{"id":18977,"date":"2017-01-04T00:56:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T00:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18977"},"modified":"2017-01-04T00:56:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-04T00:56:37","slug":"welcome-to-a-rocky-start-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18977","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to a rocky start, Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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That didn’t take long.<\/p>\n

Congressional Republicans decided to gut an ethics watchdog group, prompting the president-elect to send out a tweet that said they should focus on other matters first; then the House GOP caucus decided to scrap the watchdog-gutting, apparently cowed by Donald Trump’s Twitter tirade.<\/p>\n

I’m glad the House GOP thought better of the cockamamie idea to place ethics investigations solely within the House Ethics Committee, which is run by Republicans.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/312496-house-gop-scraps-plan-to-gut-ethics-watchdog-after-emergency-meeting<\/a><\/p>\n

What’s next? The bipartisan independent group will continue to refer complaints to Congress if they deem them legitimate. They’ll be able to accept anonymous complaints.<\/p>\n

Does this mean Donald Trump has found some ethical “religion”? Probably not. He’s got a slew of problems himself to resolve.<\/p>\n

It does mean, though, that he seems to have put the fear of social media into the minds of his fellow Republicans.<\/p>\n

Still, it’s a clumsy start to the next congressional session.<\/p>\n\n

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That didn’t take long. Congressional Republicans decided to gut an ethics watchdog group, prompting the president-elect to send out a tweet that said they should focus on other matters first; then the House GOP caucus decided to scrap the watchdog-gutting, apparently cowed by Donald Trump’s Twitter tirade. I’m glad the House GOP thought better of … Continue reading Welcome to a rocky start, Congress<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[849,1424,1632,2179,4932],"class_list":["post-18977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-capitol-hill","tag-donald-trump","tag-ethics","tag-house-gop","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18978,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18977\/revisions\/18978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}