{"id":15921,"date":"2002-06-07T15:31:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-07T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/07\/as-most-of-you-have-probably-heard-president-bush\/"},"modified":"2002-06-07T15:31:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-07T15:31:00","slug":"as-most-of-you-have-probably-heard-president-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/07\/as-most-of-you-have-probably-heard-president-bush\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"RIGHT\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/bush.jpg\" alt=\"My daddy was president too.\" \/>As most of you have probably heard, President Bush has created a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2002\/ALLPOLITICS\/06\/06\/bush.security\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">new cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security<\/a> encompassing nine departments and about 169,000 employees.  Personally, I think the chances of this department being effective are pretty slim.  There are enough power struggles and turf battles as it is; forcing them into one department is not an easy fix.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, isn&rsquo;t President Bush just the cutest little dickens?  Can you believe this dolt is the leader of our nation?<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-77464807?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As most of you have probably heard, President Bush has created a new cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security encompassing nine departments and about 169,000 employees. Personally, I think the chances of this department being effective are pretty slim. There are enough power struggles and turf battles as it is; forcing them into one department is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/07\/as-most-of-you-have-probably-heard-president-bush\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}