{"id":39473,"date":"2019-11-02T03:22:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T03:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39473"},"modified":"2019-11-02T03:22:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T03:22:07","slug":"why-did-he-vote-against-this-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39473","title":{"rendered":"Why did he vote against this resolution?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23KAG2020%20%23VanTaylor%20%23POTUS%20%23impeachment&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/congressman-taylor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-39133\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/congressman-taylor-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/congressman-taylor-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/congressman-taylor-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/congressman-taylor.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am going to do something I don&#8217;t normally do.<\/p>\n<p>I intend to write my congressman a letter. I want to ask him: <em>Why did you vote against a resolution that seeks to do the very thing you and your colleagues demanded?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My congressman is a freshman Republican from Plano, Texas. He is an earnest young man. A Marine Corps veteran who served in Afghanistan. Van Taylor is not a loudmouth. He is a quiet House member. I know him a little bit and hope to get to know him better.<\/p>\n<p>The House approved a resolution that lays down the groundwork for the impeachment inquiry that seeks to learn all the facts about the allegations surounding Donald Trump. Did he break the law by soliciting a foreign government for a personal political favor? I think he did. Congress needs to establish it before filing articles of impeachment, which I believe it will do eventually.<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans accused Democrats of conducting a star chamber inquiry. The resolution aims to take away that complaint.<\/p>\n<p>But every GOP House member who voted this week on the measure voted &#8220;no.&#8221; How come?<\/p>\n<p>The inquiry will be made public. Trump&#8217;s legal team will get to cross-examine witnesses. It could become a terrific made-for-TV spectacle, which is right up Trump&#8217;s alley.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if Rep. Taylor will answer my letter. I hope he does. His staff might see this blog post, for all I know.<\/p>\n<p>I intend fully to keep\u00a0 you apprised of what he says.<\/p>\n<p>Or if he remains silent.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23KAG2020%20%23VanTaylor%20%23POTUS%20%23impeachment&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am going to do something I don&#8217;t normally do. I intend to write my congressman a letter. I want to ask him: Why did you vote against a resolution that seeks to do the very thing you and your colleagues demanded? My congressman is a freshman Republican from Plano, Texas. He is an earnest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=39473\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why did he vote against this resolution?<\/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":[9],"tags":[1424,7419,3688,7793,8271],"class_list":["post-39473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-maga","tag-potus","tag-trump-impeachment","tag-van-taylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39473","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=39473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39609,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39473\/revisions\/39609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}