{"id":27632,"date":"2018-02-28T16:29:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T21:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=27632"},"modified":"2018-02-28T16:30:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T21:30:27","slug":"the-more-things-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=27632","title":{"rendered":"The More Things Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The less they stay the same.<\/p>\n<p>2013:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2013\/01\/15\/rep-steve-stockman-threatens-to-impeach-obama-over-guns\/?utm_term=.492478d9b9ff\">The White House\u2019s<\/a> recent announcement they will use executive orders and executive actions to infringe on our constitutionally-protected right to keep and bear arms is an unconstitutional and unconscionable attack on the very founding principles of this republic,\" <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/steve-stockman-formally-indicted\">Stockman<\/a> said in a statement. \"I will seek to thwart this action by any means necessary, including but not limited to eliminating funding for implementation, defunding the White House, and even filing articles of impeachment.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live-news\/trump-meets-with-republicans-democrats-on-school-safety-live-stream-updates\/\">Mr. Trump<\/a> suggested taking the guns \"early\" from people who display serious signs of mental illness, and then \"due process\" in court can come later.<\/p>\n<p>\"I like taking the guns early,\" the president said. \"... Take the guns first, go through due process second.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This declaration that Trump wants to violate the only Constitutional right the GOP actually cares about did not result in furious calls for Trump's immediate impeachment. Oddly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The less they stay the same. 2013: \"The White House\u2019s recent announcement they will use executive orders and executive actions to infringe on our constitutionally-protected right to keep and bear arms is an unconstitutional and unconscionable attack on the very founding principles of this republic,\" Stockman said in a statement. \"I will seek to thwart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thesecondfear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27632"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27634,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27632\/revisions\/27634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}