{"id":25255,"date":"2017-10-06T03:09:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T03:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25255"},"modified":"2017-10-06T03:09:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T03:09:19","slug":"rep-murphy-quits-congress-see-ya-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25255","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Murphy quits Congress &#8230; see ya later"},"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\/10\/murphy.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25228\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/murphy-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/murphy-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/murphy.png 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tim Murphy is about to become a former member of Congress from western Pennsylvania. He had toiled in relative obscurity until he decided to make a politically fatal mistake.<\/p>\n<p>This Republican lawmaker got involved intimately with a young woman, who became pregnant as a result of their extramarital affair.<\/p>\n<p>Now, what grows legs under this story is that Murphy &#8212; whose main claim to fame as a member of Congress is that he has been fervently anti-abortion &#8212; asked his paramour to <em>obtain an abortion.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As the saying goes: <em>Oops!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Murphy had intended initially to retire at the end of his current term. He has decided to quit the House and will depart Capitol Hill in about a month.<\/p>\n<p>Good. I recognize that Congress is full of hypocrites. There will be more hypocrites coming along even as some of the current congressional hypocrites depart the scene.<\/p>\n<p>When one of those hypocrites sacrifices his moral authority in such a callous matter, it&#8217;s good to show him the door and urge him to avoid letting that door hit him in the &#8230; you know.<\/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>Tim Murphy is about to become a former member of Congress from western Pennsylvania. He had toiled in relative obscurity until he decided to make a politically fatal mistake. This Republican lawmaker got involved intimately with a young woman, who became pregnant as a result of their extramarital affair. Now, what grows legs under this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25255\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rep. Murphy quits Congress &#8230; see ya later<\/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],"tags":[122,849,1112,1685,2183,7352],"class_list":["post-25255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-abortion","tag-capitol-hill","tag-congress","tag-family-values","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-tim-murphy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25255","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=25255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25257,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25255\/revisions\/25257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}