{"id":176179,"date":"2020-08-16T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/08\/16\/vacation-cancelled\/"},"modified":"2020-08-16T19:31:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T00:31:00","slug":"vacation-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/08\/16\/vacation-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacation Cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Nancy Pelosi has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/aug\/17\/us-postal-service-crisis-pelosi-recalls-house-early-to-fight-election-sabotage\">recalled the house from recess to deal with the Trump administration&#8217;s attempt to sabotage the US Post office to sabotage postal voting<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/nancy-pelosi\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a> is recalling the US House of Representatives early from its summer recess in a bid to protect the US Postal Service from efforts to block funding and suppress mail-in voting in November\u2019s election. <\/p>\n<p>Several states were also considering taking legal action to stop the service being run down to a level where it cannot deliver enough mail-in ballots in November, when almost half the country is expected to vote by post because of the coronavirus pandemic. <\/p>\n<p>Pelosi said the House would return later this week to vote on a bill prohibiting the USPS from changing its operations or service levels from what it had in place at the start of 2020. Previously, the House had not been scheduled to vote until 15 September. <\/p>\n<p>She said late on Sunday that Donald Trump was trying to sabotage the election by manipulating the postal service, and called postmaster general Louis DeJoy \u201ca complicit crony\u201d by bringing in changes that degrades the service and delayed mail.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Her comments echoed those of Bernie Sanders, who told NBC\u2019s Meet the  Press on Sunday that Trump\u2019s attacks on mail-in voting and his  administration\u2019s efforts to block funds for the US post office amounted  to \u201c<a data-link-name=\"in body link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/aug\/16\/bernie-sanders-trump-attacks-mail-in-voting-crisis-for-us-democracy\">a crisis for American democracy<\/a>\u201d ahead of the November presidential election. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Needless to say, Mitch McConnell has no plans to bring the Senate back into session, because he doesn&#8217;t give a sh%$.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy Pelosi has recalled the house from recess to deal with the Trump administration&#8217;s attempt to sabotage the US Post office to sabotage postal voting: Speaker Nancy Pelosi is recalling the US House of Representatives early from its summer recess in a bid to protect the US Postal Service from efforts to block funding and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[470,447,368,375,449,405,471],"class_list":["post-176179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-communications","tag-congress","tag-corruption","tag-elections","tag-legislation","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176179"}],"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=176179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}