{"id":32821,"date":"2015-08-23T20:09:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T00:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=32821"},"modified":"2015-08-23T20:10:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T00:10:04","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-friday-august-21st-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=32821","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Friday, August 21st, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It&#8217;s Friday, August 21st, 2015&#8230;and here&#8217;s The Gouge; as reveille is at 0500 so as to get TLJ to the airport for a 0730 flight, this will be short, sweet&#8230;and, <em>as always<\/em>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>insightful<\/em><\/span>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First up, <em>Hope n&#8217; Change<\/em> offers a satirical look at three things we&#8217;d never have believed possible seven years ago: a President of the United States actively acting to undermine America&#8217;s security&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Trust-But-Dont-Verify-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32770\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Trust-But-Dont-Verify-1.jpg\" alt=\"Trust But Don't Verify 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Trust-But-Dont-Verify-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Trust-But-Dont-Verify-1-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;infanticide for profit&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Cold-Cutter-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32771\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Cold-Cutter-1.jpg\" alt=\"Cold Cutter 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Cold-Cutter-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Cold-Cutter-1-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and the continued viability of a candidate for the highest office in the land <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>clearly<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Poker-Face-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32772\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Poker-Face-1.jpg\" alt=\"Poker Face 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Poker-Face-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Poker-Face-1-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;guilty of conspicuous corruption.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Y<\/strong><strong>et a sizable segment of the electorate seems <em>positively<\/em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>begging<\/em><\/span> for an encore; indeed, ready, able and more than willing to elect a liar equal to, if not far more experienced <em>than<\/em>, The Dear Misleader. \u00a0Hells bells; <em>Hillary<\/em> was lying&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uHVEDq6RVXc\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;before Barry was out of diapers!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/obama_diapers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32783\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/obama_diapers.jpg\" alt=\"obama_diapers\" width=\"400\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/obama_diapers.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/obama_diapers-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Okay&#8230;since before we&#8217;d regrettably\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>heard<\/em><\/span> of Barack Hussein Obama.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Absent our abiding faith in the controlling hand of God, all of this would be enough to make us question our sanity. \u00a0Instead, such events simply serve to confirm our assertion Liberalism truly <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>is<\/em><\/span> a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><em>mental illness<\/em><\/span>, untreatable by anything other than the truth&#8230;which the disease unfortunately renders its victims incapable of hearing, let alone understanding.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What else could possibly explain <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>anyone<\/em><\/span>, other than the most diehard Feminazis, continuing to support Planned Parenthood, aka Calculated Carnage after <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>this<\/em><\/span>?!?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FzMAycMMXp8\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>And we don&#8217;t use the term &#8220;Feminazis&#8221; lightly. \u00a0For those like us, who once wondered where Hitler found <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>so many<\/em><\/span> willing to engage in the wholesale slaughter of tens of millions of innocents&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/140226_planned_parenthood_getty_605.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32782\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/140226_planned_parenthood_getty_605.jpg\" alt=\"Pro-Choice Supporters Rally In DC Against Restrictive Abortion Laws\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/140226_planned_parenthood_getty_605.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/140226_planned_parenthood_getty_605-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;we&#8217;ve got our answer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a related item, courtesy of <em>NRO<\/em>,\u00a0Victor Davis Hanson\u00a0details the results of 6-1\/2 years of rudderless rule:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/422643\/obama-failed-foreign-policy?utm_source=jolt&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Jolt08182015&amp;utm_term=Jolt\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\">Obama: Earning Contempt, at Home and Abroad<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><a style=\"color: #333399;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/422643\/obama-failed-foreign-policy?utm_source=jolt&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Jolt08182015&amp;utm_term=Jolt\" class=\"broken_link\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">From Thucydides\u2019s Athens to 21st-century America, appeasement is not a winner<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Day-444.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32758\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Day-444.png\" alt=\"Day 444\" width=\"400\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Day-444.png 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Day-444-300x208.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The more Britain\u2019s Chamberlain and France\u2019s Daladier in 1938 genuinely sought to reassure Hitler of their benign intentions, the more the Nazi hierarchy saw them as little more than \u201cworms\u201d \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>squirming to appease the stronger spirit<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> Both were seen as unsure of who they were and what they stood for, ready to forfeit the memory of the sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of their own on the false altar of a supposedly mean and unfair Versailles Treaty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Hitler perversely admired Stalin after the latter liquidated a million German prisoners, and hated FDR, whose armies treated German POWs with relative humanity.