{"id":21637,"date":"2017-05-14T20:40:05","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T20:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21637"},"modified":"2017-05-14T20:40:05","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T20:40:05","slug":"gop-changes-rules-for-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21637","title":{"rendered":"GOP changes rules for the president"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Oh, how the rules have changed for presidential behavior.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times has published a fascinating list of do&#8217;s and don&#8217;ts that have been tossed asunder by Donald John Trump and his band of Trumpkins.<\/p>\n<p>I think my favorite item now allowed for the president, but which would have been grounds for impeachment by any predecessor is the shortest one: lie.<\/p>\n<p>Yet that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re getting from the 45th president of the United States. An endless string of lies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/13\/opinion\/sunday\/the-republicans-guide-to-presidential-behavior.html?_r=0\">The GOP changes the playbook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Take a moment to scan them on the link I&#8217;ve just posted.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;re as amazed as I am.<\/p>\n<p>As the Times notes: &#8220;It wasn\u2019t so long ago that Republicans in Congress cared about how a president comported himself in office. They cared a lot! The president is, after all, commander in chief of the armed forces, steward of the most powerful nation on earth, role model for America\u2019s children \u2014 and he should act at all times with the dignity his station demands. It\u2019s not O.K. to behave in a manner that demeans the office and embarrasses the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But, hey, he &#8220;tells it like it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, how the rules have changed for presidential behavior. The New York Times has published a fascinating list of do&#8217;s and don&#8217;ts that have been tossed asunder by Donald John Trump and his band of Trumpkins. I think my favorite item now allowed for the president, but which would have been grounds for impeachment by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21637\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GOP changes rules for the president<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[14],"tags":[1424,3360,3688],"class_list":["post-21637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-ny-times","tag-potus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21637","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=21637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21638,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21637\/revisions\/21638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}