{"id":39922,"date":"2024-03-07T18:28:32","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T00:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=39922"},"modified":"2024-03-07T18:28:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T00:28:32","slug":"damn-near-horizontal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/03\/07\/damn-near-horizontal\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn Near Horizontal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rightward lean of the Republicans continues with this <strong>RINO<\/strong> hunter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>State Sen. Andre Jacque on Monday announced he is running for Congress, setting up a primary race for the northeastern Wisconsin House seat left open by the impending retirement of Rep. Mike Gallagher. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[Jacque] said one of his first priorities in Congress would be &#8220;restraining the administrative state&#8221; and suggested he&#8217;d also take aim at environmental, social and corporate governance programs, known as ESG. Asked by a listener whether he changed his opposition to vaccine mandates after his serious bout with COVID in 2021, Jacque said he had not and suggested he led the charge to &#8220;stop the persecution that we have seen from the left as a result of COVID.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jacque also pointed to his state-level races against Republicans he described as not conservative enough. He claimed his email used to be &#8220;wiRINOhunter&#8221; \u2014 using the acronym for Republican In Name Only.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2024\/03\/04\/andre-jacque-8th-congressional-district\/72837346007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>milwaukee journal sentinel<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t learn from experience with regards to <strong>COVID<\/strong>, and calls himself a <strong>RINO<\/strong> hunter, because he&#8217;s convinced purity and zealotry triumphs over humility and thoughtfulness.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s a red district, meaning he has little reason to modify positions and to, well, think a bit.<\/p>\n<p>This is the near future of the Republican Party. Lara Trump, candidate to be chair of the <em><strong>Republican National Committee<\/strong><\/em>, has proclaimed there will be purity tests for the Republicans. The Party will continue to shrink and lose influence.<\/p>\n<p>I hope it&#8217;s confined only to expulsions, meaning I&#8217;m worried about intra-party violence with this crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rightward lean of the Republicans continues with this RINO hunter: State Sen. Andre Jacque on Monday announced he is running for Congress, setting up a primary race for the northeastern Wisconsin House seat left open by the impending retirement of Rep. Mike Gallagher. &#8230; [Jacque] said one of his \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/03\/07\/damn-near-horizontal\/\"> 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-39922","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\/39922","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=39922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39923,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39922\/revisions\/39923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}