{"id":42035,"date":"2020-04-03T20:26:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T20:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42035"},"modified":"2020-04-03T20:26:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T20:26:19","slug":"mitt-emerges-as-major-thorn-in-potuss-backside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42035","title":{"rendered":"Mitt emerges as major thorn in POTUS&#8217;s backside"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=Mitt%20%23pandemic%20%23MAGA%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/150615081319-mitt-romney-super-169.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35737\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/150615081319-mitt-romney-super-169-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/150615081319-mitt-romney-super-169-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/150615081319-mitt-romney-super-169-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/150615081319-mitt-romney-super-169-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/150615081319-mitt-romney-super-169.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The more I hear from Sen. Mitt Romney, the more I am liking what I hear.<\/p>\n<p>The Utah Republican was the lone member of his party to vote to convict Donald Trump of abuse of power in his Senate impeachment trial. Trump hates Mitt&#8217;s guts for voting his conscience, which tells me far more about Trump than it does about Sen. Romney.<\/p>\n<p>Now we have the junior senator telling Trump he&#8217;d better back off and let a bipartisan congressional committee conduct proper oversight of the $2.2 trillion relief package that is coming in response to the collapsing economy \u2026 which is a direct result of the coronavirus pandemic that is sweeping the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Romney put his name on a letter he co-wrote with Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., endorsing the notion of the oversight panel.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Trump will heed the senator&#8217;s call? Oh, probably not. I just am enjoying hearing a bona fide Republican politician challenge the <em>fake<\/em> Republican president on an important issue of government transparency.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=Mitt%20%23pandemic%20%23MAGA%20%23POTUS&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The more I hear from Sen. Mitt Romney, the more I am liking what I hear. The Utah Republican was the lone member of his party to vote to convict Donald Trump of abuse of power in his Senate impeachment trial. Trump hates Mitt&#8217;s guts for voting his conscience, which tells me far more about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42035\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mitt emerges as major thorn in POTUS&#8217;s backside<\/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":[11],"tags":[9236,3101,9261],"class_list":["post-42035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-mitt-romney","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42035","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=42035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42036,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42035\/revisions\/42036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}