{"id":38828,"date":"2020-01-31T08:46:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38828"},"modified":"2020-01-31T08:53:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T16:53:56","slug":"get-out-a-black-armband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/31\/get-out-a-black-armband\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Out a Black Armband"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I hate to say it, but it\u2019s time to get out a black armband, because a national day of shame is upon us.\u00a0 Since Senator Lamar Alexander [R-TN] decided to goose-step with his criminal Fuhrer, Donald Trump*, instead of representing his constituents, it appears that Bought Bitch Midnight Moscow Mitch is about to successfully hide his Fuhrer\u2019s crimes by blocking documents and witnesses by blocking documents and witnesses at the impeachment trial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block; background-image: none;\" title=\"0131AlexanderBitch\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/0131AlexanderBitch.jpg\" alt=\"0131AlexanderBitch\" width=\"750\" height=\"537\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The questioning phase is over. On Friday, the trial will resume at 1 p.m. Eastern, when senators will begin a debate over including additional witnesses and documents in the trial.<\/li>\n<li>Republicans have felt increasingly confident that they will have the support to block a vote to subpoena new witnesses, like the former national security adviser John R. Bolton, who Democrats argue could provide crucial new information. This was made more likely Thursday night when Senator Lamar Alexander, Republican of Tennessee, who was seen as a swing vote, announced that he would not support calling additional witnesses\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2020\/trump-impeachment-trial-01-31\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NY Times<\/a>&gt;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L1VHJpXZIvU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sen. Lamar Alexander Makes &#8216;Preposterous&#8217; Statement About Impeachment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/L1VHJpXZIvU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">If that isn&#8217;t impeachable conduct, then what the hell is?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5H2hhw5tCFQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sen. Jeff Merkley: This is a tragedy in every possible way<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/5H2hhw5tCFQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Jeff is my Senator. I worked on his campaign to help him oust Gordon &#8220;Goosestep&#8221; Smith [R-OR]. I could not agree with him more than this!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Finally, this is what Republicans are doing!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block; background-image: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/0808GOPDump.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #0000ff;\">RESIST!!<\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to say it, but it\u2019s time to get out a black armband, because a national day of shame is upon us.\u00a0 Since Senator Lamar Alexander [R-TN] decided to goose-step with his criminal Fuhrer, Donald Trump*, instead of representing his constituents, it appears that Bought Bitch Midnight Moscow Mitch is about to successfully hide <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/31\/get-out-a-black-armband\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3712,3721,3722,3848,3714],"class_list":["post-38828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-lies","tag-impeachment","tag-injustice","tag-video","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}