{"id":2064,"date":"2013-05-25T23:02:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T04:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2013-05-25T23:02:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T04:02:51","slug":"impeachment-its-not-going-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=2064","title":{"rendered":"“IMPEACHMENT—IT’S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN”"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have surrendered and lost the war on all fronts when many leaders across the spectrum openly say that impeachment is not going to happen—say that it wouldn’t do any good—say that it would be a waste of time—say that it wouldn’t succeed because of the Senate—say that it’s too hard to pull it off.<\/p>\n

What they are saying is we’ve given up on the Constitution because the other side is winning.<\/p>\n

If that is so, then we have a bunch of people in Washington and a bunch of people on the radio that need to apologize to the courageous men who made provision for redress of grievances for just such a time as this—the final act for balance of power.\u00a0 They expected us to use it—not avoid it like the plague as we’re doing now.<\/p>\n

I recently wrote on this site that impeachment is the last peaceful means of saving this country.\u00a0 I will find no satisfaction in saying, “I told you so.” a few short years from now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have surrendered and lost the war on all fronts when many leaders across the spectrum openly say that impeachment is not going to happen—say that it wouldn’t do any good—say that it would be a waste of time—say that it wouldn’t succeed because of the Senate—say that it’s too hard to pull it off. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-inspire_lifter","category-political-cultural","category-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2065,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions\/2065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}