{"id":177827,"date":"2019-05-29T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/29\/btw-while-we-are-talking-about-impeachment\/"},"modified":"2019-05-29T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T00:20:00","slug":"btw-while-we-are-talking-about-impeachment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/05\/29\/btw-while-we-are-talking-about-impeachment\/","title":{"rendered":"BTW, While We Are Talking About Impeachment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It should be noted that <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/445862-amash-gets-standing-ovation-at-first-town-hall-after-calling-for-trumps\">Representative Justin Amash (R-MI) got a standing ovation at a town hall after he announced that Trump should be impeached<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/justin-amash\">Justin Amash<\/a> (R-Mich.) received a standing ovation Tuesday evening at his first public event since becoming the first Republican to call for <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\">President Trump<\/a>&#8216;s impeachment. <\/p>\n<p>At a town hall in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Amash criticized House Republican leadership, including Minority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/kevin-mccarthy\">Kevin McCarthy<\/a> (R-Calif.), whom he called the \u201cso-called leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI read the Mueller report. I\u2019m sure he didn\u2019t read it,\u201d Amash said of McCarthy. \u201cHe resorted to ad hominem attacks; that\u2019s the kind of \u2018leadership\u2019 we now have in Congress.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;Nancy Pelosi needs to understand that her cowardice is neither good policy nor good politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It should be noted that Representative Justin Amash (R-MI) got a standing ovation at a town hall after he announced that Trump should be impeached: Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) received a standing ovation Tuesday evening at his first public event since becoming the first Republican to call for President Trump&#8216;s impeachment. At a town hall &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":[560,374],"class_list":["post-177827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-impeach","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177827"}],"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=177827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}