{"id":25050,"date":"2019-06-07T18:36:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T23:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=25050"},"modified":"2019-06-07T18:36:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T23:36:08","slug":"lapdog-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/06\/07\/lapdog-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Lapdog Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI\u2019m not going to vote on a disapproval of the president\u2019s actions. That\u2019s a longtime policy of mine,\u201d Rep. Kenny Marchant (R-Tex.), even as he expressed some reticence over Trump\u2019s tariff threat. \u201cI never voted against the governor when I was in the statehouse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marchant added: \u201cIt would have to be very egregious, and I don\u2019t find this to be that egregious.\u201d [WaPo<\/strong><\/em><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Currently with a TrumpScore<\/em><\/a> of 95, he certainly is a very nice little lapdog indeed. It’s worth noting Rep. Marchant represents a Texas district, and with Trump’s threat of putting tariffs on all Mexican goods, and the damage that would do to Texas given its dependence on Mexican trade, he could really bad if he doesn’t vote for stopping those tariffs.<\/p>\n

All that said, I do not expect the tariffs to be applied. I expect Trump to soon claim the Mexicans have promised to do thus and so, and that there’s no need for tariffs. Thus he’ll look like he’s done something for his base, but not damaged the Texas economy. He’ll try to spin it as a big win, because that’s how he functions – on supposed big wins.<\/p>\n

It’s all a game he plays, and hopes he can continue to sucker all the other players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI\u2019m not going to vote on a disapproval of the president\u2019s actions. That\u2019s a longtime policy of mine,\u201d Rep. Kenny Marchant (R-Tex.), even as he expressed some reticence over Trump\u2019s tariff threat. \u201cI never voted against the governor when I was in the statehouse.\u201d Marchant added: \u201cIt would have to \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-25050","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\/25050","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=25050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25051,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25050\/revisions\/25051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}