{"id":32493,"date":"2021-03-25T20:00:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T01:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=32493"},"modified":"2021-03-25T20:00:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T01:00:49","slug":"the-big-bet-ctd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/03\/25\/the-big-bet-ctd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Big Bet, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

In reference to the concerns of Andrew Sullivan regarding the ARP<\/strong><\/a>, a reader writes:<\/p>\n

Where were these whiners when the GQP sucked the same trillions out of the economy by giving massive tax breaks to the rich, over and over? I lost all my respect of Sullivan long time ago. His 15 minutes are so over.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I must point out that, in the years of reading Sullivan, he’s never expressed any sympathy or kinship with the GOP<\/strong><\/em> – not of today, not of the GOP<\/strong><\/em> who took us into two wars twenty years ago. None. He has expressed dislike both intellectually and viscerally.<\/p>\n

Did he support those wars? Yes – right up until the CIA<\/strong> torture sessions came up. Then he<\/p>\n

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  1. Changed his opinion;<\/li>\n
  2. Expressed his shame, as he felt he shared responsibility for those shameful torture sessions;<\/li>\n
  3. Apologized;<\/li>\n
  4. Changed his advocacy;<\/li>\n
  5. And, most extraordinarily, self-analyzed<\/em> in an effort to discover how he had come to a wrong decision in the first place.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    That is not something you see often, if at all, in conservative or<\/strong> liberal circles.<\/p>\n

    In so far as financial matters go, he’s been less interested in those details, at least in what I’ve read. Sullivan is an independent, philosophical conservative who has embraced the ACA<\/strong><\/em>, who led the fight for gay marriage, and has been more interested in the philosophy and sociology of political matters on both the left and the right, than budgetary.<\/p>\n

    Will he be wrong on some matters and right on others? Sure. That’s the nature of the game. But I think I can count on him being honest about being wrong, I can count on him ignoring the rules of being liberal or conservative, much to the frustration of the woke<\/em> and the far-right, and he has the added benefit of being a good writer.<\/p>\n

    I sorely wish he wasn’t migrating towards podcasting. Podcasts are far too ephemeral, and I hate digging through accents, since most accents elude me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In reference to the concerns of Andrew Sullivan regarding the ARP, a reader writes: Where were these whiners when the GQP sucked the same trillions out of the economy by giving massive tax breaks to the rich, over and over? I lost all my respect of Sullivan long time ago. \u2026 Continue reading → <\/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-32493","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\/32493","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=32493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32494,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32493\/revisions\/32494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}