{"id":36694,"date":"2019-04-24T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T00:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36694"},"modified":"2019-04-24T00:00:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T00:00:21","slug":"put-the-brakes-on-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36694","title":{"rendered":"Put the brakes on impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23impeachTrump%20%23GOP%20%23HouseDems%20%23Pelosi%20%40POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/senate_johnson_impeachment_trials_cc_img.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36695\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/senate_johnson_impeachment_trials_cc_img-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/senate_johnson_impeachment_trials_cc_img-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/senate_johnson_impeachment_trials_cc_img-768x484.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/senate_johnson_impeachment_trials_cc_img-1024x645.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/senate_johnson_impeachment_trials_cc_img.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s getting hard for me to keep pushing on the brake pedal while the governmental vehicle keeps moving toward impeaching Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>However, I have to insist that calls to launch immediate impeachment proceedings against the president are, at best, premature. At worst, they might be tantamount to a political death wish for those who oppose Donald Trump&#8217;s role as president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The House of Representatives likely has the votes to impeach the Idiot in Chief. The Senate does not have the votes &#8212; or the courage &#8211;to convict him of any sort of &#8220;high crime or misdemeanor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man appears to have at least attempted to obstruct justice in the Russia probe conducted by special counsel Robert Mueller, whose report chronicles a systematic effort to derail the probe. It well might be impeachable.<\/p>\n<p>However, the congressional wise men and women &#8212; led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi &#8212; are seeking to stop the impeachment talk until Congress does its own due diligence and investigates further what Mueller has concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi knows the score. She can count votes. She understands that impeachment is a two-step process. The first step is an easy one. The second one, the Senate trial, requires a huge leap over the two-thirds rule requiring conviction.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans still comprise a majority in the Senate. Does anyone really believe the GOP caucus has the stones to convict a president who has abused the awesome power of his office to end a serious investigation into the conduct of his presidential campaign?<\/p>\n<p>It won&#8217;t happen. Impeachment is a non-starter. At least for now.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23impeachTrump%20%23GOP%20%23HouseDems%20%23Pelosi%20%40POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s getting hard for me to keep pushing on the brake pedal while the governmental vehicle keeps moving toward impeaching Donald J. Trump. However, I have to insist that calls to launch immediate impeachment proceedings against the president are, at best, premature. At worst, they might be tantamount to a political death wish for those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36694\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Put the brakes on impeachment<\/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":[1424,2175,2253,3178,4209,7793],"class_list":["post-36694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-house-democrats","tag-impeachment","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-senate-gop","tag-trump-impeachment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36694","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=36694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36696,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36694\/revisions\/36696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}