{"id":45062,"date":"2020-11-09T21:59:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T21:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45062"},"modified":"2020-11-09T22:05:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T22:05:57","slug":"boorishness-lives-among-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45062","title":{"rendered":"Boorishness lives among GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Boorishness is alive and well — dammit, anyway! — among Republican political leaders.<\/p>\n

A Democrat has won an election for president. Do you think there would be any prominent Republican member of Congress who would deign to wish President-elect Joe Biden well as he begins to form a new government? Might there be a tide of good wishes coming from the “loyal opposition”?<\/p>\n

One would think. Except that we’re now exiting the Era of Trump, the Sore Loser in Chief whose own brand of boorishness apparently has been spread to others in Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n

OK, there are exceptions. Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska have extended their good wishes; so has Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah. George W. Bush, the only living former GOP president, did so, too.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump continues his futile attempt to sow discord among the GOP faithful by challenging the election results. He says he won’t concede. His pals in the Senate, led by Lindsey Graham, say a concession would doom the GOP to losses at the presidential election level forever. Good grief!<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has refused to say congrats; so has House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. A host of other GOP pols have endorsed Trump’s bogus assertions about widespread fraud and illegality.<\/p>\n

President-elect Biden is left, therefore, to proceed apace with his own task of forming a government and getting to work.<\/p>\n

We are witnessing yet another national disgrace courtesy of the clown who, thankfully, is about to exit the political stage.<\/p>\n

Good … riddance!<\/em><\/p>\n\n

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By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com Boorishness is alive and well — dammit, anyway! — among Republican political leaders. A Democrat has won an election for president. Do you think there would be any prominent Republican member of Congress who would deign to wish President-elect Joe Biden well as he begins to form a new government? … Continue reading Boorishness lives among GOP<\/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":[7225,1941,2505,6863],"class_list":["post-45062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2020-election","tag-gop","tag-joe-biden","tag-transition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45062","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=45062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45064,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45062\/revisions\/45064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}