{"id":438,"date":"2005-09-05T12:22:33","date_gmt":"2005-09-05T17:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=438"},"modified":"2005-09-05T12:22:33","modified_gmt":"2005-09-05T17:22:33","slug":"win-some-lose-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=438","title":{"rendered":"Win Some, Lose Some"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I was WAY off in my prediction that Bush would nominate Scalia for Chief Justice.<br \/>\nBut two out of three ain&#8217;t bad: thanks to Peter for this little <a href=\"http:\/\/chron.com\/cs\/CDA\/ssistory.mpl\/business\/3335685\" target=\"_blank\">tidbit<\/a> about the only company in the world that can repair a roof or remove debris.<br \/>\nThe third prediction (so far) that came true: Bush did get a bounce in popularity for his fake &#8220;handling&#8221; of the Katrina aftermath.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nIn an <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/HurricaneKatrina\/story?id=1094262&page=1\" target=\"_blank\">ABC News poll<\/a>, <strong>74%<\/strong> of Republicans approve of Bush&#8217;s response, 46% overall.<br \/>\nThat compares to Bush&#8217;s earlier job approval rating of 40%.<br \/>\nBy the way, <strong>48%<\/strong> approve of the Federal government&#8217;s overall management of the crisis.  So, in addition to being stupid, 48% of Americans must be deaf and blind as well.  No offense meant to those who are legitimately handicapped but still have more than two functioning brain cells to rub together.<br \/>\nBig thumbs-down to Verizon for their intrusive Flash ad, which hides part of the story on the ABC News website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I was WAY off in my prediction that Bush would nominate Scalia for Chief Justice. But two out of three ain&#8217;t bad: thanks to Peter for this little tidbit about the only company in the world that can repair &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=438\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}