{"id":30862,"date":"2018-07-09T19:59:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T19:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30862"},"modified":"2018-07-09T19:59:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T19:59:58","slug":"self-awareness-mr-majority-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30862","title":{"rendered":"Self-awareness, Mr. Majority Leader?"},"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\/06\/mcconnellmitch_061218gn_lead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30355\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/mcconnellmitch_061218gn_lead-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/mcconnellmitch_061218gn_lead-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/mcconnellmitch_061218gn_lead.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I could barely contain myself. I wanted to toss a shoe at the TV set as I listened to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell condemn what he called &#8220;far left&#8221; resistance to whomever Donald J. Trump would appoint to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Why, he just cannot fathom how these groups could make such judgments without even knowing who the president plans to select.<\/p>\n<p>Wow! Does the majority leader &#8212; who made his remarks in a Senate floor speech &#8212; not remember what he said <em>immediately<\/em> after Antonin Scalia died in early 2016, creating a vacancy on the high court?<\/p>\n<p>Let me remind him. About an hour after Justice Scalia died, McConnell declared that no one whom President Obama would appoint would get a hearing and a confirmation vote. He declared the president&#8217;s pick dead and buried. Obama had nearly a year left in office when McConnell mounted his successful obstruction campaign.<\/p>\n<p>So now he is accusing lefties of pre-judging any appointment that would come from Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone else see the irony of this idiocy? He is leveling an accusation against a political opponent that he could have leveled against <em>himself<\/em> when the previous president sought to fulfill his constitutional responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>This is rich.<\/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>I could barely contain myself. I wanted to toss a shoe at the TV set as I listened to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell condemn what he called &#8220;far left&#8221; resistance to whomever Donald J. Trump would appoint to the Supreme Court. Why, he just cannot fathom how these groups could make such judgments &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30862\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Self-awareness, Mr. Majority Leader?<\/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":[412,540,1424,3099,6363,5051],"class_list":["post-30862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-antonin-scalia","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-scotus","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30862","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=30862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30864,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30862\/revisions\/30864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}