{"id":22574,"date":"2017-06-23T20:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T20:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22574"},"modified":"2017-06-23T20:00:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T20:00:11","slug":"this-reaction-to-shooting-is-purely-disgraceful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22574","title":{"rendered":"This reaction to shooting is purely disgraceful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Just how poisonous is the political atmosphere in this country, just how toxic has it become? It has become so hideous that I am not entirely surprised to read a story that just came across my desk.<\/p>\n<p>A Democrat from Nebraska has been booted from his party post for saying he is &#8220;glad&#8221; that Republican U.S. House of Representatives whip Steve Scalise was shot and wishes he were &#8220;dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hit the road, Phil Montag, who was recorded saying this about Scalise:\u00a0\u201cHis whole job is to get people, convince Republicans to [expletive] kick people off [expletive] health care. I\u2019m glad he got shot,\u201d Montag said in the audio recording. \u201cI wish he was [expletive] dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Good grief, dude!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Montag said his comments were &#8220;taken out of context.&#8221; Really, fella?<\/p>\n<p>Scalise, of course, was wounded the other day when a gunman opened fire on Republican congressmen who were practicing in Alexandria, Va., for a charity baseball game against congressional Democrats. He damn near <em>died<\/em> from his wounds, but happily is now expected to make a full recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Montag reportedly told the Omaha World-Herald: &#8220;I did not call for the congressman&#8217;s death.&#8221;\u00a0Umm, yeah, you did, buster. The recording has you saying it in plain English.<\/p>\n<p>This is a disgraceful example of the very kind of thing that has infected the political atmosphere. This guy makes me sick.<\/p>\n<p>Read the story\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/caught-on-tape-dem-official-says-hes-glad-scalise-got-shot\/ar-BBD5kFE?li=BBmkt5R&amp;ocid=spartandhp\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just how poisonous is the political atmosphere in this country, just how toxic has it become? It has become so hideous that I am not entirely surprised to read a story that just came across my desk. A Democrat from Nebraska has been booted from his party post for saying he is &#8220;glad&#8221; that Republican &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22574\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This reaction to shooting is purely disgraceful<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[7144,4424],"class_list":["post-22574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-dc-shooting","tag-steve-scalise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22575,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22574\/revisions\/22575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}