I’ve often wondered if a tipping point exists for Republicans when it comes to the war. Apparently, we’re not quite there yet.<\/p>\n
As of today, Maliki and Bush relations are fraying<\/a>, the stability of the Iraqi government is shaky<\/a>, the American public’s patience is gone<\/a>, and the civil war rages on unabated. Taken together, even Republicans’ confidence is shaken<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Depending on what happens next,” said a gloomy Republican political operative, “this could be viewed as the week the wheels came off.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n “Could be<\/i>“? As far as the GOP establishment is concerned, the wheels are still on?<\/p>\n The right’s tolerance for chaos and disaster sometimes amazes me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve often wondered if a tipping point exists for Republicans when it comes to the war. Apparently, we’re not quite there yet. As of today, Maliki and Bush relations are fraying, the stability of the Iraqi government is shaky, the American public’s patience is gone, and the civil war rages on unabated. Taken together, even […]<\/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-9203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9203","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=9203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}