{"id":1165,"date":"2009-09-08T17:48:26","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T17:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2009-09-08T17:48:26","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T17:48:26","slug":"that_was_then_this_is_now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1165","title":{"rendered":"That Was Then; This Is Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2009\/09\/024467.php\">Power Line<\/a>&nbsp;reminds us today of the reaction when George H. W. Bush spoke to school children in 1991.&nbsp; They cite a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/When-Bush-spoke-to-students-Democrats-investigated-held-hearings-57694347.html\">Washington Examiner<\/a>&nbsp;article by Byron York that chronicles the events.&nbsp; According to Byron York:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Democrats, then the majority party in Congress, not only denounced Bush&#8217;s speech &#8212; they also ordered the General Accounting Office to investigate its production and later summoned top Bush administration officials to Capitol Hill for an extensive hearing on the issue.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">They eventually concluded that he had done nothing illegal, but spent a lot of taxpayer money coming to that conclusion.&nbsp; My how times have changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power Line&nbsp;reminds us today of the reaction when George H. W. Bush spoke to school children in 1991.&nbsp; They cite a Washington Examiner&nbsp;article by Byron York that chronicles the events.&nbsp; According to Byron York: &#8220;Democrats, then the majority party in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1165\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}