{"id":40990,"date":"2021-01-12T10:52:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T15:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=40990"},"modified":"2021-01-12T10:52:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T15:52:26","slug":"silliness-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=40990","title":{"rendered":"Silliness In Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a while, you have to wonder why Democrats in Congress are so anxious to get President Trump out of the White House. He has eight days left to serve as President, can&#8217;t they just leave him alone? I guess not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/republican-blocks-house-from-bringing-up-25th-amendment-bill_3652031.html?utm_source=newsnoe&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=breaking-2021-01-11-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Epoch Times<\/a> reported yesterday that Representative Alex Mooney, a Republican from West Virginia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/republican-blocks-house-from-bringing-up-25th-amendment-bill-forcing-vote\/ar-BB1cEm20?ocid=st\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blocked<\/a> Democrats from introducing a resolution via unanimous consent to call on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Democrat-backed resolution calls on Pence and the Cabinet to \u201cdeclare what is obvious to a horrified Nation: That the President is unable to successfully discharge the duties and powers of his office.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;Mooney <a href=\"https:\/\/mooney.house.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/congressman-alex-x-mooney-objects-speaker-pelosi-s-attempt-call-vice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Pelosi \u201cshould not attempt to adopt a resolution of this magnitude without any debate on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives,\u201d noting that \u201cit is wrong to have sent members of Congress home and then try to adopt without any debate a precedent-setting resolution that could imperil our Republic. The U.S. House must never adopt a resolution that demands the removal of a duly elected president, without any hearings, debate, or recorded votes.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whatever happened to the Democrat&#8217;s calls for unity? I don&#8217;t think misusing the 25th Amendment to unlawfully remove a Republican President creates unity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a while, you have to wonder why Democrats in Congress are so anxious to get President Trump out of the White House. He has eight days left to serve as President, can&#8217;t they just leave him alone? I guess &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=40990\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12973,735,853,12727,12407],"class_list":["post-40990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-25th-amendment","tag-congress","tag-democrats","tag-speaker-nancy-pelosi","tag-the-epoch-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40991,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40990\/revisions\/40991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}