{"id":3726,"date":"2005-10-27T18:40:06","date_gmt":"2005-10-28T01:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/10\/27\/savoring-victory\/"},"modified":"2005-10-27T18:40:06","modified_gmt":"2005-10-28T01:40:06","slug":"savoring-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/27\/savoring-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Savoring victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThe coolest thing about the defeat of the Miers nomination is seeing neo-blogger Hugh Hewitt get all self-righteous in his whining about how close it brings us to the collapse of civilization as we know it.<\/a> And it’s right for Hewitt to complain, because the Miers defeat (or victory, if you oppose incompetence on the bench as we do) is a much bigger problem for Hewitt and his fellow travelers than it is for Bush.<\/p>\n

For once in his presidency, Bush has refused to “stay the course” when doing so would have meant certain disaster, so one of the biggest cudgels used against Bush by his enemies has been reduced to a wet noodle. We aren’t staying the course in Iraq because that’s the only way Bush nows to act, it’s because it’s the right thing to do. So Bush wins by losing.<\/p>\n

Hewitt loses by displaying the kind of blind partisanship that we’ve come to expect of left-wing bloggers, and that crowd loses on the same count as well.<\/p>\n

And second to the fun of seeing Hewitt squirm is the fun of seeing Kos and his Chief Lieutenant Armando go at each other tooth and claw<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So it’s a good day all around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The coolest thing about the defeat of the Miers nomination is seeing neo-blogger Hugh Hewitt get all self-righteous in his whining about how close it brings us to the collapse of civilization as we know it. And it’s right for Hewitt to complain, because the Miers defeat (or victory, if you oppose incompetence on the … Continue reading “Savoring victory”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Y6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}