{"id":2845,"date":"2006-05-17T23:25:41","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T03:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2845"},"modified":"2007-09-08T16:28:59","modified_gmt":"2007-09-08T23:28:59","slug":"conyers-opeds-in-wapo-on-impeachment-and-our-electoral-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2845","title":{"rendered":"Conyers Op\/Eds in WaPo on Impeachment and our Electoral System&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/05\/17\/AR2006051701880.html\">John Conyers op\/eds<\/a> in tomorrow&#8217;s <i>WaPo<\/i> on Impeachment. Or a lack thereof. Or otherwise responds to the strawman nonsense from the Republicans of late running on the notion that a vote for Dems this fall is a vote for impeachment of Bush by the incoming Judiciary Committee Chair, John Conyers.<\/p>\n<p>While it may ultimately turn out to be a vote for impeachment, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney will have only themselves to blame. Not John Conyers.<\/p>\n<p>And, as one might expect, his response in <i>WaPo<\/i> to those sad charges and transparently desperate attempts to scare America, displays his usual grace, dignity and old-style statesmanship&#8230;in stark contrast to the nattering nabobs of fear-mongering that are today&#8217;s disgraceful Congressional Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Not to give anything away, since we hope you&#8217;ll <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/05\/17\/AR2006051701880.html\">read the whole thing<\/a>, but the last line underscores why John Conyers is a hero for all times&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Most important, before we have another presidential election, I believe we need to pass laws protecting the integrity of our electoral system &#8212; the very foundation of our democracy.<\/div>\n<p>Bravo. And thank you, sir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Conyers op\/eds in tomorrow&#8217;s WaPo on Impeachment. Or a lack thereof. Or otherwise responds to the strawman nonsense from the Republicans of late running on the notion that a vote for Dems this fall is a vote for impeachment of Bush by the incoming Judiciary Committee Chair, John Conyers. While it may ultimately turn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,192,178,129,211,53],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-accountability","category-impeachment","category-itmfa","category-john-conyers","category-washington-post","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}