{"id":27389,"date":"2009-10-24T12:54:47","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T12:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/10\/24\/ufos-on-quiche-moraine\/"},"modified":"2009-10-24T12:54:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T12:54:47","slug":"ufos-on-quiche-moraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/24\/ufos-on-quiche-moraine\/","title":{"rendered":"UFO&#8217;s on Quiche Moraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Among a certain class of people, the term &#8220;Rumsfeldian&#8221; is used to describe a style of leadership that prizes bureaucratic turf-protecting, dissent-quashing through barely concealed intimidation, an inflated sense of self-importance, and the inability to incorporate possible long-term consequences into the decision making process.  This class consists primarily of policy wonks, especially the left-leaning ones I interact with daily at the Humphrey Institute, and we are referring to former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.  There is, however, another context where you will hear &#8220;Rumsfeldian&#8221; being bandied about, and that is in conjunction with his famous quote during a press conference on Feb. 12th, 2002:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/quichemoraine.com\/2009\/10\/ufos-rumsfeldian-style\/\"><br \/>\nThe Latest Guest Post on Quiche Moraine. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among a certain class of people, the term &#8220;Rumsfeldian&#8221; is used to describe a style of leadership that prizes bureaucratic turf-protecting, dissent-quashing through barely concealed intimidation, an inflated sense of self-importance, and the inability to incorporate possible long-term consequences into the decision making process. This class consists primarily of policy wonks, especially the left-leaning ones &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/24\/ufos-on-quiche-moraine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UFO&#8217;s on Quiche Moraine<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-77L","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}