{"id":432,"date":"2011-09-16T01:40:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T08:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=432"},"modified":"2011-09-16T01:41:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T08:41:11","slug":"dick-and-dubyas-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=432","title":{"rendered":"Dick and Dubya&#8217;s Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will be the last installment of our Dick Cheney retrospective because quite frankly we&#8217;re sick of him and we want him to go far away, like maybe Iraq. He&#8217;d be greeted with flowers there and he&#8217;d be downright giddy being around all that precious oil. So here is a photo-toon from our May 9, 2004 issue right after Dick and Dubya testified in a secret, off the record testimony before the 9\/11 commission (you know the manure was flying in that meeting). We think this photo-toon succinctly captures the essence of the Bush presidency.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_433\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-433\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=433\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-433\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-433\" title=\"cheneyventriloquist\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cheneyventriloquist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cheneyventriloquist.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cheneyventriloquist-300x281.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-433\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney performed their patented bamboozling act before the 9\/11 Commission last week.<\/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>This will be the last installment of our Dick Cheney retrospective because quite frankly we&#8217;re sick of him and we want him to go far away, like maybe Iraq. He&#8217;d be greeted with flowers there and he&#8217;d be downright giddy being around all that precious oil. So here is a photo-toon from our May 9, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=432\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dick and Dubya&#8217;s Act&#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":[61,8,3,111],"tags":[127,50,112,52,98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432"}],"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=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":439,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}