<span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong> In matters big and small, from Sophocles\u2019 Antigone to Shakespeare\u2019s King Lear, <em>we see the noble and dutiful treated worse by their beneficiaries than the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">duplicitous and traitorous<\/span><\/em>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Awareness of this pernicious trait is not cynical encouragement to adopt such pathologies and accept our dog-eat-dog world. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Rather, in the postmodern, high-tech 21st century, we sometimes fool ourselves into thinking we have evolved to a higher level than what Thucydides saw at Melos or Corcyra \u2014 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>a conceit that is dangerous for the powerful and often fatal for the weaker<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32762\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obama-smirk.jpg\" alt=\"obama-smirk\" width=\"400\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obama-smirk.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/obama-smirk-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Not to mention the &#8220;duplcitous and traitorous&#8221;!<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>One thing Donald Trump got right was the pathetic spectacle of socialist Bernie Sanders being mystified about why Black Lives Matter activists would pick on him of all people.<\/strong><\/span> Why would they not first hijack a speech by Trump or Walker to shout down the conservative audience? <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>If two white pro-life evangelicals had grabbed Sanders\u2019s microphone, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>would he have so obsequiously ceded it<\/em><\/span>?<\/strong><\/span> Would the activists have been more respectful of the microphone of the officious Sanders or the imperious Trump?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>The most important characteristic of a sound diplomat and negotiator is the acknowledgment of this sad human characteristic, which to some degree is innate in us all.<\/strong><\/span> It was often said during the Cold War that the Soviet hegemonists would rather negotiate with right-wingers than liberals, apparently on the premise that those they could not bully they respected, and those they could bully they felt only contempt for. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>It reminds me of a minor Chinese official who once told me that she thought Obama must be a master of intrigue; <em>otherwise, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">she could not believe a leader would so frequently neglect his own country\u2019s strategic interests<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Which assumes, of course, The Obamao&#8217;s interests are actually aligned <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>with<\/em><\/span> America&#8217;s; an assumption, were it made in court by opposing counsel, we&#8217;d state, &#8220;<\/b><strong>Objection, your Honor; offers facts <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> in evidence!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the\u00a0<em>WSJ<\/em>&#8216;s H<\/strong><strong>olman Jenkins reports the reality behind Carly Fiorina&#8217;s record at HP:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/ceo-fiorina-fought-the-good-fight-1439939185?cb=logged0.9745742478407919\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;\">CEO Fiorina Fought the Good Fight<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/ceo-fiorina-fought-the-good-fight-1439939185?cb=logged0.9745742478407919\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">No big-tech chief executive created value between 1999 and 2005. And Carly was one of them<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ED-AT991_BW0819_J_20150818113754.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32755\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ED-AT991_BW0819_J_20150818113754.jpg\" alt=\"ED-AT991_BW0819_J_20150818113754\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ED-AT991_BW0819_J_20150818113754.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ED-AT991_BW0819_J_20150818113754-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">People get the wrong idea about CEOs, mostly from the media.<\/span> CEOs are supposed to be magical persons who transform opportunities invisible to the rest of us into unlimited wealth.<\/strong><\/span> If only GM, some pundits moaned at the time of GM\u2019s bankruptcy, had a Steve Jobs who could combine steel, plastic and glass in a way that would perform all the functions of an automobile yet liberate its maker from the tyranny of costs and intense price competition with other manufacturers of automobiles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>What\u2019s reasonable to expect is something else: CEOs who make conscientious choices and diligently execute them, knowing that superlative results will happen only if a lot of things beyond their control fall into place too.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Look at HP\u2019s stock chart under Ms. Fiorina, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>who had the misfortune to arrive eight months before the tech bubble burst<\/em><\/span>: <em>It\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">indistinguishable<\/span> from Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, Cisco<span class=\"company-name-type\">,<\/span> etc<\/em>. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">By the idiotic standard her critics apply, John Chambers is the worst CEO in history, since in 15 years he never made back the wealth Cisco lost in the crash<\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the words of the immortal Pigpen:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6iYE1k96XF8?start=994\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up, as the <em>WSJ<\/em>&#8216;s\u00a0Kimberly Strassel relates, there&#8217;s winners (like Carly), and&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/romney-loser-forehead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32784\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/romney-loser-forehead.jpg\" alt=\"romney loser forehead\" width=\"199\" height=\"253\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;losers, as evidenced by&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wsj-article-headline\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #800080; text-decoration: underline;\">The Compassion of John Kasich<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<h3 class=\"sub-head\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Big government conservatism isn\u2019t big-hearted, despite the sermons from a few presidential hopefuls<\/span>.