{"id":1145,"date":"2007-05-22T21:37:06","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T01:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2007-05-22T21:37:06","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T01:37:06","slug":"on-an-ironic-bush-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1145","title":{"rendered":"On an Ironic Bush Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/05\/21\/AR2007052101586.html\">Said President Bush while on vacation at his Crawford, Texas ranch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;And they ought to get the job done of passing legislation, as opposed to figuring out how to be actors on the political theater stage.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They, being Congress.  Political theater, being investigating Alberto Gonzales and providing oversight of the Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm, is the President not aware of the irony of chiding Congress for not passing legislation, when he vetoed one important piece of legislation&#8211;the Iraq supplemental spending bill&#8211;and is threatening other vetoes?  Is he not aware of the irony of criticizing Congress for not &#8220;get[ting] the job done&#8221; when he, himself, is on vacation?<\/p>\n<p>And how many days has the President been on vacation since he took office?  Four hundred days?  Where does a man who has taken <i>four hundred days<\/i> of vacation find the moral pedestal from which to criticize people for <i>doing their jobs?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Someone needs to slap the man with a clue-by-four. :\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Said President Bush while on vacation at his Crawford, Texas ranch: &#8220;And they ought to get the job done of passing legislation, as opposed to figuring out how to be actors on the political theater stage.&#8221; They, being Congress. Political theater, being investigating Alberto Gonzales and providing oversight of the Justice Department. Hmm, is the<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1145\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On an Ironic Bush Statement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[273],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-george-bush","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}