{"id":240,"date":"2003-06-11T13:44:41","date_gmt":"2003-06-11T13:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/11\/read-my-lips-no-new-texans\/"},"modified":"2007-03-17T07:23:57","modified_gmt":"2007-03-17T11:23:57","slug":"read-my-lips-no-new-texans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/11\/read-my-lips-no-new-texans\/","title":{"rendered":"READ MY LIPS &#8212; NO NEW TEXANS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/top\/opinion\/editorialsandoped\/oped\/columnists\/thomaslfriedman\/\">Thomas L. Friedman<\/a><\/strong>, the NYT columnist that Neocons love to hate (&#8217;cause he&#8217;s so much smarter than most of them) proposes that `<em>Democrats should be asking voters to substitute the word &#8220;services&#8221; for the word &#8220;taxes&#8221; every time they hear the president speak.<\/em>\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/06\/11\/opinion\/11FRIE.html?ex=1370750400&#038;en=8ffd5381a936db63&#038;ei=5007&#038;partner=USERLAND\"><strong>READ MY LIPS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Democrats have to show Bush for what he really is: a man who is not putting money into your pocket, but who is removing government services and safety nets from your life.<br \/>\n(read <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/06\/11\/opinion\/11FRIE.html?ex=1370750400&#038;en=8ffd5381a936db63&#038;ei=5007&#038;partner=USERLAND\">more<\/a>)*<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(*link to NYT website; registration may be required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas L. Friedman, the NYT columnist that Neocons love to hate (&#8217;cause he&#8217;s so much smarter than most of them) proposes that `Democrats should be asking voters to substitute the word &#8220;services&#8221; for the word &#8220;taxes&#8221; every time they hear the president speak.\u00ef\u00bf\u00bd: READ MY LIPS Democrats have to show Bush for what he really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4E3H-3S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}