{"id":13596,"date":"2019-10-17T16:42:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T20:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=13596"},"modified":"2019-10-17T16:45:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T20:45:34","slug":"impeachment-bluff-who-holds-the-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/impeachment-bluff-who-holds-the-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Impeachment Bluff \u2013 Who Holds the Cards?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"708\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-17-Startpage-com-Search-results.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-17-Startpage-com-Search-results.png 708w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Screenshot_2019-10-17-Startpage-com-Search-results-300x197.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><figcaption>Image source &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertynation.com\/impeachment-bluff-who-holds-the-cards\/\">https:\/\/www.libertynation.com\/impeachment-bluff-who-holds-the-cards\/<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>LibertyNation<\/strong>, by  Sarah Cowgill &#8212; October 17, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>It\u2019s all about the bluff \u2013 or so it appears \u2013 as the House of Representatives declines to officially vote on pursuing formal <\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertynation.com\/five-questions-that-frighten-impeachment-crazy-dems\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>impeachment<\/em><\/a><em>  proceedings against President Trump. Armed with yet another in a series  of smoking guns \u2013 this time a shadowy whistleblower and a nothingburger  call to Ukraine \u2013 the Dems apparently cannot come to a consensus to  move forward.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>After a brief, closeted Democratic Caucus meeting, Speaker of the  House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) emerged with Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) to  announce:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThere is no requirement that we have a vote. So at this time, we will not be having a vote.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><em>President Trump has repeatedly called the continual threat of  impeachment \u201cillegitimate,\u201d daring the Dems to go on record, which may  have some Members of Congress afraid to do battle with the president as  the election nears. Pundits, strategists, and speculators are laying  odds that there aren\u2019t the votes \u2013 or perhaps the evidence \u2013 to back up  top Democrats\u2019 impeachment overtures. Suspicions are that this drama is  simply a way to keep the anti-Trump drumbeat alive as Dems attempt to  push an electoral string up a hill toward 2020. Some seat holders are in  <\/em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertynation.com\/red-state-dems-want-to-cool-down-the-impeachment-engine\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>vulnerable positions<\/em><\/a><em> in dominant red states and may be hedging bets until there is valid evidence.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including images, links and comments at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertynation.com\/impeachment-bluff-who-holds-the-cards\/\">https:\/\/www.libertynation.com\/impeachment-bluff-who-holds-the-cards\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LibertyNation, by Sarah Cowgill &#8212; October 17, 2019 Excerpt: It\u2019s all about the bluff \u2013 or so it appears \u2013 as the House of Representatives declines to officially vote on pursuing formal impeachment proceedings against President Trump. Armed with yet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/impeachment-bluff-who-holds-the-cards\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13599,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13596\/revisions\/13599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}