{"id":45788,"date":"2020-12-29T18:06:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T18:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45788"},"modified":"2020-12-29T18:06:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T18:06:57","slug":"memo-to-djt-its-called-check-and-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45788","title":{"rendered":"Memo to DJT: It&#8217;s called &#8216;check and balance&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23USConstitution%20%23checkandbalance&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/constitution-founding-fathers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45477\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/constitution-founding-fathers-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/constitution-founding-fathers-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/constitution-founding-fathers-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/constitution-founding-fathers-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/constitution-founding-fathers-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/constitution-founding-fathers.jpg 1913w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump is getting a real-time lesson on just how the federal government is supposed to work.<\/p>\n<p>The president had vetoed a bill aimed at providing money for the Defense Department and the U.S. House of Representatives has just overridden that veto with an overwhelming, veto-proof tally. Trump&#8217;s response? It was to lash out at Republicans who joined their Democratic colleagues in overriding the veto.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/12\/29\/politics\/donald-trump-house-votes\/index.html\">Trump lashes out at Republicans after they override his veto &#8211; CNNPolitics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You see, here&#8217;s the deal &#8230; <em>Donald.<\/em> A president has to contend at times with another branch of government flexing its considerable musculature. That&#8217;s what happened in this instance. It didn&#8217;t set well with the Autocrat Wanna Be in Chief.<\/p>\n<p>That GOP members would lock arms with Democrats on the defense matter is a clear signal of Trump&#8217;s waning power as his term as president comes to a welcome end.<\/p>\n<p>Trump ain&#8217;t going out quietly, to be sure.<\/p>\n<p>But as the saying goes &#8212; or as it might go: That&#8217;s why the nation&#8217;s framers built these checks into the Constitution &#8230; to prevent presidents from becoming <em>dictators.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23USConstitution%20%23checkandbalance&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Donald J. Trump is getting a real-time lesson on just how the federal government is supposed to work. The president had vetoed a bill aimed at providing money for the Defense Department and the U.S. House of Representatives has just overridden that veto with an overwhelming, veto-proof tally. Trump&#8217;s response? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45788\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Memo to DJT: It&#8217;s called &#8216;check and balance&#8217;<\/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":[939,5043],"class_list":["post-45788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-checks-and-balances","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45788","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=45788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45789,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45788\/revisions\/45789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}