{"id":48147,"date":"2021-05-29T02:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48147"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:46:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:46:00","slug":"party-of-lincoln-becomes-party-of-cowards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48147","title":{"rendered":"Party of Lincoln becomes Party of Cowards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GOP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47977\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GOP-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GOP-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GOP-1024x532.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GOP-768x399.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GOP-1536x798.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GOP.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By John Kanelis<\/strong> \/ <a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ah, yes. Here we are with the Party of Lincoln now standing tall as the party of cowardly fealty to a fraud posing as one of their own.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all I can surmise now that the Republican Party leaders in Congress have torpedoed a bill that would create a bipartisan commission to study the causes, effects and consequences of the Jan. 6 insurrection that could have toppled our democratic government.<\/p>\n<p>Congressional Republicans have stonewalled a move by Democrats to create a commission comprising members of both major parties that would have sought to lay bare all the events leading up to the insurrection.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP is now the party that is beholden to the cultist who sat as president for a term that ended in January. Donald Trump has bullied, blustered and bellowed his way into the skulls of politicians who now do not dare do anything to anger the ex-POTUS.<\/p>\n<p>We are witnessing a shameful abrogation of the oath they all took when they assumed office.<\/p>\n<p>These men and women signed on to a once-great political party that used to fight for equal rights for all Americans. It now fights to protect the backside of a politician foments the Big Lie about alleged electoral &#8220;theft.&#8221; Donald Trump doesn&#8217;t want a bipartisan commission to examine the intricate details of an event that threatened the safety of politicians doing their constitutional duty, which was to certify the results of a presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican Party has become a haven for cowards.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Kanelis \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Ah, yes. Here we are with the Party of Lincoln now standing tall as the party of cowardly fealty to a fraud posing as one of their own. That&#8217;s all I can surmise now that the Republican Party leaders in Congress have torpedoed a bill that would create a bipartisan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48147\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Party of Lincoln becomes Party of Cowards<\/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":[7225,9593,1941,2280,5994],"class_list":["post-48147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2020-election","tag-dc-riot","tag-gop","tag-insurrection","tag-party-of-lincoln"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48147","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=48147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48148,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48147\/revisions\/48148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}