{"id":57803,"date":"2024-11-27T04:01:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T04:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57803"},"modified":"2024-11-27T04:01:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T04:01:55","slug":"will-senators-grow-some-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57803","title":{"rendered":"Will senators grow some courage?"},"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>Matt Gaetz is gone from Donald Trump&#8217;s newborn Cabinet, as he was toast from the moment the new POTUS announced him as attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, though, still is far from finding his way into the clear.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s got Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence, Robert Kennedy Jr. as head of health and human services, Pete Hegseth as defense secretary and maybe a half-dozen others with skeletons in their closets.<\/p>\n<p>Senators have the right to confirm these picks. Trump, though, also has the right to grant recess appointments if the Senate is adjourned. It&#8217;s fair to ask: Will the Senate allow Trump to launch a political flea-flicker by denying them the right under the Constitution to debate and then vote on these nominees?<\/p>\n<p>Something is whispering in my ear that senators won&#8217;t take kindly to being denied that right by a president who just might try some razzle-dazzle, particularly with the remaining troublesome appointees whose names are still under discussion.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my hope, anyway. The other option would be for them to roll over and allow Trump to flatten them on his way to the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see what our senators are up to doing &#8230; and whether they have stiffened their spines.<\/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>Matt Gaetz is gone from Donald Trump&#8217;s newborn Cabinet, as he was toast from the moment the new POTUS announced him as attorney general. Trump, though, still is far from finding his way into the clear. He&#8217;s got Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence, Robert Kennedy Jr. as head of health and human services, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57803\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Will senators grow some courage?<\/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":[795,1138,1424],"class_list":["post-57803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-cabinet","tag-constitution","tag-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57803","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=57803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57804,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57803\/revisions\/57804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}