{"id":23418,"date":"2017-07-30T12:39:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T12:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23418"},"modified":"2017-07-30T12:39:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T12:39:24","slug":"hold-on-rep-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23418","title":{"rendered":"Hold on, Rep. Waters!"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/maxinewaters_0711217getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23419\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/maxinewaters_0711217getty-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/maxinewaters_0711217getty-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/maxinewaters_0711217getty.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald John Trump Sr. isn&#8217;t the only American politician who needs to bind up his hands to keep him from abusing his Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters? I&#8217;m talking about you!<\/p>\n<p>The California Democrat is one of the president&#8217;s most vocal and consistent critics. She fired off a tweet that said Vice President Pence already is planning his inauguration in anticipation of Trump&#8217;s impeachment and conviction of assorted &#8220;high crimes and misdemeanors.&#8221; She said former White House press flack Sean Spicer and ex-chief of staff Reince Priebus will &#8220;lead the transition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read my lips here: I take a back seat to no one in my disdain for this president and the way he has conducted himself. But impeachment is not even close to occurring.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/344504-waters-pence-is-planning-his-inauguration\">Waters has been around <\/a>Capitol Hill for a long time. I am going to presume she does an adequate job representing her California congressional district, given that she&#8217;s been re-elected numerous times since her first election to Congress in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>She tends to make a <em>national<\/em> name for herself, though, by popping off during heated political debates. It&#8217;s getting pretty damn hot in Washington these days, as I believe we all can attest.<\/p>\n<p>Waters isn&#8217;t the first anti-Trumpkin to talk openly about impeachment. Fellow Democratic U.S. Rep. Al Green of Texas has filed articles of impeachment, but it isn&#8217;t going anywhere &#8212; at least not yet.<\/p>\n<p>But this business of using Twitter as a platform to make these kinds goofy political pronouncements is beginning to annoy many of us. You may count me as among the annoyed.<\/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>Donald John Trump Sr. isn&#8217;t the only American politician who needs to bind up his hands to keep him from abusing his Twitter account. U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters? I&#8217;m talking about you! The California Democrat is one of the president&#8217;s most vocal and consistent critics. She fired off a tweet that said Vice President Pence &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23418\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hold on, Rep. Waters!<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[849,1424,2253,7037,4932],"class_list":["post-23418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-capitol-hill","tag-donald-trump","tag-impeachment","tag-maxine-waters","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23418","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=23418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23420,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23418\/revisions\/23420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}