{"id":175598,"date":"2021-01-13T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/01\/13\/only-10-republicans\/"},"modified":"2021-01-13T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T02:50:00","slug":"only-10-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/01\/13\/only-10-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 10 Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Better than the last time, but when Liz Cheney<\/span><\/b> is on the side of the angels, everything is fucked up and shit. I am talking, of course, about the fact that Donald John Trump has been impeached again<\/a>, only this time it’s egregious enough that some very bad people, like Cheney, have felt compelled to support the effort to remove him: <\/p>\n

The House impeached President Trump for inciting an insurrection against the government, and 10 Republicans joined Democrats to do so. Senator Mitch McConnell said he would not agree to use emergency powers to bring the Senate back into session for a trial before Jan. 19. <\/p>\n

The House on Wednesday impeached President Trump<\/a> for inciting a violent insurrection against the United States government, as 10 members of the president\u2019s party joined Democrats to charge him with high crimes and misdemeanors for an unprecedented second time.<\/p>\n

Reconvening under the threat of continued violence<\/a> and the protection of thousands of National Guard troops, the House was determined to hold Mr. Trump to account just one week before he was to leave office. At issue was his role in encouraging a mob that attacked the Capitol one week ago while Congress met to affirm President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.\u2019s victory, forcing lawmakers to flee for their lives in a deadly rampage.<\/p>\n

The House adopted a single article of impeachment<\/a>, voting 232 to 197 to charge Mr. Trump with \u201cinciting violence against the government of the United States\u201d and requesting his immediate removal from office and disqualification from ever holding one again.<\/p>\n

Ten Republicans joined Democrats in voting to impeach: Representatives Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the party\u2019s No. 3 leader in the House; Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington; John Katko of New York; Adam Kinzinger of Illinois; Fred Upton of Michigan; Dan Newhouse of Washington; Peter Meijer of Michigan; Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio; David Valadao of California; and Tom Rice of South Carolina.<\/p>\n

The defections were a remarkable break from the head of the party by Republicans, who voted unanimously against impeaching Mr. Trump just over a year ago.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

This time, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, was said to support the effort<\/a> as a means of purging his party of Mr. Trump, setting up a political and constitutional showdown that could shape the course of American politics when the nation remains dangerously divided. <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We live in interesting, and not in a good way, but in a Chinese curse way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Better than the last time, but when Liz Cheney is on the side of the angels, everything is fucked up and shit. I am talking, of course, about the fact that Donald John Trump has been impeached again, only this time it’s egregious enough that some very bad people, like Cheney, have felt compelled to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,573,560,374,421],"class_list":["post-175598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-impeach","tag-politics","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}