{"id":284,"date":"2008-11-15T09:07:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T09:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=284"},"modified":"2008-11-15T09:07:25","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T09:07:25","slug":"challenge_to_john_boehner_in_h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"Challenge to John Boehner In House Minority Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalradar\/2008\/11\/boehner-to-face.html\">ABC News<\/a>,&nbsp;Dan Lundgrun, a Republican representative from California, will be challenging John Boehner on his leadership position.&nbsp; I like John Boehner, I think his actions last summer to push through a drilling bill were great&#8211;but, unfortunately, although he increased the awareness of many Americans on the issue, he achieved no visible results.&nbsp; The Democrats caved on the issue, but if Barack Obama follows through on what he has said, he will reinstate the ban on offshore exploration.&nbsp; I think&nbsp;John Boehner&nbsp;has done a reasonable job, but I think in view of the last election and the general lack of backbone in our Republican representatives that it is time for a change.&nbsp; I do agree with Representative Lundgrun that competition improves things.&nbsp; Hopefully, this race will cause house Republicans to restate their principles and define them more clearly.&nbsp; This would be a good thing for everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to ABC News,&nbsp;Dan Lundgrun, a Republican representative from California, will be challenging John Boehner on his leadership position.&nbsp; I like John Boehner, I think his actions last summer to push through a drilling bill were great&#8211;but, unfortunately, although he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=284\">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-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","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=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}