{"id":34022,"date":"2021-08-17T10:40:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T15:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=34022"},"modified":"2021-08-17T10:40:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T15:40:31","slug":"frantic-to-push-your-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/08\/17\/frantic-to-push-your-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"Frantic To Push Your Narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) has &#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Decided to seek vengeance on the Democrats for suggesting former President Trump was, and remains, a flying nutcase;<\/li>\n<li>Received orders from on high &#8211; perhaps from flying nutcase former President Trump &#8211; to push this attack;<\/li>\n<li>Decided to cover up for Governor DeSantis&#8217; (R-FL) incompetency (this one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/08\/17\/politics\/rick-scott-joe-biden-25th-amendment\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">courtesy<\/a> Chris Cillizza of <strong><em>CNN\/Politics<\/em><\/strong>);<\/li>\n<li>Engage in a weird relative of <em>moral equivalence<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li>Decided it&#8217;s time to launch <strong>Rick Scott for President<\/strong> in 2024;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>What&#8217;s making me laugh and wonder why I didn&#8217;t predict this all along?<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After the disastrous events in Afghanistan, we must confront a serious question: Is Joe Biden capable of discharging the duties of his office or has time come to exercise the provisions of the 25th Amendment? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l1bFrUdZH9\">https:\/\/t.co\/l1bFrUdZH9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenRickScott\/status\/1427294742824591363?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Given what little I&#8217;ve seen out of Senator Scott over the years, he&#8217;s not capable of confronting serious questions, just political questions of power.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, here&#8217;s my take on the contents of his, errr, concerns:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No, inflation is <strong>not<\/strong> raging. Show me an annual rate of 20% and I&#8217;ll express some concern.<\/li>\n<li>The debt ceiling is a <em>Congressional<\/em> responsibility, not a <em>Presidential<\/em> responsibility. Perhaps you should see if you can possibly address the issue without looking like a great hypocritical goof, Senator. Maybe you should agree to raise taxes, Senator. Maybe you should raise funding of the <em><strong>IRS<\/strong><\/em> so we can catch the cheats. You know. <em>Do your job<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>The entire border crossings thing, whatever the details may be &#8211; I have not followed it closely &#8211; does not necessarily condemn the Biden Administration. It may signal that problems in Central America have worsened and need to be addressed, an issue I&#8217;ve ranted on before.<\/li>\n<li>And, yes, Afghanistan has gone from the forgotten war to front page news. We&#8217;ll need our experts &#8211; and, no, Senator Scott, you are not one of them, and I&#8217;m not particularly interested in your blathering &#8211; to investigate whether this collapse was predicted or not, and what went wrong over the four administrations responsible for this debacle. I suspect a shit-storm of blame will hit all four President in about 50 years, when today&#8217;s political polarization is no more than a chapter on madness in history books, and a fair assessment can take place. My suspicion: &#8220;nation-building&#8221; is simply hubris, and former President Bush (R) will bear most of the responsibility.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meanwhile, the economy has come roaring back, foreign relations, with the notable possible exception of Afghanistan, is recovering from the debacle of the Trump Administration as shown in overseas polls and a general lack of drama, and we&#8217;re moving forward again with an adult in the Oval Office, rather than the boastful, vain child to whose ass you shoved your nose.<\/p>\n<p>What a hollow grandstander this Senator has turned out to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) has &#8230; Decided to seek vengeance on the Democrats for suggesting former President Trump was, and remains, a flying nutcase; Received orders from on high &#8211; perhaps from flying nutcase former President Trump &#8211; to push this attack; Decided to cover up for Governor DeSantis&#8217; (R-FL) \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/08\/17\/frantic-to-push-your-narrative\/\"> 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-34022","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\/34022","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=34022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34023,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34022\/revisions\/34023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}