{"id":298552,"date":"2010-02-09T15:30:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T20:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76203"},"modified":"2010-02-09T15:30:42","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T20:30:42","slug":"mitch-mcconnell-america%e2%80%99s-foremost-counterterrorist-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/298552","title":{"rendered":"Mitch McConnell, America\u2019s Foremost Counterterrorist Agent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m late on this, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0210\/32712.html\">Politico has a piece today<\/a> about Sen. Mitch McConnell&#8217;s (R-Ky.) 2010 legislative\/political strategy, and it involves taking a forceful stand on terrorism against the Obama administration. This must be something like the administration&#8217;s dream come true: The guy not only has absolutely no experience with any aspect of foreign policy and national security, but <a href=\"http:\/\/mcconnell.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?p=PressReleases&amp;ContentRecord_id=a40064f9-c21a-4dca-921e-a40b95ee6dc0&amp;ContentType_id=c19bc7a5-2bb9-4a73-b2ab-3c1b5191a72b&amp;Group_id=0fd6ddca-6a05-4b26-8710-a0b7b59a8f1f\">his recent Heritage speech about counterterrorism<\/a> was riddled with <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/75636\/gop-senate-leader-pledges-to-block-funding-for-911-trials\">so many factual errors and unsupported assertions<\/a> that it called into question whether he even understands the meaning of the word he spoke.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from that, McConnell is a credible spokesman and his strategy is foolproof.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m late on this, but Politico has a piece today about Sen. Mitch McConnell&#8217;s (R-Ky.) 2010 legislative\/political strategy, and it involves taking a forceful stand on terrorism against the Obama administration. This must be something like the administration&#8217;s dream come true: The guy not only has absolutely no experience with any aspect of foreign policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}