{"id":190,"date":"2004-10-12T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-12T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jmatt.net\/?p=190"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:40:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T02:40:37","slug":"illumination-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"Illumination Inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in June, I received a <a href=\"http:\/\/jmatt.net\/blog\/article.php?story=20040630130456531\" Target=\"Offsite\">report<\/a> that seven Bush administration officials were necessary to change a lightbulb.  Today I received a report indicating that number has now risen to ten.  And when I compared the two lists, after eliminating overlap, it actually appears to be eleven.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\nOne to deny that a light bulb needs to be replaced.<\/p>\n<li>\nOne to attack and question the patriotism of anyone who has questions about the light bulb.<\/p>\n<li>\nOne to blame the previous administration for the need of a new light bulb.<\/p>\n<li>\nOne to arrange the invasion of a country rumored to have a secret stockpile of light bulbs.<\/p>\n<li>\nOne to tell the nations of the world that they are either for changing the light bulb or for darkness,<\/p>\n<li>\nOne to get together with Vice President Cheney and figure out how to pay Halliburton one billion dollars for a light bulb.<\/p>\n<li>\nOne to arrange a photograph of Bush, dressed as a janitor, standing on a step ladder under the banner &#8220;Light bulb Change Accomplished&#8221;.<\/p>\n<li>\nOne administration insider to resign and write a book documenting in detail how Bush was literally &#8220;in the dark&#8221;<\/p>\n<li>\nOne to viciously smear #8<\/p>\n<li>\nOne surrogate to campaign on TV and at rallies on how George Bush has had a strong light-bulb-changing policy all along<\/p>\n<li>\nAnd finally, one to explain to Bush the difference between screwing a light bulb and screwing the country.\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in June, I received a report that seven Bush administration officials were necessary to change a lightbulb. Today I received a report indicating that number has now risen to ten. And when I compared the two lists, after eliminating overlap, it actually appears to be eleven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9mOtr-34","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.redhorse.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}