{"id":40373,"date":"2019-12-19T02:03:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T02:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40373"},"modified":"2019-12-19T02:03:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T02:03:07","slug":"rep-gabbard-chokes-on-impeachment-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40373","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Gabbard chokes on impeachment vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=TulsiGabbard%20%23POTUS%20%23MAGA%20%23impeachment&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Man, I hate thinking this about a military veteran who is running for the presidency of the United States \u2026 but it looks as though Rep. Tulsi Gabbard exhibited a cowardly trait in voting &#8220;present&#8221; on whether to impeach Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Gabbard&#8217;s vote will need some explanation. I am sure the media that are covering her presidential campaign will be primed to ask her about that non-vote.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t even know what a &#8220;present&#8221; vote is supposed to mean. Was she unwilling to vote on either side of the two impeachment articles? Was she undecided? Why not just, um, not vote?<\/p>\n<p>I might have been willing to give Rep. Gabbard some serious consideration as a Democratic candidate for president.<\/p>\n<p>Until tonight.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=TulsiGabbard%20%23POTUS%20%23MAGA%20%23impeachment&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, I hate thinking this about a military veteran who is running for the presidency of the United States \u2026 but it looks as though Rep. Tulsi Gabbard exhibited a cowardly trait in voting &#8220;present&#8221; on whether to impeach Donald J. Trump. Gabbard&#8217;s vote will need some explanation. I am sure the media that are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40373\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rep. Gabbard chokes on impeachment vote<\/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":[2253,8978],"class_list":["post-40373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-impeachment","tag-tulsi-gabbard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40373","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=40373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40374,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40373\/revisions\/40374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}