{"id":12001,"date":"2009-06-26T05:46:36","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T10:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=12001"},"modified":"2009-06-26T05:46:36","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T10:46:36","slug":"obey-vs-waters-war-on-the-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12001","title":{"rendered":"Obey vs. Waters; War on the Floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to find any interesting news to day is a real challenge, but I did come across this story from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/glennthrush\/0609\/ObeyWaters_shouting_match_on_floor.html\">Politico<\/a> that Maxine Waters shoved David Obey on the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday over Maxine Water&#8217;s  &#8220;Monument to Me&#8221; earmark;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wisc.) and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) engaged in a late afternoon shouting match on the House floor after Obey reportedly rebuffed Waters on a $1 million earmark request, aides and witnesses said.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses, speaking on condition of anonymity, said it appeared that Waters pushed or shoved Obey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Having encountered Waters personally, I can believe the reports that she&#8217;s so intellectually shallow that she&#8217;d resort to violence and then hide behind her age and gender. <\/p>\n<p>This is how <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/obey-waters-in-noisy-floor-fight-2009-06-25.html\">The Hill<\/a> remembers it;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou\u2019re out of line,\u201d Waters shot while walking down toward the well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re out of line,\u201d Obey shot back before turning and walking away.<\/p>\n<p>But then Obey stopped, turned back toward Waters, and shouted: \u201cI\u2019m not going to approve that earmark!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Obey turned away, but Waters went to go huddle with members of the Congressional Black Caucus. She could be over heard telling them: \u201cHe touched me first.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;d pay a lot of money to watch Waters get pounded. By anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to find any interesting news to day is a real challenge, but I did come &hellip; <a title=\"Obey vs. Waters; War on the Floor\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12001\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Obey vs. Waters; War on the Floor<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberals-suck","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}