{"id":7919,"date":"2006-07-13T09:41:22","date_gmt":"2006-07-13T13:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/7919.html"},"modified":"2006-07-13T09:41:22","modified_gmt":"2006-07-13T13:41:22","slug":"the-house-gop-agenda-literally-a-blank-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/the-house-gop-agenda-literally-a-blank-page\/","title":{"rendered":"The House GOP agenda: literally a blank page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, after the Dems unveiled their domestic [tag]policy[\/tag] [tag]agenda[\/tag] for 2007, I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/7696.html\">suggested<\/a> that Republicans do the same. After all, voters should know about the parties&#8217; legislative priorities for the future before they vote in November, and right now, the [tag]GOP[\/tag] appears reluctant to put forward any specific ideas on anything.<\/p>\n<p>Even in the short term, it&#8217;s not altogether clear what congressional [tag]Republicans[\/tag] want to do with their power. Now there&#8217;s proof that the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/6523.html\">party of ideas<\/a>&#8221; is directionless.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Gehrke <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senatemajority.com\/node\/454\">noticed<\/a> yesterday that House Majority Leader [tag]John Boehner[\/tag] (R-Ohio) has created a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.majorityleader.gov\/issues.asp\">section<\/a> on his leadership webpage devoted exclusively to the issues the GOP caucus is committed to working on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.majorityleader.gov\/issues.asp\">Take a look<\/a>; it tells us all we need to know about the sad state of the GOP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, after the Dems unveiled their domestic [tag]policy[\/tag] [tag]agenda[\/tag] for 2007, I suggested that Republicans do the same. After all, voters should know about the parties&#8217; legislative priorities for the future before they vote in November, and right now, the [tag]GOP[\/tag] appears reluctant to put forward any specific ideas on anything. Even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7919","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=7919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}