{"id":26531,"date":"2017-11-28T21:25:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T21:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26531"},"modified":"2017-11-28T21:25:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T21:25:06","slug":"chuck-and-nancy-no-longer-pals-with-donald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26531","title":{"rendered":"Chuck and Nancy no longer pals with Donald"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/chuck-and-don.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25791\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/chuck-and-don-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/chuck-and-don-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/chuck-and-don.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hey, I thought Donald Trump had made new friends in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t he once say he and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi were partners in an effort to actually get some legislation approved?<\/p>\n<p>He called &#8217;em Chuck and Nancy. He supposedly worked out an agreement with them to keep the government functioning until early December.<\/p>\n<p>Now, though, the friendship is on the rocks. Surprised? Neither am I.<\/p>\n<p>He said today that he didn&#8217;t see a deal in the making that would prevent a government shutdown. Chuck and Nancy were supposed to go to the White House to meet with Republican congressional leaders &#8230; and the president.<\/p>\n<p>Then they backed out. They left their chairs empty at the White House conference room table.<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s to blame for the scuttling of this friendship? Who among them is the most stubborn? POTUS or Chuck and Nancy?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what needs to happen, though. The government funding measure is set to expire a week from this coming Friday. If the two sides don&#8217;t rekindle their friendship, then the feds are going to shut down the government.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of brinkmanship is not why voters elect these people. It&#8217;s damn sure not why they sign on to &#8220;serve the public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t they all be friends &#8230; again?<\/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>Hey, I thought Donald Trump had made new friends in Congress. Didn&#8217;t he once say he and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi were partners in an effort to actually get some legislation approved? He called &#8217;em Chuck and Nancy. He supposedly worked out an agreement with them to keep &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=26531\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chuck and Nancy no longer pals with Donald<\/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":[13],"tags":[7060,1112,1424,1941,1978,3178],"class_list":["post-26531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-charles-schumer","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-government-shutdown","tag-nancy-pelosi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26531","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=26531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26532,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26531\/revisions\/26532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}