{"id":3990,"date":"2005-04-18T10:27:30","date_gmt":"2005-04-18T14:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/3990.html"},"modified":"2005-04-18T10:27:30","modified_gmt":"2005-04-18T14:27:30","slug":"bush-confused-by-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/bush-confused-by-newspaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush confused by newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good to know Bush is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A61039-2005Apr17.html\">staying on top of things<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[I]t&#8217;s hard to keep up with every tiny little thing in the paper. Take the new, White House-approved policy to require U.S. citizens to show passports when they reenter the country from Mexico and Canada &#8212; and require the same for citizens of those countries. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I first read that in the newspaper about the need to have passports,&#8221; Bush told a meeting of editors Wednesday, &#8220;I said, &#8216;What&#8217;s going on here?&#8217; &#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which is more surprising, that Bush has no idea what his administration is considering with regards to travel policies in North America, or that Bush &#8212; who once bragged he did little more than &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/1774.html\">glance at the headlines<\/a>&#8221; &#8212; was reading a newspaper?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s good to know Bush is staying on top of things. [I]t&#8217;s hard to keep up with every tiny little thing in the paper. Take the new, White House-approved policy to require U.S. citizens to show passports when they reenter the country from Mexico and Canada &#8212; and require the same for citizens of those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}