{"id":2065,"date":"2007-01-04T21:49:26","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T03:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/howard-kurtz-opinionator-in-chief\/"},"modified":"2007-01-04T21:49:26","modified_gmt":"2007-01-05T03:49:26","slug":"howard-kurtz-opinionator-in-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/howard-kurtz-opinionator-in-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Kurtz &#8211; Opinionator-in-Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/blog\/2007\/01\/04\/BL2007010400333.html\">Howard Kurtz &#8211; Opinionator-in-Chief<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Duhbya:] &#8220;It&#8217;s time Congress give the president a line-item veto. And today I will announce my own proposal to end this dead-of-the-night process and substantially cut the earmarks passed each year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let me get this straight. After six years of a Republican Congress earmarking truckloads of pork for home districts, much of it for Bridge-to-Nowhere projects, Bush has suddenly decided&#8211;the day before the Democrats take control&#8211;that earmarking is an outrage?<\/p>\n<p>How convenient.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s still a good idea to make it harder for lawmakers to slip costly goodies into bills. But when has Bush exhibited much concern for the inner workings of Congress? Whenever he&#8217;s been asked about the Foley scandal or Tom DeLay&#8217;s problems, the White House line has always been, that&#8217;s a congressional matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Kurtz &#8211; Opinionator-in-Chief [Duhbya:] &#8220;It&#8217;s time Congress give the president a line-item veto. And today I will announce my own proposal to end this dead-of-the-night process and substantially cut the earmarks passed each year.&#8221; Let me get this straight. After six years of a Republican Congress earmarking truckloads of pork for home districts, much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/howard-kurtz-opinionator-in-chief\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Howard Kurtz &#8211; Opinionator-in-Chief<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}