{"id":1324,"date":"2007-04-19T11:10:08","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T17:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2017-06-06T07:16:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T13:16:24","slug":"betraying-thomas-jefferson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/betraying-thomas-jefferson\/","title":{"rendered":"Betraying Thomas Jefferson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><em><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><a class=\"imagelink\"  href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/thomas-jefferson1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/thomas-jefferson.thumbnail1.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>by <a href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/author631.html\">Dave Lindorff<\/a><\/font><\/em><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"1\">, <a href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/www.opednews3.com\">http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">The enemies of the Constitution are growing in number and are to be found now, not just in the White House and the Congress, but also in state capitals, from Washington to Vermont.<\/p>\n<p>Not only do we have a president and vice president who are almost daily undermining and rending at the fabric of the Constitution. Not only do we have Democratic Party leaders actively barring the party&#8217;s elected representatives from standing up to the president by submitting bills of impeachment, as called for in the Constitution.<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">We now have Democratic Party leaders in state legislatures betraying Founder Thomas Jefferson, by sabotaging grassroots efforts to get joint legislative resolutions passed demanding the start of impeachment proceedings in the House.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dave Lindorff, http:\/\/www.opednews.com\/ The enemies of the Constitution are growing in number and are to be found now, not just in the White House and the Congress, but also in state capitals, from Washington to Vermont. 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