{"id":7756,"date":"2010-03-22T12:31:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T19:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7756"},"modified":"2010-03-26T15:55:30","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T22:55:30","slug":"former-bush-speech-writer-david-frum-its-waterloo-all-right-ours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=7756","title":{"rendered":"Former Bush Speech Writer David Frum: &#8216;It&#8217;s Waterloo All Right: Ours&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/DavidFrum.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">And the far-too-rarely bestowed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">BRAD BLOG<\/a> &#8220;Intellectually Honest Conservative Award&#8221; goes today to David Frum, former speech writer for George W. Bush, for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frumforum.com\/waterloo\">his article last night on &#8220;Waterloo&#8221;<\/a>. Here are a few money quotes:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Conservatives and Republicans today suffered their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThis time, when we went for all the marbles, we ended with none.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nWe followed the most radical voices in the party and the movement, and they led us to abject and irreversible defeat.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nSo today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s defeat for free-market economics and Republican values is a huge win for the conservative entertainment industry. Their listeners and viewers will now be even more enraged, even more frustrated, even more disappointed in everybody except the responsibility-free talkers on television and radio. For them, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mission accomplished. For the cause they purport to represent, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Waterloo all right: ours.<\/div>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 3\/26\/10:<\/strong> Frum is fired by rightwing American Enterprise Institute, where he&#8217;s been employed since 2003, after having the temerity to pen the above. Guess the Right isn&#8217;t into that whole &#8220;liberty&#8221; and &#8220;free speech&#8221; thing as much as they pretend to be. Who knew? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/online\/david-frum-says-he-was-fired-for-writing-his-waterloo-column\/\">Details&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the far-too-rarely bestowed BRAD BLOG &#8220;Intellectually Honest Conservative Award&#8221; goes today to David Frum, former speech writer for George W. Bush, for his article last night on &#8220;Waterloo&#8221;. Here are a few money quotes: Conservatives and Republicans today suffered their most crushing legislative defeat since the 1960s. &#8230; This time, when we went for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}