{"id":35648,"date":"2022-04-06T17:52:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T22:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=35648"},"modified":"2022-04-06T17:52:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T22:52:32","slug":"pick-a-good-metric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/04\/06\/pick-a-good-metric\/","title":{"rendered":"Pick A Good Metric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen notes that the ranks of the brave Republicans, which I state with only a little sarcasm, who voted to impeach President Trump continues to thin from retirement, and he has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/maddowblog\/members-house-gops-impeachment-10-common-rcna23188\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thought on the matter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is quite possible that of the House Republicans\u2019 Impeachment 10, none of these members will be on Capitol Hill in the new year. Watch this space.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, yes. BUT &#8211; how many of these seats will be lost to Democrats or even moderate Republicans, rather than MAGA Republicans? That&#8217;s the real metric, isn&#8217;t it, Trump&#8217;s capacity to wreck the electoral map, not for Democrats, but for Republicans &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/02\/21\/hard-facts-rather-than-flaccid-ideology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">even as badly flawed as the Democrats have gotten for this year&#8217;s election<\/a>, and if that upsets my gentle reader, please review the Virginia results of last year, and whether or not the Democrats are rushing to correct their errors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen notes that the ranks of the brave Republicans, which I state with only a little sarcasm, who voted to impeach President Trump continues to thin from retirement, and he has a thought on the matter: It is quite possible that of the House Republicans\u2019 Impeachment 10, none of \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/04\/06\/pick-a-good-metric\/\"> 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-35648","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\/35648","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=35648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35649,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35648\/revisions\/35649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}