{"id":40420,"date":"2019-12-22T03:10:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T03:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40420"},"modified":"2019-12-22T03:10:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T03:10:33","slug":"this-sotu-speech-will-be-one-for-the-books-believe-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40420","title":{"rendered":"This SOTU speech will be one for the books &#8230; believe it!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=SOTU%20%23MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%23Congress%20%23Trumpimpeachment&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BBYcVIi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40402\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BBYcVIi-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BBYcVIi-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BBYcVIi-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BBYcVIi.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When do you remember the bizarre juxtaposition of a president&#8217;s political predicament and a State of the Union speech before a joint congressional session and, indeed, before the entire world?<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump gets to deliver a State of the Union speech in early February while being impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors; or, the Senate trial required by the House of Representatives impeachment will have concluded and Trump will still be president; or the trial won&#8217;t yet have begun, but it will hang over the joint session like the proverbial storm cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Holy smokes, man!<\/p>\n<p>Trump will get to deliver his version of what he thinks of the condition of our nation. He&#8217;ll be speaking more than likely to roughly half the chamber. That would be the Republicans who support him. He won&#8217;t give much of a damn about the Democrats who will be sitting on their hands (more than likely) during the applause lines Trump will deliver from the podium.<\/p>\n<p>It has been customary for members of the House and Senate of the president&#8217;s own party to whoop and cheer his comments while the &#8220;loyal opposition&#8221; sits quietly. You can bet the farm\/ranch\/mortgage\/your life savings that we&#8217;ll see that in spades during the upcoming State of the Union speech.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be a bizarre event. Yes, it&#8217;ll be worth watching.<\/p>\n<p>Although I hate making predictions of this sort, I am pretty sure the president is going to make quite the ruckus about impeachment while he stands before the nation. I will await the reaction from the legislators assembled before him.<\/p>\n<p>Get the popcorn ready.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=SOTU%20%23MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%23Congress%20%23Trumpimpeachment&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When do you remember the bizarre juxtaposition of a president&#8217;s political predicament and a State of the Union speech before a joint congressional session and, indeed, before the entire world? Donald Trump gets to deliver a State of the Union speech in early February while being impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors; or, the Senate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40420\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This SOTU speech will be one for the books &#8230; believe it!<\/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":[4401,7793],"class_list":["post-40420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-state-of-the-union","tag-trump-impeachment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40420","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=40420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40421,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40420\/revisions\/40421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}