{"id":469,"date":"2009-01-26T19:55:58","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T19:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=469"},"modified":"2009-01-26T19:55:58","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T19:55:58","slug":"why_should_congress_spend_time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"Why Should Congress Spend Time On Anything Important?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Representative John Conyers of Michigan has subpoenaed Karl Rove to testify before the House Judiciary Committee about the Bush administration&#8217;s firing of U.S. attorneys and prosecution of a former Democratic governor.&nbsp; According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/jan\/26\/house-judiciary-chairman-subpoenas-karl-rove\/\">Washington Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The subpoena commanded Rove to appear for a deposition on Feb. 2 on the firings of U.S. attorneys for political reasons. Conyers also demanded testimony on whether politics played a role in the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, a Democrat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With all the current financial issues the country is facing, I believe that this is a total waste of time and money.&nbsp; The U. S. Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President.&nbsp; There is nothing wrong with firing them.&nbsp; This is not only a waste of time, it is a witch hunt designed to take attention away from a very unsuccessful Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representative John Conyers of Michigan has subpoenaed Karl Rove to testify before the House Judiciary Committee about the Bush administration&#8217;s firing of U.S. attorneys and prosecution of a former Democratic governor.&nbsp; According to the Washington Times: &#8220;The subpoena commanded Rove &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=469\">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-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","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=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}