{"id":379,"date":"2006-02-04T17:58:22","date_gmt":"2006-02-04T22:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=379"},"modified":"2006-02-04T17:58:22","modified_gmt":"2006-02-04T22:58:22","slug":"state-of-the-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2006\/02\/state-of-the-union\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It might have been the fever talking but the State of the Union address Tuesday night seemed to me to be just a little bit the other side of the looking glass.  The first 20 minutes on democracy in Iraq?  I&#8217;m gonna be so pissed of Iraq is admitted to the union before DC.  And they say we have no tax base.<\/p>\n<p>It is said that a picture is worth 1,000 words. To test that theory I provide to you a photograph of the Tuesday, January 24 dead-tree edition of <span class=\"pubtitle\">The Washington Post<\/span>.  <\/p>\n<p><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<!-- Begin\nfunction popUpH(page) {\nOpenWin = this.open(page, \"Showcase\", \"toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,resizable=yes,copyhistory=no,scrollbars=yes,width=710,height=610\");\n}\n\/\/ End -->\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"javascript:popUpH('\/woodstock\/weblog\/images\/american-politics_large.jpg')\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"\/woodstock\/weblog\/images\/american-politics.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" alt=\"Front page of the DC edition of The Washington Post, 24 January 2006\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"javascript:popUpH('\/woodstock\/weblog\/images\/american-politics_large.jpg')\">view larger<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe juxtiposition of the smug, &#8220;Who? Me?&#8221; look on Bush&#8217;s face combined with the story about Ford&#8217;s layoffs pretty much says it all for me.  Oh, and let&#8217;s not talk about the $22B USD the Republicans &#8220;saved&#8221; the healthcare industry as a result of closed door negotiations.  Those payments are going to come from somewhere and you can bet it&#8217;s not going to be out of the Pentagon&#8217;s budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might have been the fever talking but the State of the Union address Tuesday night seemed to me to be just a little bit the other side of the looking glass. The first 20 minutes on democracy in Iraq? I&#8217;m gonna be so pissed of Iraq is admitted to the union before DC. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thoughts","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}