{"id":2788,"date":"2013-08-29T16:48:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T23:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2788"},"modified":"2015-01-14T19:06:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T02:06:34","slug":"some-elephants-do-forget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2788","title":{"rendered":"Some Elephants Do Forget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size-full wp-image-2815\" title=\"redneckmemorylapse\">From the &#8220;You&#8217;ve Got to be Kidding&#8221; file&#8230;According to a recent poll, apparently almost <a title=\"A Third Of Louisiana Republicans Blame Obama For Hurricane Katrina Response Under Bush \" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/08\/21\/obama-hurricane-katrina_n_3790612.html\" target=\"_blank\">30% of Louisiana Republicans think that Obama was responsible for the horrendous response by FEMA to Hurricane Katrina<\/a> in 2005 despite being almost 3 and 1\/2 years before Obama even came into office. And almost 45% aren&#8217;t sure whose fault it is. Only 28% thought Bush was responsible for the lousy response. It appears that certain members of the GOP species (elephantus redneckius) have a truly serious memory problem. Unfortunately, it also appears that Obama has officially replaced Bill Clinton as the new Republican scapegoat for all the woes in the world.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2815\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2815\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=2815\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2815\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2815\" title=\"redneckmemorylapse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/redneckmemorylapse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/redneckmemorylapse.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/redneckmemorylapse-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A couple of Louisiana Republicans kick back and have an intellectual discussion about American history as they see it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the &#8220;You&#8217;ve Got to be Kidding&#8221; file&#8230;According to a recent poll, apparently almost 30% of Louisiana Republicans think that Obama was responsible for the horrendous response by FEMA to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 despite being almost 3 and 1\/2 years before Obama even came into office. And almost 45% aren&#8217;t sure whose fault it &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=2788\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Some Elephants Do Forget&#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":[61,60,49,8,3,994],"tags":[374,50,22,52,683,9,767,768,21,98,596,536,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788"}],"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=2788"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4169,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2788\/revisions\/4169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}