{"id":72389,"date":"2019-10-18T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72389"},"modified":"2019-10-13T09:24:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T14:24:56","slug":"tangent-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72389","title":{"rendered":"Tangent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I love reading Powerline, but sometimes, their contributors completely miss the point<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2019\/10\/how-impeachment-should-work.php\">Here&#8217;s a column suggesting impeachment should be done fairly<\/a>, on a measured and reasoned basis, with the President assisting Congress to reach the Truth.<br>Impeachment has nothing to do with the truth. Impeachment is strictly a political act, similar to a vote of no-confidence in Parliament. Democrats know this and are playing hard ball: anonymous rumors and gossip as &#8220;evidence,&#8221; Republicans excluded from interviewing witnesses, nobody getting\u00a0 due process. <br>This impeachment investigation has nothing to do with high crimes or misdemeanors. This is a prolonged campaign commercial so their pals in the media can scream Trump Impeached to deceive the last few low-information voters.<br>There&#8217;s no mystery why Trump refuses to play along. The mystery is why establishment Republicans want him to.<br>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love reading Powerline, but sometimes, their contributors completely miss the pointHere&#8217;s a column suggesting impeachment should be done fairly, on a measured and reasoned basis, with the President assisting Congress to reach the Truth.Impeachment has nothing to do with the truth. Impeachment is strictly a political act, similar to a vote of no-confidence in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72389","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=72389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72392,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72389\/revisions\/72392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}