{"id":39539,"date":"2023-12-06T19:18:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T01:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=39539"},"modified":"2023-12-06T19:18:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T01:18:06","slug":"the-gracious-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/12\/06\/the-gracious-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gracious Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who the hell votes for this guy?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/clptzv1e800013b6htfcm6b8t@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is resigning from Congress and will leave at the end of this year, he announced in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/kevin-mccarthy-to-quit-congress-months-after-being-ousted-as-house-speaker-17d7d420?mod=breakingnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Wall Street Journal op-ed<\/a> on Wednesday \u2014 a highly anticipated decision that comes two months after his unprecedented ouster from the speakership. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy is leaving Congress having made a few enemies within the House GOP Conference. Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz was quick to take a victory lap, posting \u201cMcLeavin\u201d and promoting a previously released thirteen-minute video based on the ouster of McCarthy, which he led.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/12\/06\/politics\/kevin-mccarthy-resigning\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>CNN\/Politics<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mean McCarthy, who is reportedly quite the charmer, but this idiot Gaetz, who apparently never grew up beyond 8th grade.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if such behavior will cost him his seat next election. I suppose it&#8217;s up to the voters in his district as to whether they want to be represented by an adult, or a child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who the hell votes for this guy? Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy is resigning from Congress and will leave at the end of this year, he announced in\u00a0a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Wednesday \u2014 a highly anticipated decision that comes two months after his unprecedented ouster from the speakership. \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/12\/06\/the-gracious-winner\/\"> 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-39539","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\/39539","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=39539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39540,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39539\/revisions\/39540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}