{"id":65,"date":"2009-03-02T17:17:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T22:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulschwake.com\/paulsblog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2010-03-31T09:37:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:37:35","slug":"the-change-machine-is-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"The Change Machine Is Broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember how they crabbed about cronyism in the Bush administration?\u00a0 Let\u2019s look at Obama\u2019s Secretary of Education.\u00a0 He came from the Chicago public school system, he\u2019s obviously one of Obama\u2019s hometown buddies.\u00a0 But, Chicago\u2019s public school system is one of the worst in country.\u00a0 So why would this guy be best qualified for that job?\u00a0 See first sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Remember how they crabbed about the inept being chosen for positions within the Bush administration (e.g. FEMA)?\u00a0 Kansas is broke.\u00a0 They are giving out IOUs instead of tax refunds.\u00a0 So why would the Kansas governor even be considered for any position in the Obama administration?<\/p>\n<p>Move on, this change machine is out of order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember how they crabbed about cronyism in the Bush administration?\u00a0 Let\u2019s look at Obama\u2019s Secretary of Education.\u00a0 He came from the Chicago public school system, he\u2019s obviously one of Obama\u2019s hometown buddies.\u00a0 But, Chicago\u2019s public school system is one of the worst in country.\u00a0 So why would this guy be best qualified for that job?\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluntforcememory.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}