{"id":11694,"date":"2020-02-02T11:22:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T16:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11694"},"modified":"2020-02-02T11:31:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T16:31:47","slug":"the-purge-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11694","title":{"rendered":"The purge begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney, who thought that the Senate ought to call witnesses and at least <i>appear<\/i> to be conducting a trial of the President, has been <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2020\/02\/meanie-matt-schlapp-disinvites-mitt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disinvited<\/a> from this year&#8217;s CPAC meeting.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: The &quot;extreme conservative&quot; and Junior Senator from the great state of Utah, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorRomney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenatorRomney<\/a> is formally NOT invited to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CPAC2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CPAC2020<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f35tYy73V1\">pic.twitter.com\/f35tYy73V1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Matt Schlapp (@mschlapp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mschlapp\/status\/1223379382003294208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The GOP has degenerated into a cult.  Do yourself, and your country, a favor during the next few weeks and read William Shirer&#8217;s <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/servlet\/SearchResults?sts=t&#038;cm_sp=SearchF-_-home-_-Results&#038;kn=&#038;an=shirer&#038;tn=the+nightmare+years&#038;isbn=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Nightmare Years<\/a><\/i>; you ought to be deeply frightened by our cowardly Senate&#8217;s refusal to do its duty, and that failure stands to be immensely consequential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt Romney, who thought that the Senate ought to call witnesses and at least appear to be conducting a trial of the President, has been disinvited from this year&#8217;s CPAC meeting. BREAKING: The &quot;extreme conservative&quot; and Junior Senator from the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11694\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11694"}],"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=11694"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11700,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11694\/revisions\/11700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}