{"id":5044,"date":"2009-07-06T06:42:26","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T11:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5044"},"modified":"2009-07-06T06:42:26","modified_gmt":"2009-07-06T11:42:26","slug":"shelf-life-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5044","title":{"rendered":"Shelf Life Over?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>D&#8217;ya suppose Colin Powell&#8217;s career as every Democrat&#8217;s favorite Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/news.aol.com\/article\/powell-warns-obama-on-big-government\/556058\">might be coming to a close<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Colin Powell worries that President Barack Obama is trying to tackle too many big issues at one time and he offers this advice: take a hard look at costs and consider the additional red tape that will be created.<\/p>\n<div id=\"articleTxt2\" class=\"articleTxt smallText\">&#8220;The right answer is, &#8216;Give me a government that works,'&#8221; the former secretary of state said in a television interview to be aired Sunday. &#8220;Keep it as small as possible,&#8221; added Powell, who said he has spoken recently with Obama and stays in touch with him. Powell, a Republican, endorsed Obama last year over the GOP presidential nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain.<\/div>\n<div id=\"articleTxt2\" class=\"articleTxt smallText\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"articleTxt3\" class=\"articleTxt smallText\">Obama wants to overhaul the health care system and take on climate change while also helping the country emerge from the recession.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If Powell keeps this up, derogatory jokes about black soldiers will suddenly be just as politically correct as jokes about middle-class working mothers and pregnant teenagers are.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scsuscholars.com\/2009\/07\/buyers-remorse-part-n1.html\">KB)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D&#8217;ya suppose Colin Powell&#8217;s career as every Democrat&#8217;s favorite Republican might be coming to a close? Colin Powell worries that President Barack Obama is trying to tackle too many big issues at one time and he offers this advice: take a hard look at costs and consider the additional red tape that will be created. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044","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=5044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}