{"id":2704,"date":"2008-06-25T08:14:24","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T08:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/06\/25\/postcards-from-the-kindergarch\/"},"modified":"2008-06-25T08:14:24","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T08:14:24","slug":"postcards-from-the-kindergarch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/06\/25\/postcards-from-the-kindergarch\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcards from the Kindergarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"

From today’s New York Times<\/cite>, and article headlined “White House Refused to Open Pollutants Email”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The White House in December refused to accept the Environmental Protection Agency’s conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be controlled, telling agency officials that an e-mail message containing the document would not be opened, senior E.P.A. officials said last week.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When asked whether this wasn’t maybe a little immature, White House spokesman Tony Fratto said “Nunh-uh!” After trading “Is not!” “Is too!” statements with Helen Thomas for a while, Fratto covered his ears and ran from the room yelling “LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA!!!!”<\/p>\n

White House Press Secretary Dana Perino came in a minute later and said “Are you happy now? You made Tony cry! You big bullies!!”<\/p>\n

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Is it November yet?<\/p>\n

Seriously, the the thing I’m most looking forward to about the upcoming Presidential election is not the chance to implement a saner Middle East policy, or restore our standing with the rest of the world, or even to restore a few of the Constitutional protections that have been stripped away over the past eight years. Those would all be nice, but I’ll be happy just to install an administration with an average emotional age greater than eight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From today’s New York Times, and article headlined “White House Refused to Open Pollutants Email”: The White House in December refused to accept the Environmental Protection Agency’s conclusion that greenhouse gases are pollutants that must be controlled, telling agency officials that an e-mail message containing the document would not be opened, senior E.P.A. officials said… Continue reading Postcards from the Kindergarchy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}