{"id":430,"date":"2013-03-27T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/27\/the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving"},"modified":"2013-03-27T20:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T20:36:00","slug":"the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=430","title":{"rendered":"The gift that keeps on giving \u2026"},"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. Rep. Louie Gohmert keeps bringing on the hits.<\/p>\n<p>The East Texas Republican \u2013 who\u2019s made a name for himself by questioning President Obama\u2019s place of birth and by suggesting that citizens armed with semi-automatic weapons are the best defense against mass murderers \u2013 has now gotten into a spat with a U.S. National Park Service patrol officer over a parking violation.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, he reportedly pulled congressional rank by telling the officer he sits on the House committee that controls the Park Service\u2019s purse strings. <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/03\/louie-gohmert-cops-parking-ticket-89375.html?hp=t3_3\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/03\/louie-gohmert-cops-parking-ticket-89375.html?hp=t3_3\">http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/03\/louie-gohmert-cops-parking-ticket-89375.html?hp=t3_3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an odd way, I love having this guy in Congress. He\u2019s good for a laugh. The problem is that when he makes us laugh, he\u2019s also embarrassing many of his fellow Texans, such as yours truly.<\/p>\n<p>Gohmert questioned whether should have gotten the ticket in the first place. The park officer who cited him, though, said he acted like a bully and \u201cranted\u201d during the conversation with the officer over issuance of the parking citation.<\/p>\n<p>Good grief. The guy pulls down a six-figure annual salary. He should just pay the fine and keep his trap shut. And spare me the notion that it\u2019s \u201cthe principle of the thing.\u201d <\/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. Rep. Louie Gohmert keeps bringing on the hits. The East Texas Republican \u2013 who\u2019s made a name for himself by questioning President Obama\u2019s place of birth and by suggesting that citizens armed with semi-automatic weapons are the best defense against mass murderers \u2013 has now gotten into a spat with a U.S. National Park &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=430\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The gift that keeps on giving \u2026<\/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-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","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=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}