{"id":29608,"date":"2019-11-21T07:17:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T12:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=29608"},"modified":"2019-11-21T07:17:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T12:17:46","slug":"why-are-republicans-so-obsessed-with-the-whistleblower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=29608","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Republicans So Obsessed With the Whistleblower?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/kevin-drum\/2019\/11\/why-are-republicans-so-obsessed-with-the-whistleblower-heres-why\/\">Kevin Drum knows<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here\u2019s the explanation: Republicans all know who the whistleblower is. What\u2019s more, a couple of years ago they had a minor run-in with this person on an unrelated issue. Since then, they\u2019ve compiled a 40-page dossier on the whistleblower and they\u2019re practically bursting with impatience to unload it all over Fox News. As you can imagine, there\u2019s nothing of real substance in this dossier, but they figure there\u2019s enough smoke and smears to distract attention from Donald Trump\u2019s crimes for a while.<\/p>\n<p>But first the whistleblower\u2019s name has to become public. None of the Republicans have the guts to just get up in the well of the House and say the name, and they\u2019re endlessly frustrated that no one else of any stature has said it either\u2014nor is any mainstream news outlet willing to say it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Drum knows: Here\u2019s the explanation: Republicans all know who the whistleblower is. What\u2019s more, a couple of years ago they had a minor run-in with this person on an unrelated issue. Since then, they\u2019ve compiled a 40-page dossier on the whistleblower and they\u2019re practically bursting with impatience to unload it all over Fox News. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29608","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=29608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29609,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29608\/revisions\/29609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}