{"id":49421,"date":"2021-10-09T01:14:08","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T01:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49421"},"modified":"2021-10-09T01:14:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T01:14:08","slug":"civility-is-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49421","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Civility is gone&#8217;?"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/manchin-and-schumer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49422\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/manchin-and-schumer-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/manchin-and-schumer-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/manchin-and-schumer-1024x625.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/manchin-and-schumer-768x468.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/manchin-and-schumer.jpg 1123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It took Joe Manchin a long time to state the obvious.<\/p>\n<p>The West Virginia Democratic U.S. senator declared that &#8220;Civility is gone&#8221; after Senate Democratic leader Charles Schumer criticized Senate Republicans over their obstruction of plans to increase the debt ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>Spoiler alert, Sen. Manchin: Civility has been MIA for a long time on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/civility-is-gone-manchin-slams-schumer-broadside-against-gop\/ar-AAPhIIM?li=BBnb7Kz\">&#8216;Civility is gone&#8217;: Manchin slams Schumer broadside against GOP (msn.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A single tirade by Schumer doesn&#8217;t signal anything new regarding the state of play between the governing parties.<\/p>\n<p>Manchin reportedly buried his face in his hands and then walked off the Senate floor on Thursday after Schumer unloaded on GOP caucus members.<\/p>\n<p>Look, I wish we could rediscover civil discourse as much as the next guy. Yes, even as much as Sen. Manchin. However, the major culprit in killing political civility &#8212; to my way of thinking &#8212; happens to be the Republicans who have sought to obstruct rather than govern.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/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>It took Joe Manchin a long time to state the obvious. The West Virginia Democratic U.S. senator declared that &#8220;Civility is gone&#8221; after Senate Democratic leader Charles Schumer criticized Senate Republicans over their obstruction of plans to increase the debt ceiling. Spoiler alert, Sen. Manchin: Civility has been MIA for a long time on Capitol &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=49421\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Civility is gone&#8217;?<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[985,6433,2514],"class_list":["post-49421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-chuck-schumer","tag-civility","tag-joe-manchin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49421","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=49421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49423,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49421\/revisions\/49423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}