{"id":34637,"date":"2019-01-04T17:27:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T17:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34637"},"modified":"2019-01-04T17:27:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T17:27:38","slug":"thats-not-how-you-make-a-name-for-yourself-young-lady","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=34637","title":{"rendered":"That’s not how you make a name for yourself, young lady"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib wasted no time in calling serious attention to herself as she took office in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

She said it’s time to “impeach the motherfu***er,” meaning the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump Sr.<\/p>\n

Tlaib isn’t apologizing. She isn’t backing down. Indeed, she seems to be doubling, maybe tripling<\/em>, down on that ridiculous profanity she shouted to a crowd of supporters.<\/p>\n

She issued a Twitter statement declaring her intention to “speak truth to power.”<\/p>\n

Good . . . grief! You can do all of that without<\/em> resorting to the language the rookie Michigan Democratic congresswoman used.<\/p>\n

I get that this kind of language is nothing new. Vice President Dick Cheney famously told Sen. Patrick Leahy to “go f*** yourself” on the floor of the Senate. Presidents Johnson and Nixon were known to pepper their language with what my dad used to call “the functional<\/em> four-letter word.” I’m still reading Bob Woodward’s book “Fear,” and it contains quotes from Trump and his chief aides that are littered with more f-bombs than one can imagine.<\/p>\n

Hey, I’m not a prude about this kind of thing. I have been known to utter a profanity on occasion myself.<\/p>\n

However, a freshman member of Congress speaking like that on her very first day<\/em> in office goes a bit beyond what I consider to be acceptable, particularly when she’s referring to what might occur down the road with regard to impeaching the nation’s head of state.<\/p>\n

I am left to offer you this statement from a reader of High Plains Blogger, who wrote to me:\u00a0We\u2019re quickly approaching a Taiwan-style Congress with fistfights on the House floor. Good! Maybe they\u2019ll regain some civility if they know they\u2019ll get a couple teeth knocked out.<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib wasted no time in calling serious attention to herself as she took office in the House of Representatives. She said it’s time to “impeach the motherfu***er,” meaning the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump Sr. Tlaib isn’t apologizing. She isn’t backing down. Indeed, she seems to be doubling, maybe … Continue reading That’s not how you make a name for yourself, young lady<\/span> →<\/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":[1112,1424,8268,7793,5045],"class_list":["post-34637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-rashida-tlaib","tag-trump-impeachment","tag-us-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34637","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=34637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34638,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34637\/revisions\/34638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}