{"id":31020,"date":"2020-10-27T13:17:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T18:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=31020"},"modified":"2020-10-27T13:17:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T18:17:07","slug":"i-have-a-better-retort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/10\/27\/i-have-a-better-retort\/","title":{"rendered":"I Have A Better Retort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/capitol-hill-because-we-can-standard-emerges-n1244902\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rant<\/a> about the Republicans&#8217; hypocrisy with regards to SCOTUS appointments and ends with this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And when GOP senators howl about Democratic indifference toward norms, traditions, and values, and demand to know why the new majority is governing in such a maximalist way, it will fall to Democratic officials to say, &#8220;Because we can.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But, really, it should have been this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And when GOP senators howl about Democratic indifference toward norms, traditions, and values, and demand to know why the new majority is governing in such a maximalist way, it will fall to Democratic officials to say, &#8220;<strong>Because you told us to<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Benen&#8217;s version shuts down the conversation. Mine continues it, and that works against the Republicans because they can&#8217;t run their mouths without stumbling over hypocrisy and lies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen has a rant about the Republicans&#8217; hypocrisy with regards to SCOTUS appointments and ends with this: And when GOP senators howl about Democratic indifference toward norms, traditions, and values, and demand to know why the new majority is governing in such a maximalist way, it will fall to \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/10\/27\/i-have-a-better-retort\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-31020","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\/31020","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=31020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31021,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31020\/revisions\/31021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}