{"id":254,"date":"2013-05-07T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/07\/speaker-endorsement-not-worth-having"},"modified":"2013-05-07T20:18:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T20:18:00","slug":"speaker-endorsement-not-worth-having","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"Speaker \u2018endorsement\u2019 not worth having"},"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>U.S. House Speaker John Boehner said he would welcome Mark Sanford \u201cwith open arms\u201d into his party\u2019s House ranks.<\/p>\n<p>Then he said members of Congress don\u2019t get to choose those with whom they serve.<\/p>\n<p>Where I come from, that\u2019s what I call \u201cdamning with faint praise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/298183-boehner-on-sanford-house-members-dont-get-to-choose-their-colleagues\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/298183-boehner-on-sanford-house-members-dont-get-to-choose-their-colleagues\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/298183-boehner-on-sanford-house-members-dont-get-to-choose-their-colleagues<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sanford is the former South Carolina governor who once served in the House. He\u2019s running for the First Congressional District seat against Democratic challenger Elizabeth Colbert Busch. The race is neck and neck, or so they say.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s close because the First District is as reliably Republican as, say, the 13th District of Texas. Colbert Busch has a chance of winning the seat against Sanford, who you\u2019ll recall left the governorship after his much-publicized dalliance with his Argentine girlfriend. He lied about where he was, saying he was hiking in the woods when he was in Argentina doing whatever.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s oh, so seedy. <\/p>\n<p>But here he is, trying to climb back into the arena. <\/p>\n<p>First District South Carolinians are voting today whether to send this clown back to public office or entrust their interests to a newcomer. My proverbial money is on the new kid, who I hope sends Sanford backpacking. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe this time he\u2019ll really hike the Appalachian Trail.<\/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>U.S. House Speaker John Boehner said he would welcome Mark Sanford \u201cwith open arms\u201d into his party\u2019s House ranks. Then he said members of Congress don\u2019t get to choose those with whom they serve. Where I come from, that\u2019s what I call \u201cdamning with faint praise.\u201d http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/298183-boehner-on-sanford-house-members-dont-get-to-choose-their-colleagues Sanford is the former South Carolina governor who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=254\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaker \u2018endorsement\u2019 not worth having<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","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=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}