{"id":22375,"date":"2017-06-14T13:49:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T13:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22375"},"modified":"2017-06-14T13:49:17","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T13:49:17","slug":"mayhem-pre-empts-policy-debate-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22375","title":{"rendered":"Mayhem pre-empts policy debate — for now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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An incident involving the national pastime, a baseball game practice, has delivered us a reprieve from the partisan battles that have roiled Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n

For the immediate future, Republicans and Democrats are speaking as members of a single political party.<\/p>\n

Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise is injured from a gunshot wound inflicted by a shooter who opened fire on the GOP baseball practicing for a charity game scheduled for the weekend against the Democratic team; he is one of five victims wounded in this senseless act.<\/p>\n

I don’t know about you, but I find it utterly incomprehensible that an act like this could occur in such a setting. Then again, this is 21st-century America in a time of terrible political division and rancor.<\/p>\n

We don’t know whether politics motivated the shooter. Authorities haven’t yet established any kind of motive to what this individual did.<\/p>\n

There is no little news to be gleaned from this event. One positive element is that Rep. Scalise and the other victims are going to make a full recovery from their wounds.<\/p>\n

The other could be that it likely has spared us, if only for a limited time, from the angry political rhetoric that has produced such a toxic atmosphere in our nation’s capital.<\/p>\n\n

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