{"id":2381,"date":"2019-11-24T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T11:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/?p=2381"},"modified":"2019-12-22T16:00:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T20:00:05","slug":"impeachment-inquiry-day-4-waiting-for-truth-elections-correspondent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/2019\/11\/24\/impeachment-inquiry-day-4-waiting-for-truth-elections-correspondent\/","title":{"rendered":"Impeachment Inquiry Day 4: Waiting for Truth | Elections Correspondent"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Alexander Manzoni, Elections Correspondent<\/em><\/h4>\n

 <\/p>\n

No early morning news, today, here.
\nSpecial report: Ambassador Sondland is live.
\nAnd he says, that yes, there\u00a0was\u00a0<\/em>a quid pro quo.
\nUkraine controversy\u2014 impeachment hearings.
\nWhat seemed to be a dream is materializing
\nbefore our beleaguered eyes and senses.
\nInvestigation nation. Burisma.
\nSondland explains, \u201cEveryone was in the loop.\u201d<\/p>\n

Something<\/em>\u00a0stinks.<\/em>
\nWhat could it be?
\nTrump is guilty.
\nImpeachment inquiry.<\/p>\n

How long will it take
\nto shake the foundations? Tremors.
\nFissures crackling, spreading\u00a0over<\/em>\u00a0The Potomac\u2014\u00a0through\u00a0<\/em>The Swamp.<\/p>\n

Will it drain?<\/p>\n

Never
\nfully<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But perhaps an inch or two of sludge shall thence be skimmed off the top,
\nmuch like the politician
\nwho wet their prospective beaks\u2014
\ntaking\u00a0more than a taste<\/em>\u00a0to thereupon satiate their unyielding, primitive hunger-greed.<\/p>\n

Here cometh the first round of questions.
\nWe are waiting for\u00a0truth<\/em>, for recompense, waiting justice to\u00a0be served<\/em>\u2014
\nwaiting for the Republicons to finish defecating out of their mouths.
\nFor they are casting doubt,\u00a0in perpetuum<\/em>.
\nI cannot bear to listen.
\nThough I\u00a0must try.<\/em>
\nWe must survive.<\/u>
\n\u00a0<\/u>
\nAdam Schiff, with the crazy eyes, then questions Sondland about Ukraine.
\n\u201c\u2026logjams\u2026\u201d
\nThere, he said it again:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026logjams<\/em>\u2026\u201d
\nDaniel Goldman, house democratic counsel,
\nwith an\u00a0equally bizarre gaze\u00a0<\/em>goes up to the microphone.
\n\u201c\u2026A.$.A.P. Rocky\u2026\u201d
\nTrump couldn\u2019t stop talking about that rapper.
\nIf only national fiscal solvency caught his attention in such a way
\nwe might not be where we are headed today.<\/p>\n

[President Zelensky] \u201c\u2026loves your ass<\/em>\u2026\u201d
\n\u201cThat\u2019s how president Trump and I communicate,\u201d says Sondland.
\n\u201cA lot of four-letter words.\u201d
\nAnother conversation with Holmes, crude language. Crude presidency.
\nMay it end eventually\u2014 preferably\u00a0sooner than later.<\/em>
\nThe situation, it is\u00a0graver<\/em>\u00a0than what many of us thought possible.<\/p>\n

We are waiting for\u00a0truth<\/em>,
\nfor recompense,
\nwaiting justice
\nto\u00a0be<\/em>
\nserved.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Alexander Manzoni, Elections Correspondent   No early morning news, today, here. Special report: Ambassador Sondland is live. And he says, that yes, there\u00a0was\u00a0a quid …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":2382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,164,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-politics","category-the-white-house-occupant"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/impeachment-sondland-sworn-gty-ps-191120_hpMain_12x5_992.jpg?fit=992%2C414&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2388,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2381\/revisions\/2388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}