{"id":27528,"date":"2018-01-20T01:49:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T01:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27528"},"modified":"2018-01-20T01:49:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T01:49:40","slug":"waiting-history-making-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27528","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for history-making shutdown"},"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\/2018\/01\/government-shutdown.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27531\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/government-shutdown-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/government-shutdown-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/government-shutdown.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald John Trump Sr. and his Republican allies in Congress are poised to make history.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who&#8217;s also a Republican (allegedly), and the GOP leaders on Capitol Hill well might shut down the government for the first time while the government is run by members of a single political party.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. Republicans have one of their own in the White House and they control both chamber of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re now poised to oversee the shuttering of many agencies within the federal government because they cannot agree with Democrats on a way to fund the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>The 2013 shutdown occurred with a Democrat in the White House and Republicans in control of Congress. The split-power arrangement also was in play for previous government shutdowns.<\/p>\n<p>This time it&#8217;s different. Ain&#8217;t it great? Actually, no. It isn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s a shameful demonstration of incompetence.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t heap all the blame on Republicans. Democrats are a party to this ridiculous game of chicken as well. They are hanging tough on a bill that includes a remedy for the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals matter, or DACA. They are nose to nose with the GOP, which wants money to finance construction of a wall along our border with Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Back to my original point.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re quite possibly seeing history in the making.<\/p>\n<p>It makes me ashamed of my government that might lead us to this ridiculous moment.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Republicans.<\/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>Donald John Trump Sr. and his Republican allies in Congress are poised to make history. Trump, who&#8217;s also a Republican (allegedly), and the GOP leaders on Capitol Hill well might shut down the government for the first time while the government is run by members of a single political party. That&#8217;s right. Republicans have one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27528\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Waiting for history-making shutdown<\/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":[849,1424,1941,1978],"class_list":["post-27528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-capitol-hill","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-government-shutdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27528","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=27528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27532,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27528\/revisions\/27532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}