{"id":6014,"date":"2019-10-24T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=6014"},"modified":"2019-10-23T20:03:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T00:03:51","slug":"politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/politics\/","title":{"rendered":"POLITICS\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The\nimpeachment attempt, seen by some as a soft <em>coup\nd\u2019etat, <\/em>continues.&nbsp; At least some\n\u201cNever Trump\u201d Republicans are expected to join the Democrats in the effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hillary\nClinton hints that she\u2019d accept a draft nomination, while snidely accusing\nTulsi Gabbard and Jill Stein of colluding with Russia.&nbsp; Among the leading declared Democratic\nPresidential candidates, several have shot themselves in the feet.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>General \u201cMad\nDog\u201d Mattis is deftly sniping back at the President who dumped him, and\nsmoothly returning to the national stage.&nbsp;\nI thought Mattis was the most solid of Donald Trump\u2019s appointments, and\nwas very sorry to see him go. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It may be\ntime for Jill Stein to defect to the Democratic Party.&nbsp; And, who knows, since hypocrisy seems to be\nthe ruling theme in the Dems\u2019 philosophy, they might even resurrect Al Franken\nfrom #metoo disgrace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the\nimpeachment succeeds and Trump is toppled, the Republicans will have to move\nquickly to find a nominee.&nbsp; General\nMattis might have as good a chance as anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the\nstars could be in alignment for a uniquely American dream race next year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mad Dog 2020\nversus Franken\/Stein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The impeachment attempt, seen by some as a soft coup d\u2019etat, continues.&nbsp; At least some \u201cNever Trump\u201d Republicans are expected to join the Democrats in the effort. Hillary Clinton hints that she\u2019d accept a draft nomination, while snidely accusing Tulsi Gabbard and Jill Stein of colluding with Russia.&nbsp; Among the leading declared Democratic Presidential candidates, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6015,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6014\/revisions\/6015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}