{"id":1160,"date":"2012-02-02T20:47:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T03:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2012-02-02T20:47:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T03:47:43","slug":"rewind-punxsutawny-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1160","title":{"rendered":"Rewind: Punxsutawny George"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size-full wp-image-1161\" title=\"BushSOU2005\">It&#8217;s Groundhog Day so we thought we&#8217;d flashback to those halcyon days of the Bush Administration. Remember how the Republicans were always trying to privatize Social Security and Americans threw bloody fits against their efforts? Oh, that&#8217;s right: they&#8217;re still doing it. This photo-toon, from our February 13, 2005 issue, shows Dubya, fresh from his &#8216;mandate&#8217; victory in November 2004, injecting fear into the hearts of millions about the last days of Social Security.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1164\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1164\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=1164\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1164\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1164\" title=\"BushSOU2005\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BushSOU2005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BushSOU2005.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/BushSOU2005-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1164\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Bush gives his State of the Union address on Groundhog Day, predicting six more weeks until Social Security goes bankrupt, while Vice President Dick Cheney and Speaker of the House Dennis &#39;Jabba&#39; Hastert show their approval.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"size-full wp-image-1161\" title=\"BushSOU2005\">\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Groundhog Day so we thought we&#8217;d flashback to those halcyon days of the Bush Administration. Remember how the Republicans were always trying to privatize Social Security and Americans threw bloody fits against their efforts? Oh, that&#8217;s right: they&#8217;re still doing it. This photo-toon, from our February 13, 2005 issue, shows Dubya, fresh from his &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=1160\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rewind: Punxsutawny George&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,49,8,3,111],"tags":[374,50,112,22,9,371,21,98,19,373,372],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1173,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}