{"id":1568,"date":"2004-02-20T11:42:35","date_gmt":"2004-02-20T16:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/02\/20\/plan_f\/"},"modified":"2004-02-20T11:42:35","modified_gmt":"2004-02-20T16:42:35","slug":"plan_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/02\/20\/plan_f\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan F?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re beyond Plan B.  The Bush administration is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A56112-2004Feb19.html\">scrapping its latest plan <\/a>for a transition government in Iraq.  I\u2019m not sure how many different schemes for peace have been tried there, but it\u2019s clear the administration didn\u2019t think very hard about what they could achieve before starting a war.  Can Democrats develop cogent messages that this administration, whether in foreign policy or in domestic affairs, has a string of defeats, strategy changes and dubious predictions?  It seems that since Bush infamously proclaimed, \u201cBring it on\u201d we\u2019ve lost hundreds of soldiers with many more maimed, and the Iraqis dissidents and outside terrorists have been more than up to his challenge.  On the domestic side, remember that promise of creating 2.6 million new jobs.  Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A52737-2004Feb18.html\">never mind<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re beyond Plan B. The Bush administration is scrapping its latest plan for a transition government in Iraq. I\u2019m not sure how many different schemes for peace have been tried there, but it\u2019s clear the administration didn\u2019t think very hard about what they could achieve before starting a war. Can Democrats develop cogent messages that&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/02\/20\/plan_f\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}