{"id":579,"date":"2007-05-01T09:45:44","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T07:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2007\/05\/01\/what-is-it-about-politcians\/"},"modified":"2007-05-01T09:45:44","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T07:45:44","slug":"what-is-it-about-politcians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2007\/05\/01\/what-is-it-about-politcians\/","title":{"rendered":"What is it about politcians?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Wolfowitz may not be an elected politician, but he's certainly part of the US political elite, if for no other reason than having been accused of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2007\/03\/21\/world-bank-agrees-to-tackle-the-supply-side-of-corruption\/\" target=\"_blank\">corruption<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His reaction is reminiscent of a politician in Jersey of my acquaintance. When accused of a lack of integrity he's responded with a whopper, quoted in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/7276f154-f751-11db-86b0-000b5df10621,_i_nbePage=ff3cbaf6-3024-11da-ba9f-00000e2511c8.html\" target=\"_blank\">FT<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I will not resign in the face of a plainly bogus charge of conflict of interest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As the FT continued,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr Wolfowitz lashed out against what he called a \"smear campaign\" that aimed \"to create a self-fulfilling prophecy that I am an ineffective leader and must step down for that reason alone\".<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you can read the story (also available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/18402802\/\" target=\"_blank\">MSN<\/a>) you'll have little doubt about what the FT really thinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Wolfowitz may not be an elected politician, but he&#8217;s certainly part of the US political elite, if for no other reason than having been<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2007\/05\/01\/what-is-it-about-politcians\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}