{"id":181600,"date":"2016-05-09T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/09\/another-bag-full-of-cats-on-the-world-stage\/"},"modified":"2016-05-09T18:14:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T23:14:00","slug":"another-bag-full-of-cats-on-the-world-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/09\/another-bag-full-of-cats-on-the-world-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Bag Full of Cats on the World Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-latin-america-36248925\">Brazil<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Brazilian Senate has vowed to vote on the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff despite a ruling that a vote in the lower house was flawed.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Senate Speaker Renan Calheiros rejected the attempt by Waldir Maranhao, the lower house&#8217;s acting speaker, to halt the process.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mr Maranhao had called for a new vote in the lower house.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">But to boos and cheers in the Senate, Speaker Renan Calheiros called that decision illegal.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Senate is scheduled to vote on Wednesday on whether to start an impeachment trial.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The president of the Senate impeachment commission also said the vote would take place as scheduled.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">If Ms Rousseff loses, she will be suspended from office, pending a trial that could last six months. She faces allegations that her government violated fiscal rules.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In his decision, Mr Maranhao said there had been irregularities during the lower house session in which its members overwhelmingly voted in favour of the impeachment process going ahead.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">He said members of the lower house should not have publicly announced what their position was prior to the vote, and that it had been wrong of party leaders to instruct their members how to vote.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mr Maranhao called for a new vote in the lower house. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mr Maranhao, who opposed the impeachment process in the 17 April vote, only took over as the speaker of the lower house last week, after the previous speaker, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-latin-america-36213509\">Eduardo Cunha, was suspended.<\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mr Cunha, an outspoken critic of President Rousseff, led the impeachment drive against her.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The level of dysfunction here makes makes the Lewinski affair look like a Schoolhouse Rock episode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time, it&#8217;s Brazil: The Brazilian Senate has vowed to vote on the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff despite a ruling that a vote in the lower house was flawed.Senate Speaker Renan Calheiros rejected the attempt by Waldir Maranhao, the lower house&#8217;s acting speaker, to halt the process.Mr Maranhao had called for a new vote &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1009,1068,978,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-latin-america","category-politics","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181600"}],"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=181600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}