{"id":705533,"date":"2010-03-31T10:49:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=81016"},"modified":"2010-03-31T10:49:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T14:49:41","slug":"boehner-slams-obama%e2%80%99s-offshore-drilling-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/705533","title":{"rendered":"Boehner Slams Obama\u2019s Offshore Drilling Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I predicted that President Obama would take some heat for his <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/80971\/obama-to-open-atlantic-coast-to-offshore-drilling\">decision to expand oil drilling<\/a> off much of the country&#8217;s coastline. But I didn&#8217;t think it would be <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/e2-wire\/677-e2-wire\/89999-boehner-rebukes-obama-offshore-drilling-plan\">coming from Republicans<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) dismissed the president&#8217;s plan as not going far enough in opening up U.S. waters for exploration.<\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s decision  &#8220;continues to defy the will of the American people,&#8221; Boehner said in a statement, pointing to the president&#8217;s decision to open Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico waters, while leaving Pacific and many  Alaskan waters largely closed to exploration.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This guy ain&#8217;t easy to please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I predicted that President Obama would take some heat for his decision to expand oil drilling off much of the country&#8217;s coastline. But I didn&#8217;t think it would be coming from Republicans: House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) dismissed the president&#8217;s plan as not going far enough in opening up U.S. waters for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3552,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Xxz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}