{"id":5759,"date":"2009-08-19T10:25:20","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T10:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5759"},"modified":"2009-08-19T10:25:20","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T10:25:20","slug":"questions-for-sen-grassley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=5759","title":{"rendered":"questions for Sen. Grassley"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<p>&#8220;I think that he is a good person, and good-intentioned. But I believe he didn&#8217;t serve in government long enough to understand really how things work&#8230; He really does not have an understanding of how Congress operates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), in a <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalwire.com\/archives\/2009\/08\/05\/bonus_quote_of_the_day.html\">radio interview<\/a>, about President Obama.<\/ul>\n<p>Senator, do you think that the Congress you understand so thoroughly (having served in it since 1974) operates <em>well<\/em>? Do you think that the American people hold its processes and leaders in high regard? What have you done as a sometime committee chair and leader to improve how it operates? If you had a chance to &#8220;explain&#8221; the process to our relatively young president, would you be able to justify what you explained?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I think that he is a good person, and good-intentioned. But I believe he didn&#8217;t serve in government long enough to understand really how things work&#8230; He really does not have an understanding of how Congress operates.&#8221; &#8212; Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), in a radio interview, about President Obama. Senator, do you think that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}