{"id":1177,"date":"2008-12-10T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2008-12-10T09:44:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T13:44:00","slug":"all-the-blame-none-of-the-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=1177","title":{"rendered":"All the Blame, None of the Credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When gas prices were quite a bit north of $4, Democrats blamed Bush&#8217;s policies.&#160; Now that they&#8217;re down to $1.50, do they give him the credit?<\/p>\n<p>Cue crickets.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another one; when the dollar was tanking against foreign currency, it was blamed on Bush.&#160; But in the past 6 months, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dailymail.com\/donsurber\/2008\/12\/09\/the-is-back\/\" target=\"_blank\">as Don Surber notes<\/a>, the dollar has rallied against many currencies.&#160; Credit where credit is due?<\/p>\n<p>Keep the crickets handy.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, neither of these events may be directly related to Bush policies, but if you&#8217;re going to blame him when things go bad, you should be at least intellectually honest when things go well.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Unless everything is partisan, no matter what it is.&#160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When gas prices were quite a bit north of $4, Democrats blamed Bush&#8217;s policies.&#160; Now that they&#8217;re down to $1.50, do they give him the credit? Cue crickets. Here&#8217;s another one; when the dollar was tanking against foreign currency, it was blamed on Bush.&#160; But in the past 6 months, as Don Surber notes, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doug","category-economics-taxes","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}