{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://hern.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=392", "Hern: Biden is \u201cspectacularly incompetent\u201d", "2021-08-16", "2021", "2021-08", "Republican", "House", "OK", "Kevin Hern", "H001082", "hern.house.gov", "hern", "https://hern.house.gov/news/documentquery.aspx", "scraper", "Representative Kevin Hern (OK-01) released the following statement in response to President Joe Biden\u2019s address to the nation this afternoon.\n\n\u201cJoe Biden seems to have taken a page out of the \u2018blame anyone but me\u2019 playbook from one of the biggest failures of the Democratic Party: Hillary Clinton,\u201d said Rep. Hern. \u201cBiden took a few hours break from his vacation in order to blame President Trump, President Obama, the Afghan government, and the Afghan military \u2013 anyone but himself and his Administration. Following his speech, where he took zero questions, Biden is headed back to his vacation when the world needs American leadership the most.\n\n\u201cThe truth is, Biden owns this. This is a tragedy of his own making. Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, and Defense Secretary Austin either lied to the American people, or they are spectacularly incompetent. They reassured us that Afghanistan would not fall, that the Taliban would not take Kabul, and that Americans would not be put in harm\u2019s way. Not only were they wrong, they were proven wrong almost immediately. I\u2019d love to see fact-checkers correcting Biden\u2019s lies, but I\u2019m not holding my breath.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:11:17Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://hern.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=392"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8928480092436075, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}