{"id":13291,"date":"2021-05-07T14:20:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T18:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13291"},"modified":"2021-05-07T14:20:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T18:20:57","slug":"another-goper-censured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13291","title":{"rendered":"Another GOPer censured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, Liz Cheney isn&#8217;t the only GOPer whose sound character has put him or her <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.cincinnati.com\/amp\/4953443001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">beyond the pale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Ohio Republican Party&#8217;s leaders called on Rep. Anthony Gonzalez to <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">resign<\/span> for voting to impeach former President Donald Trump, a stunning rebuke of one of their own.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the party&#8217;s governing board called on Gonzalez, R-Rocky River, to resign in a divided vote. They also voted to censure Gonzalez and nine other members of Congress for &#8220;their votes to support the unconstitutional, politically motivated impeachment proceeding against President Donald J. Trump,&#8221; according to the resolution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There once were honorable conservatives in this country; famously, it was Senator Barry Goldwater (R, AZ) who went to the White House and told Richard Nixon he had to resign.<\/p>\n<p>That was a long time ago, though.  The GOP has since degenerated into a malice-eaten cult whose locus is a crude, buffoonish, gang-boss wanna-be.  I&#8217;m past worrying about the future of conservatism and the direction of public policy in this country; now I&#8217;m just worrying about the country.  When nearly half of a country&#8217;s citizens are unable to smell the sewage surrounding Trump &#8212; it&#8217;s in serious trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, Liz Cheney isn&#8217;t the only GOPer whose sound character has put him or her beyond the pale. The Ohio Republican Party&#8217;s leaders called on Rep. Anthony Gonzalez to resign for voting to impeach former President Donald Trump, a stunning &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13291\">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\/13291"}],"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=13291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13293,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13291\/revisions\/13293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}