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/b57fc3e70c4e65554e69d57ed3b71fd16df3925b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32781\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/b57fc3e70c4e65554e69d57ed3b71fd16df3925b.jpg\" alt=\"b57fc3e70c4e65554e69d57ed3b71fd16df3925b\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/b57fc3e70c4e65554e69d57ed3b71fd16df3925b.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/b57fc3e70c4e65554e69d57ed3b71fd16df3925b-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>And the Lord sayeth to John, &#8220;Eembrace Obamacare and every other aspect of Progressive big government&#8221;!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;There\u2019s compassion, and there\u2019s compassion, and then there\u2019s John Kasich. The Ohio governor has long odds at becoming the Republican nominee, at least for now. But he\u2019s forcing conservatives to confront a very old\u2014if shined up\u2014choice about the role of government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As the nation goes about mentally categorizing the crowded Republican field, here\u2019s one way to divide the arena: small-government reformers and big-government surrenderists. That debate is at the center of a bigger GOP meditation on how to better appeal to the poor and minorities. <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Mr. Kasich has emerged as the most eloquent and compelling spokesperson for the go-big camp.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8230;Mr. Kasich is a happy-in-life-and-God conservative, and it makes him seem the optimist. <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>Which is bizarre, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>because underpinning the entire compassionate-conservative movement is a glum surrender to the entitlement state<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>The left has <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>won<\/em><\/span>; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>all that remains is to argue that conservative big-government is better managed than liberal big-government<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">Note Mr. Kasich\u2019s celebration that <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">his<\/span><\/em> poverty program is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>less bad<\/em><\/span> than <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>other<\/em><\/span> poverty programs.<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Yay<\/em><\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>It\u2019s not really a winning message<\/em><\/span>.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Of course, there is another approach to compassion. It\u2019s the version made popular byJack Kemp, and embraced by House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan\u2014and a growing list of converts. <strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">It holds that there is nothing whatsoever compassionate about consigning low-income Americans to a government health-care system that delivers second-class outcomes. <span style=\"color: #008080;\">There\u2019s nothing compassionate about making today\u2019s working poor pay into a bleeding Social Security system or finance middle-class tax perks.<\/span> There\u2019s nothing compassionate about propping up a federally run poverty industrial-complex that spends most of its money on itself.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>The Kemp-Ryan view knows that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>government is the problem<\/em><\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>not<\/em><\/span> the answer\u2014<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>not in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">any<\/span> form<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>A replay of Dubya?<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/25lDX4wA1SQ?start=4\" width=\"420\" height=\"235\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Whether it be Kasich <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>OR<\/em><\/span> his brother!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Finally, on the Lighter Side&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cb081915dAPR20150819114516.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32775\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cb081915dAPR20150819114516.jpg\" alt=\"cb081915dAPR20150819114516\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cb081915dAPR20150819114516.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/cb081915dAPR20150819114516-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mrz082015dAPR20150819104513.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32778\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mrz082015dAPR20150819104513.jpg\" alt=\"mrz082015dAPR20150819104513\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mrz082015dAPR20150819104513.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mrz082015dAPR20150819104513-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/4_16768220150818100948.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32773\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/4_16768220150818100948.jpg\" alt=\"4_16768220150818100948\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/4_16768220150818100948.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/4_16768220150818100948-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gmc13449520150818040700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32774\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/gmc13449520150818040700.jpg\" alt=\"gmc13449520150818040700\" width=\"462\" height=\"359\" 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href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/lb0819cd20150818013355.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32779\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/lb0819cd20150818013355.jpg\" alt=\"lb0819cd20150818013355\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/lb0819cd20150818013355.jpg 462w, https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/lb0819cd20150818013355-300x227.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/bg082015dAPR20150820114559.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32776\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/mrz081915dAPR20150818114612.jpg\" alt=\"mrz081915dAPR20150818114612\" width=\"462\" height=\"350\" 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100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Magoo<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday, August 21st, 2015&#8230;and here&#8217;s The Gouge; as reveille is at 0500 so as to get TLJ to the airport for a 0730 flight, this will be short, sweet&#8230;and, as always, insightful! First up, Hope n&#8217; Change offers a satirical look at three things we&#8217;d never have believed possible seven years ago: a President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32822,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32821\/revisions\/32822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}