{"id":39917,"date":"2024-03-05T12:20:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T18:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=39917"},"modified":"2024-03-05T12:20:18","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T18:20:18","slug":"this-bull-is-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/03\/05\/this-bull-is-running\/","title":{"rendered":"This Bull Is Running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans once again display a failure to think:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ernst: Because of that, we want to stop him from actually delivering the state of the union. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7mVhb10brp\">pic.twitter.com\/7mVhb10brp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1764749330836082858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA)]: Because of that, we want to stop him from actually delivering the state of the union.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>That<\/em> being a couple of deliverables, including a proposed budget, which have yet to be delivered. Notably, the House would reject them if delivered, no doubt with a vitriolic turn of phrase as well. Such is the quality of Republican members of Congress these days.<\/p>\n<p>But Rep Scott Perry (R-PA) was notably more blunt on the matter a week or so ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"rte__paragraph\" data-v-047246db=\"\">Conservative Rep. Scott Perry suggested that House Republicans rescind President Joe Biden&#8217;s State of the Union invitation for March 7 over immigration and border policies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rte__paragraph\" data-v-047246db=\"\">&#8220;We need to use every single point of leverage,&#8221; Perry\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/video\/6347679435112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said on Fox Business&#8217; &#8220;Mornings with Maria.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;He comes at the invitation of Congress, and Republicans are in control of the House. There\u2019s no reason that we need to invite him to get more propaganda.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"rte__paragraph\" data-v-047246db=\"\">Perry, the former head of the House Freedom Caucus, claimed allowing Biden to deliver the address would merely allow the president to &#8220;actually blame the American people for the crisis he\u2019s caused.\u201d<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/02\/26\/congress\/perry-biden-sotu-border-cancel-00143329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Politico<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-v-047246db=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/PXL_20231019_212135138-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-39919 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/PXL_20231019_212135138-scaled.jpg?resize=207%2C452&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/PXL_20231019_212135138-scaled.jpg?w=1173&amp;ssl=1 1173w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/PXL_20231019_212135138-scaled.jpg?resize=137%2C300&amp;ssl=1 137w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/PXL_20231019_212135138-scaled.jpg?resize=469%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 469w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/PXL_20231019_212135138-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1676&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/PXL_20231019_212135138-scaled.jpg?resize=704%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 704w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/PXL_20231019_212135138-scaled.jpg?resize=938%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 938w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/PXL_20231019_212135138-scaled.jpg?resize=69%2C150&amp;ssl=1 69w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s the thing: this speech is coming, whether it&#8217;s delivered in the Capitol to a joint session, or in the White House &#8211; or Scranton, PA.<\/p>\n<p data-v-047246db=\"\">But the actions of Congressional Republicans can make Biden&#8217;s &#8220;propaganda,&#8221; which I read as <em>Facts Republicans don&#8217;t like<\/em>, as even more bright than usual by retracting the invitation. Right now it&#8217;s just a normal State of the Union (<strong>SOTU<\/strong>) speech, but a speech in Scranton, or in Atlanta, or in Tallahassee, billed as the <strong>SOTU<\/strong> speech, with a carefully controlled audience, would draw not only even more media attention, but the public&#8217;s attention as well.<\/p>\n<p data-v-047246db=\"\">It doesn&#8217;t matter what Rep Perry thinks of Biden&#8217;s report on the state of the union; his own extremist positions, from which he judges Biden&#8217;s words as &#8220;propaganda,&#8221; is really quite irrelevant. But the actions of his colleagues in being petty?<\/p>\n<p data-v-047246db=\"\">Priceless for Democratic strategists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans once again display a failure to think: Ernst: Because of that, we want to stop him from actually delivering the state of the union. pic.twitter.com\/7mVhb10brp &mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) March 4, 2024 [Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA)]: Because of that, we want to stop him from actually delivering the state of \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/03\/05\/this-bull-is-running\/\"> 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-39917","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\/39917","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=39917"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39920,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39917\/revisions\/39920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}