{"id":47328,"date":"2021-03-31T20:26:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T20:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47328"},"modified":"2021-03-31T20:26:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T20:26:07","slug":"rep-dr-jackson-tweets-his-thoughts-who-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=47328","title":{"rendered":"Rep.\/Dr. Jackson tweets his thoughts … who knew?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By JOHN KANELIS<\/strong> \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

My friends and former neighbors in the Texas Panhandle are getting a totally expected treat from their new congressman: a Twitter storm of statements, proclamations and, dare I say it, demagogic<\/em> grenades.<\/p>\n

Check out a tweet that came from Rep. Ronny Jackson, the newly elected congressman from the 13th Congressional District:<\/p>\n

We must say NO to any mandated \u201cvaccine passport.\u201d This isn\u2019t about \u201cstopping the spread,\u201d it\u2019s about CONTROL and restricting our RIGHTS. Vaccine passports = TYRANNY!<\/em><\/p>\n

You know, I just love the all-caps approach to driving home a point to the faithful. Actually … I don’t. Why not? It’s so, um, Trumpian!<\/em><\/p>\n

I am thinking at this moment of Mac Thornberry, the actual lifetime resident of the congressional district whom Jackson succeeded when he got elected in 2020. My thought is that Twitter tirades are so not like Thornberry. He was not inclined to fire off Twitter bombs. Thornberry would do that Washington thing, you know … dictate a policy statement and then issue it through his press office. The Thornberry method was more professional and for me more likely to be taken seriously than a wild-eyed, mouth-frothing tweet!<\/p>\n

It’s not that Rep. Jackson is a stupid man. He is, after all, a medical doctor who once served as physician to three presidents: George W. Bush, Barack H. Obama and Donald J. Trump and along the way rose to the rank of rear admiral in the Navy.<\/p>\n

Now he’s a politician and has taken so very readily to the medium of choice for many blowhards on the left and the right.<\/p>\n

I hope my former Texas Panhandle neighbors have a stronger stomach for the upcoming barrage of Twitter messages than I believe I would have were I still living there.<\/p>\n\n

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