{"id":11686,"date":"2017-09-14T18:27:15","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T23:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=11686"},"modified":"2017-09-14T18:27:15","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T23:27:15","slug":"precision-is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/14\/precision-is-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Precision Is Important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen, in discussing the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_Arrivals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_Arrivals&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1505517864122000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFYeeLHXu52DsQ1XslygcWsBkm2UA\"><i><b>DACA <\/b><\/i><\/a>(Dreamers&#8217; protection) polka Trump&#8217;s engaged in with the Democrats over the last 24 hours, as a side note suggests:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"gmail_quote\"><p>The only certainty here is that Trump seems lost without a map.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think this is a bit misleading. Most professional politicians have a map, and they&#8217;d be lost without it, because the &#8220;map&#8221; is a plan of action, carefully worked out with specific goals, etc. So it&#8217;s not really surprising that Trump is lost without a map. The surprise is that he could prepare these maps and follow them and achieve his goals, reprehensible (or even incomprehensible) as they might be.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s his resistance to using maps that is confounding. Maybe he really believes his own rhetoric that he&#8217;s smart and doesn&#8217;t need them. But the evidence so far is he needs maps so badly they should be tattooed on the inside of his eyelids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen, in discussing the DACA (Dreamers&#8217; protection) polka Trump&#8217;s engaged in with the Democrats over the last 24 hours, as a side note suggests: The only certainty here is that Trump seems lost without a map. I think this is a bit misleading. Most professional politicians have a map, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/14\/precision-is-important\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11687,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686\/revisions\/11687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}