{"id":20613,"date":"2017-03-26T16:15:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T16:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20613"},"modified":"2017-03-26T16:15:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T16:15:55","slug":"yep-2-2-still-equals-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20613","title":{"rendered":"Yep, 2 + 2 still equals 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Let’s try to add a couple of things up and see if we agree on the result.<\/p>\n

Donald J. Trump puts a tweet out Saturday morning after he and congressional Republicans fail to enact a repeal of the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n

In the tweet, the president encourages Americans to tune in to the Fox News Channel and watch former prosecutor — and current Fox host — Jeanine Pirro’s show.<\/p>\n

Pirro goes on the air and demands the resignation of House Speaker Paul Ryan.<\/p>\n

But wait! Didn’t the president praise his new best friend Ryan for working so very hard to push through the ACA repeal legislation? And didn’t the speaker return the compliment by telling us that Trump busted his butt to close the deal with balky conservative GOP lawmakers? Aren’t these fellows friends for life now?<\/p>\n

The way I interpret Trump’s tweet, however, I have discerned quite another point of view from the president about the speaker.<\/p>\n

He implored Americans to watch a TV talk show in which the host calls for the speaker to quit. Hmmm. That doesn’t sound like much of a “bromance”<\/em> to me.<\/p>\n

The sum of what happened adds up to what many of us believe: The president wants to blame the speaker for the two men’s joint failure to make good on their No. 1 campaign promise.<\/p>\n\n

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Let’s try to add a couple of things up and see if we agree on the result. Donald J. Trump puts a tweet out Saturday morning after he and congressional Republicans fail to enact a repeal of the Affordable Care Act. In the tweet, the president encourages Americans to tune in to the Fox News … Continue reading Yep, 2 + 2 still equals 4<\/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":[13,14],"tags":[131,1424,1790,3524],"class_list":["post-20613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-aca","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news-channel","tag-paul-ryan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20613","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=20613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20615,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20613\/revisions\/20615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}