{"id":127914,"date":"2015-09-09T20:16:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T02:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/09\/being-the-bush-cheney-administration-means-never-having-to-say-youre-sorry.html"},"modified":"2015-09-10T09:42:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T15:42:32","slug":"being-the-bush-cheney-administration-means-never-having-to-say-youre-sorry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/09\/being-the-bush-cheney-administration-means-never-having-to-say-youre-sorry.html","title":{"rendered":"Being the Bush-Cheney Administration means never having to say you&#039;re sorry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#39;s certainly one trait that President Bush and VP Cheney shared and continue to share: never admitting to a mistake. Even clear mistakes. Even clear mistakes their noses are being rubbed in. When that happens, you simply move to another topic, or else double down.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2015\/09\/dick-cheney-iran-deal-military-force\/404296\/?utm_source=SFG%2B'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/yM7317o8_XA4J5q2plhrhQwY1HULH6i7KoKW8NkaHlxRwt6pM5NPuDvxwDygqxddX4y4dphoRhGlFY5NUhGShz0XjdocvW6le55tdtFVP7wpfKe9c8hvJx2o01df8_IVRHM094Y-2g=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2015\/09\/dick-cheney-iran-deal-military-force\/404296\/?utm_source=SFG%2B'>Dick Cheney&#8217;s Alternative to the Iran Nuclear Deal: Military Force &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe former vice president has proposed an alternative to Obama&rsquo;s Iran deal. It sounds an awful lot like war.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/WqETDaLp92T'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#39;s certainly one trait that President Bush and VP Cheney shared and continue to share: never admitting to a mistake. Even clear mistakes. Even clear mistakes their noses are being rubbed in. When that happens, you simply move to another topic, or else double down. Dick Cheney&#8217;s Alternative to the Iran Nuclear Deal: Military Force &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/09\/being-the-bush-cheney-administration-means-never-having-to-say-youre-sorry.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Being the Bush-Cheney Administration means never having to say you&#039;re sorry&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13413,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/23\/sadly_we_do_know_dick.html","url_meta":{"origin":127914,"position":0},"title":"Sadly, we do know Dick","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 23-Dec-08 3:50pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Dick Cheney gave a farewell interview to Chris Wallace at Fox News (transcript). 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