{"id":1141,"date":"2017-03-21T16:30:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T21:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2017-05-16T16:50:39","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T21:50:39","slug":"read-your-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=1141","title":{"rendered":"Read Your Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hear a few people hopefully speaking of impeachment as the FBI investigates Trump and his campaign for possible collusion with Russia during the 2016 election.\u00a0Does anyone seriously\u00a0think impeachment would nullify the\u00a0election?! So Trump gets impeached. Now we have Pence. Trump minus the populist bits (infrastructure funding, trade protectionism) but with a heaping side of religious zealotry. I don&#8217;t care if the dude would\u00a0<em>personally<\/em> never be alone in the same room with a woman other than his wife.\u00a0People have all sorts of out-there principals that they uphold; so long as they don&#8217;t expect *me* to follow their dictate &#8230; who cares. But legislation banning sex ed, restricting access to birth control, bring back the sodomy laws &#8211; homosexual marriage isn&#8217;t illegal (so saith the Supreme Court) but so doing will meet the evidentiary requirements for\u00a0a surveillance warrant at your local PD. Hell, even if you lived in a\u00a0local and state jurisdiction where they just fail to investigate (and, don&#8217;t worry, the feds will threaten to withhold money from these &#8216;sanctuary cities&#8217; too) &#8230; watch out where you vacation. Scrutinize your connecting flights. Hope there isn&#8217;t an emergency landing. Point being, Pence isn&#8217;t actually better. He has discipline and knowledge of government. He has a shot of getting pet legislation through Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe they&#8217;re hoping that Pence goes down with the ship too &#8211; great, now we&#8217;ve got Ryan. May be a win on the legislating fundamentalist Christian morality front, but we&#8217;ve seen his health care plan seven years in the making. Anyone seriously think his tax plan, regulatory plan &#8230; are going to be any better.<\/p>\n<p>Then we&#8217;ve got Hatch &#8211; might be an improvement. Tillerson: government run by what&#8217;s best for oil companies! Of course next in line is\u00a0Mnuchin: government run by what is best for mega-banks. Eventually one of these people will stick around &#8211; several were not involved in Trump&#8217;s campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hear a few people hopefully speaking of impeachment as the FBI investigates Trump and his campaign for possible collusion with Russia during the 2016 election.\u00a0Does anyone seriously\u00a0think impeachment would nullify the\u00a0election?! So Trump gets impeached. Now we have Pence. Trump minus the populist bits (infrastructure funding, trade protectionism) but with a heaping side of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[202,147,203],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-government","tag-impeachment","tag-russiagate","tag-succession"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}