{"id":2093,"date":"2021-02-14T13:32:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T18:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.info\/blog\/?p=2093"},"modified":"2021-02-14T13:32:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T18:32:36","slug":"politics-as-usual-weak-and-disgusting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2021\/02\/14\/politics-as-usual-weak-and-disgusting\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics As Usual &#8211; Weak and Disgusting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m deeply offended by the way the Democratic Party tucked away all their furor and decided once again &#8211; this time when they had the power to do so &#8211; to not call witnesses in an impeachment trial. They are saying that those 7 Republican votes are an adequate moral victory. The Dems had a royal flush&#8230; and they folded.<br \/><br \/>The only way to prove it was a victory is way down the line: will those 7 get re-elected for their courage and the other 43 get voted out of office for their cowardice? I don&#8217;t see the GOP doing that.<br \/><br \/>The Dems do not know how to stick to their guns. Never did. And so there are still no consequences to the actions of powerful people.<br \/><br \/>In nature, there is no right or wrong, only consequences. This proves again that politics in Washington is unnatural.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m deeply offended by the way the Democratic Party tucked away all their furor and decided once again &#8211; this time when they had the power to do so &#8211; to not call witnesses in an impeachment trial. They are saying that those 7 Republican votes are an adequate moral victory. The Dems had a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2096,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2093\/revisions\/2096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}