{"id":52480,"date":"2022-08-04T01:48:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T01:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52480"},"modified":"2022-08-04T01:48:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T01:48:28","slug":"cant-we-do-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52480","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t we do better?"},"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\/11\/211122-one-time-use-capitol-cs-152p.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49782\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/211122-one-time-use-capitol-cs-152p-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/211122-one-time-use-capitol-cs-152p-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/211122-one-time-use-capitol-cs-152p-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/211122-one-time-use-capitol-cs-152p-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/211122-one-time-use-capitol-cs-152p.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Surely you remember the time when we expected a lot more than usual from those we elect to represent our interests in, say, Congress.<\/p>\n<p>I certainly do remember.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we can scan the political horizon and find any number of nimrods, dipsh**s, fruitcakes and borderline psychos serving a the highest levels of government.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Republican Party supposedly is on the ascent, I feel compelled to single out just a few GOP officeholders to make my point.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida is being investigated for having sex with underage girls; Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia says the Constitution doesn&#8217;t really separate church and state; Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado has declared that this is a Christian nation; closer to home, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has been under felony indictment on securities fraud charges and is favored to win re-election to a third term as the state&#8217;s top law enforcement officer.<\/p>\n<p>I just have to mention, if only briefly, that we elected a president of the United States who admits to sexually assaulting women, who says he&#8217;s never sought forgiveness for mistakes he has made, who has admitted to cheating on all three women he has married, who once said he &#8220;could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and never lose any voters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Politics is supposed to be a noble profession. These days it is being practiced by run-of-the-mill nut jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Scary, man.<\/p>\n<p><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>Surely you remember the time when we expected a lot more than usual from those we elect to represent our interests in, say, Congress. I certainly do remember. Today, we can scan the political horizon and find any number of nimrods, dipsh**s, fruitcakes and borderline psychos serving a the highest levels of government. Since the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52480\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can&#8217;t we do better?<\/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":[13],"tags":[1112,1941,2652,8425,3655],"class_list":["post-52480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-congress","tag-gop","tag-ken-paxton","tag-matt-gaetz","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52480","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=52480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52481,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52480\/revisions\/52481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}