{"id":15376,"date":"2018-04-19T18:51:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T23:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=15376"},"modified":"2018-04-19T18:52:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T23:52:07","slug":"15376","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/04\/19\/15376\/","title":{"rendered":"Kicking The Boss In The Teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"

On\u00a0The Fix<\/b><\/i>, Aaron Blake\u00a0talks\u00a0<\/a>about U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and her argument with her boss:<\/p>\n

Nikki Haley might as well have called the White House a bunch of liars.<\/p>\n

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations\u00a0on Tuesday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0rebuffed White House aides\u2019\u00a0claims that she bungled\u00a0an announcement of new sanctions against Russia<\/a>. After Haley said\u00a0Sunday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0that the sanctions were on the way by\u00a0Monday<\/span><\/span>, the White House\u00a0appeared to change course<\/a>\u00a0and said a decision had not been made. But rather than an admission that President Trump had had a change of heart, word ventured out that Haley had gotten out over her skis. …<\/p>\n

Not so, says Haley. And in fact, she said that even the more charitable explanation is wrong.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith all due respect, I don\u2019t get confused<\/a>,\u201d Haley said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When I read that a couple of days ago, I wondered if Haley was on her way out. After all, Governor Haley was initially hired so her Lieutenant Governor, Henry McMaster, would be rewarded<\/a> with the South Carolina governorship. Reports at the time suggested Haley didn’t much care for Trump. But she’s proven to be one of Trump’s best hires, a straight-ahead diplomat in the United Nations who represents traditional American interests – which is more than can be said for Trump.<\/p>\n

I think, with this little tempest, that she’s showing backbone that will be appreciated in the future. She may, in fact, have higher ambitions, and this incident will play in her favor. The question may become whether there’s a party she can call home the next time an election rolls around – or if she’ll be part of the moderate Republican segment who chooses to breakaway from the\u00a0GOP\u00a0<\/b><\/i>and form their own party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On\u00a0The Fix, Aaron Blake\u00a0talks\u00a0about U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and her argument with her boss: Nikki Haley might as well have called the White House a bunch of liars. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations\u00a0on Tuesday\u00a0rebuffed White House aides\u2019\u00a0claims that she bungled\u00a0an announcement of new sanctions against Russia. After Haley \u2026 Continue reading → <\/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-15376","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\/15376","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=15376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15378,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15376\/revisions\/15378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}