{"id":18112,"date":"2012-12-09T12:01:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T17:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18112"},"modified":"2012-12-09T12:01:18","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T17:01:18","slug":"frank-fleming-asks-why-the-republicans-are-so-down-on-susan-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/12\/09\/frank-fleming-asks-why-the-republicans-are-so-down-on-susan-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Fleming asks why the Republicans are so down on Susan Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/opinion\/opedcolumnists\/is_rice_really_so_bad_ysyGWjb8JlTpgxSMMjQPEJ\" target=\"_blank\">genuinely puzzled<\/a> at the Republican stance:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Republicans\u2019 opposition to Susan Rice\u2019s potentially becoming the next secretary of state is pretty hard to understand.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t long ago that Republicans were all for a different black woman named <em>Condoleezza<\/em> Rice taking the same job \u2014 is the GOP just bigoted about the name Susan?<\/p>\n<p>Republicans\u2019 stated objections to Rice make no sense. They complain that she\u2019s \u201cdishonest\u201d and \u201cincompetent,\u201d to which she could easily respond, <em>Well, duh, that\u2019s why I work for the government<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>This idea that President Obama should only appoint honest, competent people is really unfair. The guy is a Chicago politician; he\u2019s probably never once met anyone like that.<\/p>\n<p>Just look at his first Cabinet to see how out-of-the-blue this demand for competency is. He has a treasury secretary who couldn\u2019t figure out how to pay his own taxes. His attorney general leads a Justice Department that somehow thought selling guns to Mexican drug cartels would have good results.<\/p>\n<p>Then there are Obama\u2019s secretaries of commerce, who were supposed to be promoting job creation and economic growth \u2014 who in the world knows what they\u2019ve been up to these past four years?<\/p>\n<p>Really, looking at the administration as a whole, Obama did better than we could have expected by appointing only one czar who was a Communist truther.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s genuinely puzzled at the Republican stance: The Republicans\u2019 opposition to Susan Rice\u2019s potentially becoming the next secretary of state is pretty hard to understand. It wasn\u2019t long ago that Republicans were all for a different black woman named Condoleezza Rice taking the same job \u2014 is the GOP just bigoted about the name Susan? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,57,53,13],"tags":[158,463,517],"class_list":["post-18112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-humour","category-politics","category-usa","tag-barackobama","tag-parody","tag-republican"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4I8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18113,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18112\/revisions\/18113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}