{"id":41089,"date":"2020-02-05T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41089"},"modified":"2020-02-05T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T17:02:00","slug":"potus-speaker-have-destroyed-their-working-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41089","title":{"rendered":"POTUS, speaker have destroyed their working relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23Pelosi%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\/12\/BBXNGfC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40150\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BBXNGfC-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BBXNGfC-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/BBXNGfC.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It now seems almost quaint to look back on how speakers of the House and presidents of opposing political parties managed to set aside their partisan differences for the greater good.<\/p>\n<p>I can recall Democratic Speaker Tom Foley working with Republican President George H.W. Bush; then we had Republican Speaker Newt Gingrich and Democratic President Clinton finding a way to balance the budget; Democratic Speaker Tip O&#8217;Neill and Republican President Reagan had a legendary personal friendship that transcended their political differences.<\/p>\n<p>What we witnessed Tuesday night was a shattered relationship that looks to me to be beyond repair.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Donald Trump walked to the podium in the House chamber to deliver his State of the Union speech. He handed Speaker Nancy Pelosi a copy of his text; Pelosi extended her hand, but Trump refused to shake it. Then at the end of the speech, Pelosi stood up and tore up the text.<\/p>\n<p>Those two acts embody the government dysfunction at its worst.<\/p>\n<p>I get that Pelosi led the House impeachment effort against Trump. Then again, Gingrich did the same thing with Clinton; Newt led the GOP charge against the president, fought like the dickens to get him tossed, but the two of them managed to find a way to work on legislating and governing.<\/p>\n<p>These days? I&#8217;m beginning to fear our government might be bleeding from a mortal wound.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23Pelosi%20%23POTUS%20%23impeachment&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It now seems almost quaint to look back on how speakers of the House and presidents of opposing political parties managed to set aside their partisan differences for the greater good. I can recall Democratic Speaker Tom Foley working with Republican President George H.W. Bush; then we had Republican Speaker Newt Gingrich and Democratic President &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=41089\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">POTUS, speaker have destroyed their working relationship<\/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":[1424,3178],"class_list":["post-41089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-nancy-pelosi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41089","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=41089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41090,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41089\/revisions\/41090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}