{"id":8611,"date":"2008-09-22T20:36:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T20:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/william_kristol_a_fine_mess\/"},"modified":"2008-09-22T20:36:14","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T20:36:14","slug":"william_kristol_a_fine_mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8611","title":{"rendered":"William Kristol: A Fine Mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A friend serving in the Bush administration called Sunday to try to talk me out of my doubts about the $700 billion financial bailout the administration was asking Congress to approve. I picked up the phone, and made the mistake of good-naturedly remarking, in my best imitation of Oliver Hardy, \u201cWell, this is a fine mess you\u2019ve gotten us into.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>People who\u2019ve been working 18-hour days trying to avert a meltdown are entitled to bristle at jocular comments from those of us not in public office. So he bristled. He then tried to persuade me that the only responsible course of action was to support the administration\u2019s request.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not convinced.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/22\/opinion\/22kristol.html?ref=opinion\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend serving in the Bush administration called Sunday to try to talk me out of my doubts about the $700 billion financial bailout the administration was asking Congress to approve. I picked up the phone, and made the mistake<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8611\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,149,600,151,599],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-politics-in-general","category-stock-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}