{"id":1612,"date":"2005-07-18T16:12:41","date_gmt":"2005-07-18T20:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2005-07-18T16:12:41","modified_gmt":"2005-07-18T20:12:41","slug":"ushering-in-the-fall-of-the-house-of-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1612","title":{"rendered":"Ushering in the Fall of the House of Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/HouseOfCards_Mess_Med.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">Never one to put all of our democracy lovin&#8217; eggs into a single basket, no matter how much treason is in that basket&#8217;s &#8220;gate&#8221;, the breadth of scandals finally coming home to roost <i>right now<\/i> on this administration (has there ever been a dirtier one?) is simply remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>While any one of the scandals and investigations listed below would have likely taken down &#8220;lesser&#8221; administrations long ago &#8212; though those administrations, unlike this one, would likely have had some help in that direction from an actual fourth estate &#8212; it&#8217;s remarkable to see how many of these scandals are currently rolling.<\/p>\n<p>To date, we don&#8217;t believe <i>anyone<\/i> has actually been held accountable yet for <i>any<\/i> of the following (with the exception of a few poor sap soldier\/scapegoats from Abu Ghraib &#8212; of course, when the rubber meets the road, the Bush Administration <i>blames<\/i> the troops rather than <i>supports<\/i> them!).<\/p>\n<p>This list is rather extraordinary when taken in total. So&#8230; We leave it to you&#8230; Tell us which scandal and\/or investigation will be the straw that finally breaks this Administration&#8217;s back and why? <i>(The various options presented here are in no particular order)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>1)<\/b> Plame\/Rove &#8220;TreasonGate&#8221; investigation<br \/>\n<b>2)<\/b> Jack Abramoff\/Tom Delay investigation<br \/>\n<b>3)<\/b> Thomas Noe\/Ohio &#8220;Coingate&#8221;\/RNC investigation<br \/>\n<b>4)<\/b> &#8220;Duke&#8221; Cunningham\/MZM investigation<br \/>\n<b>5)<\/b> Sproul &#038; Assoc.\/RNC investigation<br \/>\n<b>6)<\/b> Halliburton\/Dick Cheney investigation<br \/>\n<b>7)<\/b> Downing Street Documents\/Iraq War investigation<br \/>\n<b>8)<\/b> Abu Ghraib\/Gitmo\/Torture accusations\/investigation<br \/>\n<b>9)<\/b> Election Fraud allegations\/investigation<br \/>\n<b>10)<\/b> Jeff Gannon investigation<br \/>\n<b>11)<\/b> 9\/11 investigation<br \/>\n<b>12)<\/b> Combination of all of the above<br \/>\n<b>13)<\/b> Scandal\/investigation we failed to list above<br \/>\n<b>14)<\/b> An as of yet unknown\/unpublicized scandal\/investigation<br \/>\n<b>15)<\/b> None of the above and none in the future<\/p>\n<p>Place your bets in comments and consider it an open thread as I attempt to get the hell outta Dodge for 24 hours or so to celebrate (my birthday, not Bush&#8217;s woes). We&#8217;ll see if I make it out of town or not. Trying to&#8230;If I do, hopefully Winter Patriot will feel free to cover the slack here &#8212; as needed &#8212; while I&#8217;m gone. Peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never one to put all of our democracy lovin&#8217; eggs into a single basket, no matter how much treason is in that basket&#8217;s &#8220;gate&#8221;, the breadth of scandals finally coming home to roost right now on this administration (has there ever been a dirtier one?) is simply remarkable. While any one of the scandals and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}