{"id":32331,"date":"2021-03-05T09:26:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T15:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=32331"},"modified":"2021-03-05T09:26:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T15:26:55","slug":"the-clown-of-the-senate-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/03\/05\/the-clown-of-the-senate-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"The Clown Of The Senate, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader remarks on the GOP members of Congress in response to Senator Tuberville&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/03\/02\/the-clown-of-the-senate-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pursuit<\/a> of the title <em>The Clown of the Senate<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is no shortage of idiots in Congress. How so many graduated law school and passed the Bar is a mystery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed. And although the dis-esteemed Tuberville does not have academic achievements beyond being a football coach, Senator Sasse (R-NE) is a former University president. Senator Hawley (R-MO) is a former University professor. Senator Cassidy (R-LA) is an MD.<\/p>\n<p>It leaves me wondering: did these people benefit from &#8216;legacies&#8217;, did they buy their honors, or are the institutions actually in such bad shape that people like Hawley and Rep Gaetz (R-FL) (<strong>Florida State U Law School<\/strong>) can get through?<\/p>\n<p>Or is there a disconnect between academic achievement and provincialism? Does the former not erase the latter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader remarks on the GOP members of Congress in response to Senator Tuberville&#8217;s pursuit of the title The Clown of the Senate: There is no shortage of idiots in Congress. How so many graduated law school and passed the Bar is a mystery. Indeed. And although the dis-esteemed Tuberville \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/03\/05\/the-clown-of-the-senate-ctd\/\"> 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-32331","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\/32331","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=32331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32332,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32331\/revisions\/32332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}