{"id":6594,"date":"2017-08-11T07:49:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T11:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6594"},"modified":"2017-08-11T07:49:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T11:49:30","slug":"vengeance-is-mine-saith-the-donald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6594","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Vengeance is mine,&#8221; saith The Donald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump, Cartoon Character-in-Chief, approvingly re-tweeted this morning some FOX News links to stories warning Senators that they&#8217;d better fall in line.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Senators learn the hard way about the fallout from turning on Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wq8Im1cHpy\">https:\/\/t.co\/wq8Im1cHpy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FOX &amp; friends (@foxandfriends) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foxandfriends\/status\/895930320742166528\">August 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump fires new warning shot at McConnell, leaves door open on whether he should step down <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tJIRc0usWl\">https:\/\/t.co\/tJIRc0usWl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FOX &amp; friends (@foxandfriends) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foxandfriends\/status\/895922768772042753\">August 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So: A sycophantic news outlet with less credibility than a Baptist preacher warns the Senate to do as it&#8217;s told, and Trump re-tweets it.  This probably is thrilling to Trump&#8217;s dwindling base, but sane and decent-minded adults ought to wonder if Trump is aware that the Senate is an autonomous and co-equal branch of government, by design &#8212; and that the point of that design is erect a barrier that impedes swaggering yahoos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump, Cartoon Character-in-Chief, approvingly re-tweeted this morning some FOX News links to stories warning Senators that they&#8217;d better fall in line. Senators learn the hard way about the fallout from turning on Trump https:\/\/t.co\/wq8Im1cHpy &mdash; FOX &amp; friends (@foxandfriends) &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=6594\">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\/6594"}],"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=6594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6596,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594\/revisions\/6596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}