{"id":8538,"date":"2017-02-01T08:21:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T12:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/?p=8538"},"modified":"2017-02-01T08:21:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T12:21:23","slug":"trump-keeps-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2017\/02\/trump-keeps-promise.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump keeps his promise &#8211; again"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>We can disagree with politicians. We can oppose what they do. \u00a0Free country and all. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/02\/trump-supreme-court-gorsuch-234471\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">But he\u2019s kept his promises<\/a>. Something that doesn\u2019t happen every day in our capital. \u00a0Especially promising is his strong stance against euthanasia and assisted suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Having garnered bipartisan support in the past, and almost universal praise from both sides of the aisle, any attempts to stop Gorsuch now will be partisan based. \u00a0It\u2019s probable that the Dems will be smart enough to let this pass, put up minor resistance for the base, but save their tokens for bigger fights down the road. \u00a0\u00a0But, as always, I could be wrong.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can disagree with politicians. We can oppose what they do. \u00a0Free country and all. \u00a0But he\u2019s kept his promises. 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