{"id":11445,"date":"2007-08-27T15:36:35","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T22:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/08\/27\/irony-5.html"},"modified":"2007-08-27T15:36:35","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T22:36:35","slug":"irony_5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/27\/irony_5.html","title":{"rendered":"Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bush on the Gonzalez resignation<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“It’s sad that we live in a time when a talented and honorable person like Alberto Gonzales is impeded from doing important work because his good name was dragged through the mud for political reasons,” Bush said from Waco, Texas, where he boarded Air Force One for a fundraising trip.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that “dragging good names through the mud for political reasons” is pretty nasty.  Just ask all those “fired ‘for performance reasons'” US Attorneys …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bush on the Gonzalez resignation: “It’s sad that we live in a time when a talented and honorable person like Alberto Gonzales is impeded from doing important work because his…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13303,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/26\/gonzales_shifts_from_a_co.html","url_meta":{"origin":11445,"position":0},"title":"Gonzales shifts from a confused voice to a whiney voice","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 26-Jan-09 1:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"That's the only way I can summarize former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' recent interview with NPR. 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