. Does the President see this period as a time when he should be pushing things like the surveillance measure and the Bolton nomination —<\/p>\n

MR. SNOW: Yes.<\/p>\n

Q — given that it’s the last chance that Republicans have to set the agenda and actually —<\/p>\n

MR. SNOW: Look, again, I don’t think you should look at these as necessarily provocative.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, of course not. All we have here is the most controversial<\/a> U.N. ambassador in a generation, and an unprecedented and legally-dubious power grab<\/a> that empowers the president to circumvent the law in order to conduct surveillance on Americans without a warrant.<\/p>\n

Why should anyone look at these as “necessarily provocative”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For all the pleasantries and polite rhetoric about “bi-partisanship” and “cooperation,” the president has decided to pick two fights in the immediate aftermath of his party’s devastating election losses: the John Bolton nomination and legislation to authorize warrantless searches and wiretaps. Tony Snow was asked today about what kind of message this sends. Q Back […]<\/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-9033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9033","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=9033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}