{"id":40287,"date":"2019-12-13T15:54:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T15:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40287"},"modified":"2019-12-13T15:54:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T15:54:07","slug":"its-done-almost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40287","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s done &#8230; almost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=Trumpimpeachment%20%23POTUS%20%23MAGA%20%23abuseofpower%20%23obstructionofCongress&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/AAK6aOv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40288\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/AAK6aOv-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/AAK6aOv-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/AAK6aOv-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/AAK6aOv-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/AAK6aOv.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. House Judiciary Committee, to no one&#8217;s surprise, has just approved two articles of impeachment against Donald John Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The vote was 23-17. All committee Democrats voted &#8220;yes.&#8221; All of the panel&#8217;s Republicans voted &#8220;no.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One count alleges that Trump abused the power of the presidency by asking a foreign government for a political favor. The other count alleges obstruction of Congress, basing that article on Trump&#8217;s demand that all key White House aides ignore congressional subpoenas to testify before relevant committees.<\/p>\n<p>Of the two, I consider the obstruction article to be the most serious. That&#8217;s just me. I don&#8217;t count, given that I am not a member of Congress. I also would have voted to impeach Trump, but you knew that already.<\/p>\n<p>But now the matter goes to the full House. Spoiler alert: The Democratic House majority is likely to have enough stroke to impeach the president. Democrats might even lose a handful of votes from those in their party who represent Trump-leaning constituents back home.<\/p>\n<p>The deed is almost done.<\/p>\n<p>Then the Senate gets the matter. Trump will stand trial in a body controlled by Republicans. The Senate is likely to find Trump not guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors.<\/p>\n<p>The 2020 presidential election awaits. That&#8217;s when the <em>fun<\/em> really and truly begins.<\/p>\n<p>Get ready, ladies and gentlemen. The ride is going to be a rockin&#8217; and a rollin&#8217; affair.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=Trumpimpeachment%20%23POTUS%20%23MAGA%20%23abuseofpower%20%23obstructionofCongress&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. House Judiciary Committee, to no one&#8217;s surprise, has just approved two articles of impeachment against Donald John Trump. The vote was 23-17. All committee Democrats voted &#8220;yes.&#8221; All of the panel&#8217;s Republicans voted &#8220;no.&#8221; One count alleges that Trump abused the power of the presidency by asking a foreign government for a political &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40287\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s done &#8230; almost<\/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":[129,1424,9093,3688,7793,5043],"class_list":["post-40287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-abuse-of-power","tag-donald-trump","tag-obstruction-of-congress","tag-potus","tag-trump-impeachment","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40287","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=40287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40289,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40287\/revisions\/40289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}