{"id":40,"date":"2004-04-01T08:05:19","date_gmt":"2004-04-01T12:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=40"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"unprecedented-criminal-enterprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Unprecedented Criminal Enterprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-left:40px; padding-right:40px; font-weight:bold\">WASHINGTON (CNN) &#8212; The Republican National Committee launched a wide-ranging legal assault Wednesday on more than two dozen political groups working to defeat President Bush.<\/p>\n<p>The committee says the groups are part of an &#8220;unprecedented criminal enterprise&#8221; to circumvent federal campaign laws and pour illegal soft money contributions into the 2004 race.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px\">Wow.  An &#8220;unprecedented criminal enterprise.&#8221;<br \/>\nI would have thought driving a country nearly to bankruptcy might be unprecedented, or lying in order to start a war that has so far cost 600 american soldiers their lives might be unprecedented, or giving sweet-heart deals worth billions to your own companies might be unprecedented, or bragging about your military experience after being AWOL might be unprecedented, or exposing a CIA operative under deep cover, and hence her contacts, because her husband criticized you might be unprecedented.<\/p>\n<p>I guess what is unprecedented criminal behavior is having the temerity to object to those things.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) &#8212; The Republican National Committee launched a wide-ranging legal assault Wednesday on more than two dozen political groups working to defeat President Bush. The committee says the groups are part of an &#8220;unprecedented criminal enterprise&#8221; to circumvent federal campaign laws and pour illegal soft money contributions into the 2004 race. Wow. An &#8220;unprecedented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.folsoms.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}