{"id":2193,"date":"2012-08-25T21:30:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T04:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2193"},"modified":"2018-03-31T18:22:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T01:22:10","slug":"rnc-2004-turning-the-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2193","title":{"rendered":"RNC 2004: Turning The Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing with our RNC 2004 retrospective&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Remember when ol&#8217; Dubya yanked our chain by always saying &#8220;We&#8217;re turning the corner on&#8230;&lt;fill in the blank&gt;&#8221;. Whether it was the deficit, the war in Iraq, economic recovery, cleaning up after Hurricane Katrina, coming out of the housing market collapse, etc&#8230; We were always turning the corner. America turned the corner so many times we kept going in circles in a downward spiral for the next four years.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2195\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=2195\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2195\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2195\" title=\"rncbushesfriends\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rncbushesfriends.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rncbushesfriends.jpg 550w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rncbushesfriends-300x208.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 85vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Bush and his wife Laura point toward the corner America is turning. Appearing on stage with Bush are his old friends, the Deficit, the Iraq Occupation, and Environmental Destruction.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing with our RNC 2004 retrospective&#8230; Remember when ol&#8217; Dubya yanked our chain by always saying &#8220;We&#8217;re turning the corner on&#8230;&lt;fill in the blank&gt;&#8221;. Whether it was the deficit, the war in Iraq, economic recovery, cleaning up after Hurricane Katrina, coming out of the housing market collapse, etc&#8230; We were always turning the corner. America &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2193\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RNC 2004: Turning The Corner&#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":[61,230,60,49,8,3,643,1715],"tags":[578,234,50,22,264,52,147,420,9,115,458,655,21,98,596,19,647,645,654],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193"}],"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=2193"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5944,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193\/revisions\/5944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}