{"id":8089,"date":"2015-02-04T14:28:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T14:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8089"},"modified":"2021-01-30T21:26:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T21:26:54","slug":"who-are-you-calling-crazy-rep-hastings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8089","title":{"rendered":"Who are you calling ‘crazy,’ Rep. Hastings?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It’s one thing to be called “crazy” by someone whose very presence commands respect and dignity.<\/p>\n

It’s quite another to be labeled as such by someone who, shall we say, has a bit of a checkered past himself.<\/p>\n

All that said, it’s bizarre to the max to see such an eruption of anger at a congressional rules panel hearing between Republican and Democratic members of Congress, the people’s representatives in the government of the world’s most powerful nation.<\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., called Texas a “crazy” state and said he wouldn’t live here “for all the tea in China.”<\/p>\n

http:\/\/blog.mysanantonio.com\/texas-politics\/2015\/02\/crazy-texas-republicans-to-alcee-hastings-dont-mess-with-texas\/<\/p>\n

Hastings made the crack during a House Rules Committee hearing on the Affordable Care Act and whether Texas would participate in its implementation.<\/p>\n

His remark drew a sharp rebuke from Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, who said Hastings had “defamed” the great state of Texas. I wouldn’t go quite that far, but the remark seemed a bit of a diversion from the issue at hand.<\/p>\n

I won’t get into defending the state where my family and I have lived for the past 31 years — except to say this: Yes, the politics here aren’t quite to my liking, but the state is chock full of\u00a0decent, hard-working, caring, compassionate folks who don’t nearly fit the stereotype that many Americans attach to Texans.<\/p>\n

The sunrises and sunsets ain’t bad, either.<\/p>\n

As for Hastings, I just wish he<\/em> wouldn’t have brought up that crazy talk.<\/p>\n

This individual once sat on the federal bench. President Carter appointed him to be a U.S. District Court judge — and then he got himself impeached<\/em> on perjury and bribery charges by a Democratically controlled House of Representatives. The vote was 413-3. How did he fare in a Senate trial? Senators convicted him and he got tossed out of office.<\/p>\n

Never fear. Congress welcomed him in 1993 when he won election.<\/p>\n

So, let’s stop throwing “crazy” talk around out there, Rep. Hastings. Shall we?<\/p>\n

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It’s one thing to be called “crazy” by someone whose very presence commands respect and dignity. It’s quite another to be labeled as such by someone who, shall we say, has a bit of a checkered past himself. All that said, it’s bizarre to the max to see such an eruption of anger at a … Continue reading Who are you calling ‘crazy,’ Rep. Hastings?<\/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":[13,18,1],"tags":[164,242,849,2188,2491,2601,3020,3376,4575,4964,4980],"class_list":["post-8089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-state-news","category-uncategorized","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-alcee-hastings","tag-capitol-hill","tag-house-rules-committee","tag-jimmy-carter","tag-judicial-impeachment","tag-michael-burgess","tag-obamacare","tag-texas","tag-u-s-house-of-representatives","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089","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=8089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46303,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089\/revisions\/46303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}