{"id":3496,"date":"2010-01-29T16:25:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T21:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3496"},"modified":"2010-01-29T16:39:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T21:39:12","slug":"the-president%e2%80%99s-question-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3496\/the-president%e2%80%99s-question-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"The President\u2019s Question Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, President Obama sparred with Republicans at a GOP retreat in Baltimore.\u00a0  The debate lasted about an hour, and covered taxes, spending, health care and federal debt, among other issues.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s good to see the U.S. following the British tradition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/cspan.org\/Series\/Prime-Minister-Questions.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Prime Minister\u2019s Questions<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Before the debate, Republicans were treated to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0110\/32192.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">second lecture<\/span><\/a> by the President.\u00a0 With two lectures in one week, the GOP must feel so fortunate.<\/p>\n<p>If you weren\u2019t glued to C-SPAN this afternoon, <a href=\"http:\/\/cspan.org\/Watch\/Media\/2010\/01\/29\/HP\/R\/29045\/President+Speaks+at+GOP+Retreat.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here is the full exchange<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, President Obama sparred with Republicans at a GOP retreat in Baltimore.\u00a0 The debate lasted about an hour, and covered taxes, spending, health care and federal debt, among other issues. It\u2019s good to see the U.S. following the British tradition of the Prime Minister\u2019s Questions. Before the debate, Republicans were treated to a second lecture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,505],"class_list":["post-3496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-president-obama","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3496"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3505,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3496\/revisions\/3505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}