{"id":1022,"date":"2007-10-27T20:38:45","date_gmt":"2007-10-28T03:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2007-12-05T17:58:18","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T00:46:18","slug":"the-three-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1022","title":{"rendered":"The Three Surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2176522\/nav\/fix\/\">Mickey Kaus writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Will three surges late in his term salavage Bush&#8217;s presidency? <strong>1)<\/strong> Petraeus&#8217; &#8216;surge&#8217; in<strong> Iraq<\/strong>; <strong>2) <\/strong>Bernanke&#8217;s rate-cutting <strong>liquidity surge <\/strong>to prevent the economy from sliding into recession; <strong>3) <\/strong>The new <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/headline\/metro\/5247361.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>border enforcement surge<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>, which might tighten the unskilled labor market so the economy looks good from the bottom as well as the top (and save Bush from whiffing completely on a signature issue)?  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mickey Kaus writes: Will three surges late in his term salavage Bush&#8217;s presidency? 1) Petraeus&#8217; &#8216;surge&#8217; in Iraq; 2) Bernanke&#8217;s rate-cutting liquidity surge to prevent the economy from sliding into recession; 3) The new border enforcement surge, which might tighten &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1022\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}