{"id":6766,"date":"2013-11-18T11:04:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T19:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=6766"},"modified":"2013-11-18T11:05:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T19:05:27","slug":"the-tenth-life-of-and-obamacat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-tenth-life-of-and-obamacat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tenth Life of an Obamacat"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/\u00a0NRO’s The Corner<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

An Obamcat administration is given nine, but not ten, lives:<\/p>\n

1) The dismal economy
\n2) Guantanamo, renditions, and tribunals that were to be relegated to the Bush-Cheney ash heap
\n3) Fast and\u00a0Furious
\n4) The \u201clead from behind\u201d fiasco in Libya
\n5) Benghazi
\n6) The AP monitoring
\n7) The Syrian flip-flop-flip embarrassment
\n8) The\u00a0NSA\u00a0scandal
\n9) Lois Lerner\u2019s IRS<\/p>\n

The tenth, and one too many, was Obamacare . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/\u00a0NRO’s The Corner\u00a0 An Obamcat administration is given nine, but not ten, lives:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[536],"tags":[12,103,1021,88,901],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-1L8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7586,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/americas-middle-east-dilemma\/","url_meta":{"origin":6766,"position":0},"title":"America\u2019s Middle East Dilemma","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Toppling tyrants is ineffective in the long term without years of unpopular occupation. by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Online Two and a half years ago, the U.S. pulled every soldier out of a mostly quiet Iraq. 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