{"id":946,"date":"2004-05-16T02:14:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-16T02:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=946"},"modified":"2018-08-13T18:33:56","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T23:33:56","slug":"946","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/16\/946\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not a Flip Flop If You Neither Flip Nor Flop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/best\/?id=110005086\" target=\"new\">Best of the Web Today<\/a> pointed to a <i>New York Post<\/i> story wherein John F&#8217;n Kerry <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/nationalnews\/20890.htm\" target=\"new\">says he&#8217;ll <b>support<\/b> Bush&#8217;s proposal for more spending on Iraq<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John Kerry yesterday said he&#8217;ll back President Bush&#8217;s call for $25 billion in extra funds to support U.S. troops in Iraq, after taking lots of heat for voting against $87 billion for the troops last fall. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The situation in Iraq has deteriorated far beyond what the [Bush] administration anticipated. This money is urgently needed and it is completely focused on the needs of our troops,&#8221; Kerry said in a statement. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note, however, Kerry has not affirmed that he will bother showing up in the Senate to actually cast a vote on it.  Working in the Senate is the job for which American taxpayers employ Kerry at a salary of over $150,000 a year, but for which Senator Kerry has been calling in sick for much of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best of the Web Today pointed to a New York Post story wherein John F&#8217;n Kerry says he&#8217;ll support Bush&#8217;s proposal for more spending on Iraq: John Kerry yesterday said he&#8217;ll back President Bush&#8217;s call for $25 billion in extra funds to support U.S. troops in Iraq, after taking lots of heat for voting against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23316,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/23316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}