{"id":39216,"date":"2023-09-07T03:14:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T08:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=39216"},"modified":"2023-09-07T03:14:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T08:14:16","slug":"thats-not-encouraging-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/09\/07\/thats-not-encouraging-ctd\/","title":{"rendered":"That\u2019s Not Encouraging, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the impeachment trial of <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/07\/25\/thats-not-encouraging\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">suspended<\/a> Texas AG Ken Paxton (R-TX) under way in the Texas Senate, Professor Richardson <a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/september-5-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/september-5-2023&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1694103711321000&amp;usg=AOvVaw05ROJodWauwycgEqGjIXs4\">summarizes\u00a0<\/a>the sad contretemps of the Texas\u00a0<b><i>GOP<\/i><\/b>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"gmail_quote\"><p>The Republican Party in Texas is split over [suspended Texas Attorney General due to impeachment Ken] Paxton much as the country is split over former president Donald Trump. Some say that Paxton\u2019s extraordinary behavior warrants impeachment and trial and that, after all, a majority of Republicans in the Texas House were so concerned they impeached him.<\/p>\n<p>But others insist that he is, as he claims, a victim of political persecution. They maintain that a flawed man can do God\u2019s will, and they support Paxton no matter what his failings out of support for his political crusades on their behalf. J. David Goodman reported yesterday in the\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0that right-wing donors have embarked on an expensive, high-pressure campaign to convince Republicans in the Texas Senate to vote against conviction, threatening to primary anyone who votes against Paxton.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And all I can see is a bunch of businessmen saying,\u00a0<i>Awwwwww, he was so easy to buy off!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It appears that some of the <strong><em>GOP<\/em><\/strong> base think this is a <i>good\u00a0<\/i>thing. A dash of corruption to make the chili hot, so to speak. Logic would suggest that if Paxton&#8217;s corruptly using his office for this, it&#8217;s a good chance he&#8217;s corrupt in other areas.<\/p>\n<p>Why is it necessary that a flawed man do the will of God, anyways? The whole damn thing is silly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the impeachment trial of suspended Texas AG Ken Paxton (R-TX) under way in the Texas Senate, Professor Richardson summarizes\u00a0the sad contretemps of the Texas\u00a0GOP: The Republican Party in Texas is split over [suspended Texas Attorney General due to impeachment Ken] Paxton much as the country is split over former \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/09\/07\/thats-not-encouraging-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-39216","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\/39216","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=39216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39218,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39216\/revisions\/39218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}