{"id":63,"date":"2003-01-28T23:02:18","date_gmt":"2003-01-29T04:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=63"},"modified":"2003-01-28T23:02:18","modified_gmt":"2003-01-29T04:02:18","slug":"the-state-of-the-union-undressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"The State of the Union Undressed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bush did a pretty good job and *almost* made the case for war with Iraq.  He failed to mention the idea of going to Congress first *or* working *with* a coalition.  (He said &#8220;lead a coalition&#8221;.  Georgie, we&#8217;re not the only nation in the world that thinks Iraq is a problem.  Let&#8217;s learn to play on a team.)  He talked about the need for new energy sources that are cleaner.  He avoided using the O-word though (oil) &#8212; he talked about liberating ourselves from foreign energy sources. Ummm&#8230; name one foreign energy source that we export in large amounts other than oil.  He talked about environmental regulations, yet he has rolled back quite a few of them.  (To fight this, go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npca.org\">NPCA website<\/a>, click on &#8220;Take Action&#8221; and then click on &#8220;Action Alerts&#8221;.  Do it now.)<\/p>\n<p>Gary Locke, the governor of Washington state, was the Democratic rebuttal (so to speak) and he won as far as selling me on the Dem&#8217;s plans.  The tax cuts aren&#8217;t as deep as Bush proposed but they reach *everyone* and not just the ultra-wealthy.  He actually talked about liberation from foreign oil (which is pretty much the only reason we care about *anything* in the Middle East) and he has a decent track record on the environment.  I have a serious amount of respect for him because he&#8217;s done some good things in Washington, is a second generation Chinese-American, attended Yale on scholarship (i.e. not an entitled person), is an Eagle scout, is the governor of a wastern state (which means that he understood the angst of the West when Bush told us to quit whining and conserve energy during the power crisis), and is really where I am on a lot of issues.  Pity that he isn&#8217;t running for President&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush did a pretty good job and *almost* made the case for war with Iraq. He failed to mention the idea of going to Congress first *or* working *with* a coalition. (He said &#8220;lead a coalition&#8221;. Georgie, we&#8217;re not the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=63\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-11","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}