{"id":907,"date":"2006-04-13T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-13T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=907"},"modified":"2011-05-18T11:10:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T17:10:39","slug":"perry-for-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/perry-for-vp\/","title":{"rendered":"Perry for VP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5524\/1070\/1600\/0413perry.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5524\/1070\/320\/0413perry.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA writer for the DMN suggests a possible bid by Texas Gov. Rick &#8220;McDreamy&#8221; Perry or Hutchison for VP in 2008.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AUSTIN \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Gov. Rick Perry had very different messages about federal spending in recent appearances before two very different groups.<br \/>\nTo Senate budget writers in Washington, he pleaded for $2 billion to compensate the state for hurricane relief.<br \/>\nFour days later, Mr. Perry drew cheers from a Republican gathering in Tennessee when he lambasted big-spending government where &#8220;deficits explode, entitlement programs take over.&#8221;<br \/>\nHis appearances point up the dual strategies of a governor who insists he&#8217;s focused on Texas as he approaches re-election while allies work to burnish his national credentials as a potential vice presidential nominee.<br \/>\nThe out-of-state events not only have heightened his profile but they also have created behind-the-scenes tension with Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison&#8217;s backers. They see her as a more likely choice for vice president on a GOP ticket in 2008.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A writer for the DMN suggests a possible bid by Texas Gov. Rick &#8220;McDreamy&#8221; Perry or Hutchison for VP in 2008. AUSTIN \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Gov. Rick Perry had very different messages about federal spending in recent appearances before two very different groups. To Senate budget writers in Washington, he pleaded for $2 billion to compensate the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/perry-for-vp\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Perry for VP?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-eD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}