{"id":13407,"date":"2026-04-04T21:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=13407"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:10:09","slug":"we-saw-it-coming-george-w-bush-breaks-silence-warns-of-legislative-gridlock-and-hidden-policy-risks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=13407","title":{"rendered":"We Saw It Coming\u201d \u2014 George W. Bush Breaks Silence, Warns of Legislative Gridlock and Hidden Policy Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"102\" data-end=\"208\"><strong data-start=\"102\" data-end=\"208\">Former President George W. Bush is warning about a growing problem in Washington \u2014 rushed legislation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"210\" data-end=\"392\">Bush cautioned that massive bills passed under tight deadlines often receive limited debate, creating \u201chidden risks\u201d that affect families and businesses long after lawmakers move on.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"394\" data-end=\"509\">Rather than blaming one party, he stressed that governing by crisis can weaken transparency and erode public trust.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"511\" data-end=\"592\">His message:\u00a0<strong data-start=\"524\" data-end=\"592\">how laws are passed matters just as much as the laws themselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"594\" data-end=\"607\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Do you agree?<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1700471\" data-uid=\"17231\">\n<div id=\"mgw1700471_17231\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"mgbox\">\n<div class=\"mgheader\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Former President George W. Bush is warning about a growing problem in Washington \u2014 rushed legislation. Bush cautioned that massive bills passed under tight deadlines <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=13407\" title=\"We Saw It Coming\u201d \u2014 George W. Bush Breaks Silence, Warns of Legislative Gridlock and Hidden Policy Risks\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13409,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13407\/revisions\/13409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}