{"id":39033,"date":"2019-09-28T20:48:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T20:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39033"},"modified":"2019-09-28T20:48:10","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T20:48:10","slug":"whether-to-impeach-and-risk-a-stunning-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39033","title":{"rendered":"Whether to impeach and risk a stunning setback"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23impeachment%20%23PBSNewsHour%20%23DavidBrooks%20%23MarkShields%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shields and Brooks on the politics of impeachment\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4kPVNUlXqJ4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>David Brooks and Mark Shields are two of the more thoughtful, insightful and provocative commentators anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks is a conservative columnist for the New York Times; Shields is a liberal syndicated columnist. Both men are regulars on PBS NewsHour, appearing on Fridays to offer their analysis of the week&#8217;s events.<\/p>\n<p>I am posting this segment to illustrate how Brooks (more or less) summarizes my own view of the notion of impeaching Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks appears to believe that Trump deserves to be impeached. Trump has asked a foreign government for help with his re-election effort. He has violated the constitutional oath he took when he became president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks, though, is leery of the result. He takes care to note that impeachment is a &#8220;political&#8221; exercise. Its intent is to remove a president from office. He doubts that even if the House of Representatives impeaches the president, the Senate won&#8217;t follow suit. He said that it&#8217;s a tall order to get 20 Republican senators to flip to the Democrats&#8217; side and vote to convict Trump of a &#8220;high crime and misdemeanor&#8221; in a Senate trial.<\/p>\n<p>Have a listen. Indeed, listen carefully to what these men have to say.<\/p>\n<p>We need some reasonable discourse. Not more hysteria.<\/p>\n<p>The nation appears to be heading down a dark corridor full of traps and tricks.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23impeachment%20%23PBSNewsHour%20%23DavidBrooks%20%23MarkShields%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Brooks and Mark Shields are two of the more thoughtful, insightful and provocative commentators anywhere. Brooks is a conservative columnist for the New York Times; Shields is a liberal syndicated columnist. Both men are regulars on PBS NewsHour, appearing on Fridays to offer their analysis of the week&#8217;s events. I am posting this segment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39033\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Whether to impeach and risk a stunning setback<\/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":[10],"tags":[1272,1424,2253,2917,3533],"class_list":["post-39033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-david-brooks","tag-donald-trump","tag-impeachment","tag-mark-shields","tag-pbs-newshour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39033","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=39033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39034,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39033\/revisions\/39034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}