{"id":538,"date":"2004-03-09T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-09T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/one-more-thing\/"},"modified":"2004-03-09T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-09T19:02:00","slug":"one-more-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/09\/one-more-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"One more thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like both Kerry and the media are going after Bush for only spending an hour with the Sept. 11 commission.  Here&#8217;s Kerry, from <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2004_03_07_atrios_archive.html#107878073714529660\">Eschaton<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kerry, who has accused Bush of impeding a federal commission investigating the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, said Monday while campaigning in Florida, &#8220;If the president of the United States can find time to go to a rodeo, he can spend more than one hour before the commission.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  And here&#8217;s an excerpt from the White House press briefing, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/week_2004_03_07.html#002676\">Talking Points Memo<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Q: You just said, \u201call the questions they want to raise.\u201d That means he\u2019s no longer going to limit it to an hour?<\/p>\n<p>McCLELLAN: Well, that\u2019s what it\u2019s scheduled for now. But, look, he\u2019s going to answer all the questions they want to raise. Keep in mind that the commission &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Q: If they\u2019re still asking at one hour, he\u2019ll still answer them?<\/p>\n<p>McCLELLAN: Keep in mind that the commission has already had access to all the information they requested, as I just pointed out, including our most sensitive national security documents. That\u2019s what I\u2019m talking about when I\u2019m talking about unprecedented cooperation. And the commission has also &#8212; yes, let me finish &#8212; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  Good.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like both Kerry and the media are going after Bush for only spending an hour with the Sept. 11 commission. Here&#8217;s Kerry, from Eschaton: Kerry, who has accused Bush of impeding a federal commission investigating the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, said Monday while campaigning in Florida, &#8220;If the president of the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}