{"id":2295,"date":"2007-10-31T14:25:05","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T20:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/more-light-and-more-heat\/"},"modified":"2007-10-31T14:28:50","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T20:28:50","slug":"more-light-and-more-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/more-light-and-more-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"More Light and More Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/30\/washington\/30cnd-policy.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\">Bush Says Congress Is Wasting Time &#8211; New York Times<\/a> By BRIAN KNOWLTON<\/p>\n<p>Referring to the current congressional session, Mr. Bush said: \u201cWe\u2019re near the end of the year, and there really isn\u2019t much to show for it. <b class=\"highlight\">The House of Representatives has <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">wasted<\/span> valuable time on a constant stream of investigations<\/b>, and the Senate has wasted valuable time on an endless series of failed votes to pull our troops out of Iraq.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>Tricky Dick Nixon thought Congress was wasting its time investigating Watergate. For the past 6+ years, Republicans stopped any and all investigations &#8212; there was NO oversight of the almighty executive and no accountability. During that time, America lashed out at the world, spied on its own citizens and ran up expenses and casualties that would have an honorable man gutting himself with a sword. Now, we&#8217;re just starting to shine a bright light on things and Duhbya and his cronies want that stopped ASAP. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush Says Congress Is Wasting Time &#8211; New York Times By BRIAN KNOWLTON Referring to the current congressional session, Mr. Bush said: \u201cWe\u2019re near the end of the year, and there really isn\u2019t much to show for it. The House of Representatives has wasted valuable time on a constant stream of investigations, and the Senate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/more-light-and-more-heat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Light and More Heat<\/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-2295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295","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=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}