{"id":11330,"date":"2019-11-07T10:36:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T15:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11330"},"modified":"2019-11-07T10:38:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T15:38:37","slug":"deranged-quote-for-the-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11330","title":{"rendered":"Deranged quote for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>The one path he [McConnell] cannot allow the Senate to follow is to hold a trial in which the House sends over its prosecutors to blather about the president\u2019s telephone call and quid pro quos for a few weeks, after which the Senate, entirely predictably, falls far short of the two-thirds vote needed to convict and remove. That way is all pain and no gain, except for endorsing the precedent of sham show trials.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2019\/11\/06\/senate-must-not-legitimize-houses-sham-impeachment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Radio host Hugh Hewitt<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is a lot of this kind of talk around, and I can think of only one explanation for it: Trump&#8217;s partisans know he&#8217;s guilty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The one path he [McConnell] cannot allow the Senate to follow is to hold a trial in which the House sends over its prosecutors to blather about the president\u2019s telephone call and quid pro quos for a few weeks, after &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11330\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11330"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11330"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11334,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11330\/revisions\/11334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}