{"id":9567,"date":"2019-01-16T09:59:39","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T14:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9567"},"modified":"2019-01-16T09:59:39","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T14:59:39","slug":"when-you-call-a-blowhards-bluff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=9567","title":{"rendered":"When you call a blowhard’s bluff"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Real Clear Politics<\/i> average of polls is clear — Donald Trump owns the shutdown, even if he has tried to renege on his promise to be accountable.<\/p>\n

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This would not be a bad time to recall that multiple deals have been thrashed out, and won bipartisan approval, and Trump reneged at the last minute every single time<\/i>. If there were a grown-up in the Oval Office, or if Republicans were willing to shoulder their Constitutional obligations and act like grown-ups themselves by overriding a veto, the shutdown could end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Real Clear Politics average of polls is clear — Donald Trump owns the shutdown, even if he has tried to renege on his promise to be accountable. This would not be a bad time to recall that multiple deals … Continue reading →<\/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\/9567"}],"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=9567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9569,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9567\/revisions\/9569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}