{"id":18464,"date":"2018-11-28T08:09:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T14:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=18464"},"modified":"2018-11-28T08:09:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T14:09:05","slug":"word-of-the-day-431","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/11\/28\/word-of-the-day-431\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Untrammeled<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not deprived of freedom of action or expression; not restricted or hampered.<br \/>\n<em>\u2018a mind untrammeled by convention\u2019 [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.oxforddictionaries.com\/definition\/us\/untrammeled\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Oxford Dictionaries<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2018\/11\/trumps-threatens-g-m-closing-ohio-plant-gangster-government.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Trump Threatening GM Over Its Plant Closure Is the Real \u2018Gangster Government\u2019<\/em><\/a>,&#8221;\u00a0Jonathan Chait, <em><strong>New York Intelligencer<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Obama administration considered its dilemma carefully. The administration had strong reservations about wading into the economy on a firm-by-firm or sector-by-sector basis. Obama ultimately decided the economic and social repercussions of the auto industry failing was too great a calamity to bear, and extended loans to Detroit. (They have since been repaid.) As part of the deal, the administration forced both unions to accept wage reductions and creditors to take some losses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"nymag.com\/intelligencer\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cjoyu2x9b00123h5z73gqdwy3@published\" data-word-count=\"128\">It is almost impossible to convey the tenor of the freak-out this generated on the political right. Conservatives, already whipped into a lather by the fiscal stimulus and Obama\u2019s plans to reform health care and create a cap-and-trade system, treated the auto bailout as the literal death knell for capitalism. Michael Barone quickly coined the phrase \u201cgangster government\u201d to capture the conservative belief that the Obama administration was threatening the private sector with the <strong>untrammeled<\/strong> power of government. Denunciations of \u201cgangster government echoed from editorials (the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/gangster-government-gave-chrysler-to-the-uaw\">Washington\u00a0<em>Examiner<\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u201cthe way Obama strong-armed creditors who rightfully expected to be treated justly under the law was right out of Juan Peron\u2019s playbook\u201d) to tea-party\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/tea-party-protesters-rally-against-gangster-government\/\">rallies<\/a>\u00a0to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gangster-Government-Barack-Washington-Thugocracy\/dp\/1596986484?ascsubtag=[]in[p]cjoyu2sbm001cnty61jqzmtm2[i]DAKWYr[z]m[d]T\" data-track-type=\"product-link\" data-track-id=\"DAKWYr\" data-vivaldi-spatnav-clickable=\"1\" data-amzn-asin=\"1596986484\">book<\/a>\u00a0by David Fredosso (<em>Gangster Government: Barack Obama and the New Washington Thugocracy<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Untrammeled: Not deprived of freedom of action or expression; not restricted or hampered. \u2018a mind untrammeled by convention\u2019 [Oxford Dictionaries] Noted in &#8220;Trump Threatening GM Over Its Plant Closure Is the Real \u2018Gangster Government\u2019,&#8221;\u00a0Jonathan Chait, New York Intelligencer: The Obama administration considered its dilemma carefully. The administration had strong reservations \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/11\/28\/word-of-the-day-431\/\"> 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-18464","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\/18464","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=18464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18474,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18464\/revisions\/18474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}