{"id":2039,"date":"2008-01-29T08:13:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T13:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2039"},"modified":"2008-01-29T08:13:39","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T13:13:39","slug":"from-small-things-big-things-one-day-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2039","title":{"rendered":"From Small Things Big Things One Day Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Reynolds noticed something at the State of the Union; <a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\/archives2\/014648.php\">people &#8211; the President, in this case &#8211; are seriously talking pork<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His actions aren&#8217;t as bold as I&#8217;d like, but still &#8212; back in 2005 when PorkBusters <a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\/archives\/025618.php\">started,<\/a> nobody in Washington cared and members of Congress were bragging about pork. Now the State of the Union leads of with an attack on earmarks, to thundering applause.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thundering applause &#8211; from the pork ranchers themselves?\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t that sorta like Major Renault&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=nM_A4Skusro\">I&#8217;m shocked &#8211; <em>shocked<\/em>&#8220;<\/a> line in Casablanca?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yeah, a lot of it&#8217;s a sham. But hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, and this kind of hypocrisy indicates that the anti-earmark momentum is growing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of these years&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Reynolds noticed something at the State of the Union; people &#8211; the President, in this case &#8211; are seriously talking pork: His actions aren&#8217;t as bold as I&#8217;d like, but still &#8212; back in 2005 when PorkBusters started, nobody in Washington cared and members of Congress were bragging about pork. Now the State of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,20,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-democrats","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}