{"id":33627,"date":"2021-02-09T12:30:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T18:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=33627"},"modified":"2021-02-10T13:20:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T19:20:42","slug":"what-say-you-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/09\/what-say-you-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"What say you, Senate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1868<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Congress says a president can&#8217;t fire a cabinet officer.<\/p>\n<p>President fires cabinet officer.<\/p>\n<p>House: Impeach the president!<\/p>\n<p>Senate: Nope<\/p>\n<p><strong>1972<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>President&#8217;s party carries out illegal operations against opposing party, followed by a cover-up that made use of government agencies.<\/p>\n<p>House: Impeach the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>President, &#8220;No, wait, I resign!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1998<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President has nookie, tries to worm out of it<\/p>\n<p>House: Impeach the president!<\/p>\n<p>Senate: For this?<\/p>\n<p><strong>2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President attempts to extort the leader of another country to help him to damage his most potent poltical rival in an upcoming election.<\/p>\n<p>House: Impeach the president!<\/p>\n<p>Senate: Nah.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President incites and organizes a mob of his followers to breach the US Capitol in order to stop the process of transition to a duly elected president and place a non-elected individual at the head of government, abrogating Article II of the of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>House: Impeach the president<\/p>\n<p>Senate: &#8230;.. well?  What say you, Senate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1868 Congress says a president can&#8217;t fire a cabinet officer. President fires cabinet officer. House: Impeach the president! Senate: Nope 1972<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6205],"tags":[1652],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/capitolattack.png?fit=333%2C327&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-8Kn","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33627"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33633,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33627\/revisions\/33633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}