{"id":482,"date":"2008-02-18T17:06:50","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T17:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/fp-wp\/?p=482"},"modified":"2008-02-18T17:06:50","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T17:06:50","slug":"no-blinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=482","title":{"rendered":"No Blinking!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among last week&#8217;s good news, of course, was the fact that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/02\/14\/AR2008021403940.html?hpid=moreheadlines\">House Democrats refused to blink<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>House Defies Bush on Wiretaps<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;White House officials and their allies were angry that the Democrats did not &#8220;blink,&#8221; as one outside adviser said. The decision to defy the White House came in the form of a weeklong adjournment of the House yesterday afternoon&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><P>I wanted to share this bit of an <a href=\"http:\/\/wwwc.house.gov\/reyes\/news_detail.asp?id=1370\">excellent letter to President Bush<\/a> from Chairman Reyes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Mr. President:<\/p>\n<p>The Preamble to our Constitution states that one of our highest duties as public officials is to <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among last week&#8217;s good news, of course, was the fact that the House Democrats refused to blink. House Defies Bush on Wiretaps &#8230;White House officials and their allies were angry that the Democrats did not &#8220;blink,&#8221; as one outside adviser said. The decision to defy the White House came in the form of a weeklong adjournment of the House yesterday afternoon&#8230;. I wanted to share this bit of an excellent letter to President Bush from Chairman Reyes. Dear Mr. President: The Preamble to our Constitution states that one of our highest duties as public officials is to<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=482\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-7M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}