{"id":35178,"date":"2019-01-31T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35178"},"modified":"2019-01-31T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T15:34:00","slug":"what-gop-is-about-to-stand-up-to-potus-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35178","title":{"rendered":"What? GOP is about to stand up to POTUS? Wow!"},"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>I had to blink once or twice, shake my head a bit, clean my eyeglasses and rub the sleepy stuff out of my eyes to make sure I wasn&#8217;t hallucinating.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/427773-gop-poised-to-rebuke-trump\">The U.S. Senate Republican caucus<\/a> is poised to issue a stern rebuke of Donald J. Trump, who continues to exhibit shocking, stunning, jaw-dropping naivete regarding foreign policy crises.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate is planning to push forward an amendment that warns the president about the dangers of a &#8220;precipitous withdrawal&#8221; from Afghanistan, given the ongoing threat posed by the Taliban and the Islamic State.<\/p>\n<p>Trump (in)famously declared ISIS to be &#8220;defeated&#8221; in Syria. He is wrong. The Senate is going to respond by saying in a resolution that ISIS and al-Qaida pose a &#8220;continuing threat&#8221; to the United States and our allies around the world.<\/p>\n<p>So, there you go. The Senate GOP majority has finally grown a set of . . . you know.<\/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 had to blink once or twice, shake my head a bit, clean my eyeglasses and rub the sleepy stuff out of my eyes to make sure I wasn&#8217;t hallucinating. The U.S. Senate Republican caucus is poised to issue a stern rebuke of Donald J. Trump, who continues to exhibit shocking, stunning, jaw-dropping naivete regarding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35178\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What? GOP is about to stand up to POTUS? Wow!<\/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":[5],"tags":[1424,2348,2362,4209,4501,5051],"class_list":["post-35178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-senate-gop","tag-taliban","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35178","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=35178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35179,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35178\/revisions\/35179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}