{"id":37843,"date":"2022-12-03T12:40:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T18:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=37843"},"modified":"2022-12-03T12:42:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T18:42:09","slug":"speaker-of-the-house-could-make-me-very-ill-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/12\/03\/speaker-of-the-house-could-make-me-very-ill-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Of The House Could Make Me Very Ill, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember my suspicion that some Republicans would like to see the <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/11\/29\/speaker-of-the-house-could-make-me-very-ill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former President as Speaker of the House<\/a>? I missed this, ummm, announcement from Rep Ralph Norman from Thursday:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rep. Ralph Norman, who opposes McCarthy for Speaker, says the renegade Republicans have a secret candidate to run against him who is not a House member: \u201cIt will be apparent in the coming weeks who that person will be. I will tell you, it will be interesting.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/anD60jvNky\">pic.twitter.com\/anD60jvNky<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ron Filipkowski \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 (@RonFilipkowski) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonFilipkowski\/status\/1598450042012327936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rep. Ralph Norman, who opposes McCarthy for Speaker, says the renegade Republicans have a secret candidate to run against him who is not a House member: \u201cIt will be apparent in the coming weeks who that person will be. I will tell you, it will be interesting.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Interesting? Only if it&#8217;s not Trump. Otherwise, drearily predictable and out of step with most of America, and he&#8217;d be terribly incompetent and unaware of it, unlike myself, who would be terribly incompetent and smart enough to not even consider accepting the position.<\/p>\n<p>Suppose he is nominated for the position. Would moderate Republicans and Democrats vote for him? No. So he&#8217;d be left humiliated. Or so I think.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, the persistent stupidity of these folks does induce nausea in me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember my suspicion that some Republicans would like to see the former President as Speaker of the House? I missed this, ummm, announcement from Rep Ralph Norman from Thursday: Rep. Ralph Norman, who opposes McCarthy for Speaker, says the renegade Republicans have a secret candidate to run against him who \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/12\/03\/speaker-of-the-house-could-make-me-very-ill-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-37843","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\/37843","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=37843"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37846,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37843\/revisions\/37846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}