{"id":8081,"date":"2006-08-01T09:11:08","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T13:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8081.html"},"modified":"2006-08-01T09:11:08","modified_gmt":"2006-08-01T13:11:08","slug":"menendez-schmenendez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/menendez-schmenendez\/","title":{"rendered":"Menendez, schmenendez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the president&#8217;s best friends <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/07\/30\/AR2006073000551.html\">are Cuban-Americans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), at the White House this spring for a meeting with other senators to discuss immigration with President Bush, was surprised when Bush approached him as the meeting broke up and observed: &#8220;Senator Martinez, you&#8217;ve been very quiet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s Martinez,&#8221; Menendez said, pointing to Mel Martinez &#8212; Florida&#8217;s junior senator and Bush&#8217;s former secretary of housing and urban development. &#8220;I&#8217;m Menendez.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bush turned bright red, we&#8217;re told.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was probably an innocent mistake, but the idea that Bush can&#8217;t quite tell the difference between two Cuban-American senators, one of whom used to be in his cabinet, is kind of amusing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the president&#8217;s best friends are Cuban-Americans. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), at the White House this spring for a meeting with other senators to discuss immigration with President Bush, was surprised when Bush approached him as the meeting broke up and observed: &#8220;Senator Martinez, you&#8217;ve been very quiet.&#8221; &#8220;That&#8217;s Martinez,&#8221; Menendez said, pointing to [&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-8081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081","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=8081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}