{"id":2522,"date":"2004-05-24T05:39:31","date_gmt":"2004-05-24T19:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/24\/republican-lightbulb-joke\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T10:30:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T18:30:53","slug":"republican-lightbulb-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/24\/republican-lightbulb-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican lightbulb joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10990,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com\\\/story\\\/2004\\\/5\\\/23\\\/1182\\\/83641&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250918005133\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com\\\/story\\\/2004\\\/5\\\/23\\\/1182\\\/83641&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 11:03:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 11:03:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>How many members of the Bush Administration are needed to replace a lightbulb?<\/p>\n<p>The Answer is SEVEN:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>one to deny that a lightbulb needs to be replaced<\/li>\n<li>one to attack and question the patriotism of anyone who has questions about the lightbulb,<\/li>\n<li>one to blame the previous administration for the need of a new lightbulb,<\/li>\n<li>one to arrange the invasion of a country rumored to have a secret stockpile of lightbulbs,<\/li>\n<li>one to get together with Vice President Cheney and figure out how to pay Halliburton Industries one million dollars for a lightbulb,<\/li>\n<li>one to arrange a photo-op session showing Bush changing the lightbulb while dressed in a flight suit and wrapped in an American flag,<\/li>\n<li>and finally one to explain to Bush the difference between screwing a lightbulb and screwing the country.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2004\/5\/23\/1182\/83641\" title=\"Bush Joke\">Daily Kos<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>iTunes:<\/strong> &#8220;Situation (Richard&#8221;Humpty\\&#8221; Vission Radio Edit)\\&#8221; by Yaz from the album <em>Don&#8217;t Go\/Situation<\/em> (1999, 4:01).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many members of the Bush Administration are needed to replace a lightbulb?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[6,14],"class_list":["post-2522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-humor","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}