{"id":7090,"date":"2004-10-31T18:30:13","date_gmt":"2004-11-01T01:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/10\/31\/for-the-record-2.html"},"modified":"2004-10-31T18:30:13","modified_gmt":"2004-11-01T01:30:13","slug":"for_the_record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/31\/for_the_record.html","title":{"rendered":"For the record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Granted that its clear intent is to show that the Bush administration is a bunch of evil buffoons, this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthesetimes.com\/site\/main\/article\/1539\/\" target=\"_blank\">timeline of goings-on over Dubya&#8217;s presidency<\/a> is useful as we hurtle toward election day &#8212; and, as with me, you may very well look at some of them and shrug, or even say, &#8220;Right on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Still, even if (or particularly if) you wade through the spin, it&#8217;s a good reminder of some of the things Bush and the GOP have done over the last three-plus years.  I&#8217;d certainly forgotten some of these gems (though, no, it hasn&#8217;t changed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/29\/angst_watch_200_3.html\" target=\"_blank\">my mind<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/ballpoint.blogspot.com\/2004\/10\/uneasy-bush-supporter.html\" target=\"_blank\">DoF<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Granted that its clear intent is to show that the Bush administration is a bunch of evil buffoons, this timeline of goings-on over Dubya&#8217;s presidency is useful as we hurtle&#8230;<\/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":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2004"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":91,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/16\/matters_of_degr.html","url_meta":{"origin":7090,"position":0},"title":"Matters of Degree","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 16-Jun-03 11:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"Scott mentions in a comment to a recent post that \"There has never, ever been a more politicizing administration than this one, not to mention a more corrupt one.\" I'm...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics &amp; Law&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics &amp; Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1815,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/25\/things_left_uns.html","url_meta":{"origin":7090,"position":1},"title":"Things left unsaid","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 25-Apr-02 5:55pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So, according to CNN, Prince Abdullah is coming to Dubya's ranch with stern words . 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