{"id":38525,"date":"2023-03-27T15:42:58","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T20:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38525"},"modified":"2023-03-27T15:42:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T20:42:58","slug":"toxic-team-politics-to-the-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/03\/27\/toxic-team-politics-to-the-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Toxic Team Politics To The Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"

I see the extreme loyalty demanded of the GOP<\/em> representatives who’ve been melded to the former President’s shirt-tails by their own extremism and incompetence has led to the next logical step of toxic team politics:<\/p>\n

Top House Republicans said in a letter Saturday that they’re considering legislation to “protect” current and former presidents from “politically motivated prosecutions” in response to\u00a0Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s<\/a>\u00a0investigation into\u00a0former President Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why it matters:<\/strong>\u00a0The letter is the latest volley in their back-and-forth with Bragg, who has refused to comply with their\u00a0request for records related to his probe<\/a>. Republicans have attempted to paint Bragg’s actions \u2014 which could\u00a0result in a historic indictment<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0Trump<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 as an abuse of prosecutorial authority. [Axios<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Which is damn silly for anyone who cares about having a lawful society. But when the guy who delivered you a job with prestige calls in the favor, you have to answer.<\/p>\n

Don’t you? Depends on your chutzpah, not to mention the threats you’ve received, maybe, which is in itself an important consideration.<\/p>\n

This is a predictable attempt by the Republican House “leaders” to legitimize their exceptionally poor showing, so far, in the current session of Congress. Don’t look for them to moderate their stances, because they perceive their extremism as the reason they’re in Congress – rather than the toxic team politics upon which I’ve harped for so long.<\/p>\n

It’s up to the voters to kick them out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I see the extreme loyalty demanded of the GOP representatives who’ve been melded to the former President’s shirt-tails by their own extremism and incompetence has led to the next logical step of toxic team politics: Top House Republicans said in a letter Saturday that they’re considering legislation to “protect” current \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-38525","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\/38525","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=38525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38529,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38525\/revisions\/38529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}