{"id":706,"date":"2013-01-04T00:38:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-04T00:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/04\/get-a-grip-louie"},"modified":"2013-01-04T00:38:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T00:38:00","slug":"get-a-grip-louie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=706","title":{"rendered":"Get a grip, Louie"},"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 title=\"http:\/\/firstread.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/01\/03\/16327125-boehner-re-elected-as-speaker-of-the-house-after-some-gop-dissent?lite&amp;ocid=msnhp&amp;pos=1\" href=\"http:\/\/firstread.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/01\/03\/16327125-boehner-re-elected-as-speaker-of-the-house-after-some-gop-dissent?lite&amp;ocid=msnhp&amp;pos=1\">http:\/\/firstread.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/01\/03\/16327125-boehner-re-elected-as-speaker-of-the-house-after-some-gop-dissent?lite&amp;ocid=msnhp&amp;pos=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Boehner has been re-elected speaker of the House of Representatives, but only over the objections of a few arch-conservatives within the Republican House caucus.<\/p>\n<p>I must admit that the most ludicrous objection of all came from right here in Texas, from Rep. Louie Gohmert, who voted for someone who\u2019s no longer even serving in the House.<\/p>\n<p>Gohmert, an admitted conspiracist from East Texas who continues to doubt President Obama\u2019s constitutional qualifications to serve in the office to which he\u2019s been re-elected \u2013 he wonders if the president was born in Kenya and not Hawaii, as POTUS has declared \u2013 voted for former Rep. Allen West, a Florida Republican, who lost his own re-election bid in November.<\/p>\n<p>Seems that Gohmert likes West\u2019s brand of nutcase conservatism. West, who served a single term in the House, once accused dozens of House Democrats of being closet communists; he labeled Florida congressional colleague Debbie Wasserman-Schulz, a Democrat of course, a \u201cdespicable human being\u201d; and most recently joined the right-wing chorus accusing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of faking her concussion to get out of testifying on the Sept. 11 Benghazi, Libya attack that killed four Americans, including the U.S.ambassador to Libya.<\/p>\n<p>West, thankfully, is gone. Gohmert, though, remains and no doubt will continue to embarrass many of the rest of his fellow Texans with his loony rants.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh \u2026<\/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>http:\/\/firstread.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/01\/03\/16327125-boehner-re-elected-as-speaker-of-the-house-after-some-gop-dissent?lite&amp;ocid=msnhp&amp;pos=1 John Boehner has been re-elected speaker of the House of Representatives, but only over the objections of a few arch-conservatives within the Republican House caucus. I must admit that the most ludicrous objection of all came from right here in Texas, from Rep. Louie Gohmert, who voted for someone who\u2019s no longer even serving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=706\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Get a grip, Louie<\/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-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","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=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}