{"id":255,"date":"2003-03-21T11:44:26","date_gmt":"2003-03-21T16:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/255.html"},"modified":"2003-03-21T11:44:26","modified_gmt":"2003-03-21T16:44:26","slug":"does-bush-need-a-break-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/does-bush-need-a-break-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Bush need a break already?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Far be it for Carpetbagger to begrudge someone for wanting to take a little break. But isn&#8217;t it a little odd the president won&#8217;t be in the White House this weekend?<\/p>\n<p>It was announced today that Bush will be leaving DC in a few hours <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/national\/apmideast_story.asp?category=1107&#038;slug=War%20Bush%20Camp%20David\">so he can spend the weekend<\/a> at the presidential retreat, Camp David. I know there&#8217;s plenty of modern equipment at the retreat to keep the president informed on world events. Yet, with the war just having started, and &#8220;shock and awe&#8221; getting launched a couple of hours ago, perhaps the president would be sending a stronger message of control and authority by actually staying in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>An administration official told the AP that Bush is leaving because his father went to Camp David on the first weekend of the first war in Iraq. Yeah, that&#8217;s a good reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Far be it for Carpetbagger to begrudge someone for wanting to take a little break. But isn&#8217;t it a little odd the president won&#8217;t be in the White House this weekend? It was announced today that Bush will be leaving DC in a few hours so he can spend the weekend at the presidential retreat, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}