{"id":188,"date":"2006-12-11T15:24:45","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T21:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/12\/11\/symbolic-gestures\/"},"modified":"2006-12-28T13:29:01","modified_gmt":"2006-12-28T19:29:01","slug":"symbolic-gestures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Symbolic Gestures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cynthia McKinney, leaving the House, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/2006\/12\/08\/D8LT24S80.html\">files a purely symbolic bill<\/a> to impeach the President:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font class=\"story\">In what was likely her final legislative act in Congress, outgoing Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney introduced a bill Friday to impeach President Bush. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font class=\"story\">The legislation has no chance of passing and serves as a symbolic parting shot not only at Bush but also at Democratic leaders. Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has made clear that she will not entertain proposals to sanction Bush and has warned the liberal wing of her party against making political hay of impeachment. <\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As long as we&#8217;re dwelling in the world of symbols, allow me to <em>symbolically <\/em>lob (if only rhetorically) a sulpherous, rotten egg at Cynthia McKinney&#8217;s gibbering face.<\/p>\n<p>In my mind, it made such a symbolic spatter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cynthia McKinney, leaving the House, files a purely symbolic bill to impeach the President: In what was likely her final legislative act in Congress, outgoing Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney introduced a bill Friday to impeach President Bush. The legislation has no chance of passing and serves as a symbolic parting shot not only at Bush [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}