{"id":38994,"date":"2019-09-25T15:17:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T15:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38994"},"modified":"2019-09-25T15:17:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T15:17:15","slug":"nothing-to-see-here-uhh-hardly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38994","title":{"rendered":"Nothing to see here? Uhh, hardly!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I guess we are now entering a battle of competing biases.<\/p>\n

If you’re a Republican member of Congress, you see the release of a transcript of a phone call between the president of the United States and the president of Ukraine as a nothing burger. Nothing to see there, they say, even though the transcript reveals that Donald Trump did ask the Ukrainians for help in bringing down a potential political adversary, former Vice President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

If you’re a Democratic member of Congress, you see the transcript as proof that the president broke the law, violated the Constitution and implicated himself in a potential impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

Hmm. I think I’ll side with Democrats on this one. No surprise, right?<\/p>\n

Still, I believe we have a serious matter that now needs to be picked apart and examined in the most detailed manner possible.<\/p>\n

What’s more, the White House has declined to release a whistleblower’s complaint to Congress, which I believe is a violation of U.S. law, which requires Congress to receive this information.<\/p>\n

This story is playing out in real time in a manner that, to be totally candid, is taking my breath away.<\/p>\n

The impeachment train is threatening to become a runaway train.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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I guess we are now entering a battle of competing biases. If you’re a Republican member of Congress, you see the release of a transcript of a phone call between the president of the United States and the president of Ukraine as a nothing burger. Nothing to see there, they say, even though the transcript … Continue reading Nothing to see here? Uhh, hardly!<\/span> →<\/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":[1424,2505,7793,4998],"class_list":["post-38994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-joe-biden","tag-trump-impeachment","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38994","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=38994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38995,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38994\/revisions\/38995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}