{"id":696,"date":"2006-09-20T05:35:51","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T10:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=696"},"modified":"2006-12-21T10:05:12","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T15:05:12","slug":"george-bushs-k-street-project-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":"George Bush&#8217;s K Street Project &#8211; Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story of Tom DeLay&#8217;s <em>K Street project<\/em> in which he squeezed corporate America to replace Democrat lobbyists with Republican hacks is now well known. George Bush&#8217;s hacks also got lots of attention when one of them, <em>Heck of a job Brownie<\/em> preened in his new cloths for of a subaltern\u00c2\u00a0while the city of New Orleans washed away.<\/p>\n<p>Now, unsurprisingly, its clear that President Bush&#8217;s defining challenge, the rebuilding of a democratic Iraq, was Katrina squared. The Green Zone was flooded with hacks <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/items\/200609190006\">whose only qualifications were blind loyalty to George Bush.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr. President, you&#8217;ve done a heck of a job. Every dead Iraqi vet thanks you from the bottom of his\/her grave. Ditto the dead Iraqis.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.welty4congress.org\">Welty4Congress.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of Tom DeLay&#8217;s K Street project in which he squeezed corporate America to replace Democrat lobbyists with Republican hacks is now well&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,31,14,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bush-leagues","category-gods-own-party","category-republican-dogma","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}