I’m falling down on the job. My staff of thousands reminds me it’s been a while since I’ve paid My two favorite punching bags met yesterday and proceded to spin like tops. Li’l Shrub Whom to believe? I suppose it’s possible that when li’l Shrub matched biceps with Der I’m falling down on the job. My staff of thousands reminds me it’s been a while since I’ve paid any attention to Gee Dubya Shrub. The reason, easy to understand, may be summed up in two words: Der Gropenfuhrer. Culifornia’s lemmingmeister has loomed so large he’s edged li’l Shrub out of the frame. This morning, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-6n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nany attention to Gee Dubya Shrub. The reason, easy to understand, may be summed up in two
\nwords: Der Gropenfuhrer<\/EM>. Culifornia’s lemmingmeister has loomed so large he’s
\nedged li’l Shrub out of the frame. This morning, however, I didn’t have to look far to see that li’l
\nShrub has managed to edge himself back in.<\/P>
\n
\nbriefed the press afterward with prepared wisecracks about how much he and Der
\nGrope<\/EM> had in common — marrying well, speaking English badly and big biceps. I don’t
\nthink his speech writer intended any reference to family values and concern for the culture,
\nor for physical culture, but there you have it. Meantime Der Grope<\/EM> seemed to
\nget his spin signals wrong.
\nYork Times reported, “little of substance was discussed.” But Der Grope<\/EM> told the
\npress they spoke “at great length about the problems of California.” <\/P>
\n
\nGrope<\/EM>, it was code for comparing the California and U.S. budget deficits. Or maybe it was
\ncode for the
\nother Texas-based corporations. But I really doubt that. A 15-minute one-on-one, plus 30 minutes
\nin the same room with advisers, and another 15 minutes alone together in li’l Shrub’s limo doesn’t
\nsound like a meeting of substance so much as a melding of sweet nothings.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"