{"id":40491,"date":"2019-12-26T15:22:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-26T15:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40491"},"modified":"2019-12-26T15:22:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-26T15:22:01","slug":"does-he-really-want-to-know-what-i-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40491","title":{"rendered":"Does he really want to know what I think?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%23VanTaylor%20%23impeachment%20%23Senatetrial&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/poll.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40492\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/poll-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/poll-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/poll.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My congressman, Republican Van Taylor of Plano, wants to know what I think of the job Donald Trump is doing as president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. Let me think about this one. My first reaction was to ignore the poll. I am having second thoughts.<\/p>\n<p>I live in the Third Congressional District, which includes much of Collin County. It&#8217;s reliably Republican. Collin County voted for Trump in 2016, even though it borders Dallas County, which voted for Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Someone at Taylor&#8217;s office in Plano knows already how I feel about the president. It&#8217;s not good. He or she knows that. Yet the first-year congressman sent me this poll advisory via social media.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll just have to stipulate once again up front: I want Trump defeated at the next election; moreover, I want him convicted in the Senate trial that will convene eventually to determine whether he committed impeachable offenses by abusing is presidential power and by obstructing Congress. I believe he did both things.<\/p>\n<p>I am now thinking about answering the poll survey. I hope it gives me room to offer some commentary on whether I believe Donald Trump is unfit to serve as our head of state and commander in chief.<\/p>\n<p>I believe he is. Unfit, that is.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%23VanTaylor%20%23impeachment%20%23Senatetrial&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My congressman, Republican Van Taylor of Plano, wants to know what I think of the job Donald Trump is doing as president of the United States. Hmm. Let me think about this one. My first reaction was to ignore the poll. I am having second thoughts. I live in the Third Congressional District, which includes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40491\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Does he really want to know what I think?<\/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":[1424,1941,2253,8655,8271],"class_list":["post-40491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-impeachment","tag-senate-trial","tag-van-taylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40491","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=40491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40493,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40491\/revisions\/40493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}