{"id":42132,"date":"2025-04-04T17:19:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T22:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42132"},"modified":"2025-04-13T09:38:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T14:38:30","slug":"earl-landgrebe-award-nominee-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/04\/04\/earl-landgrebe-award-nominee-56\/","title":{"rendered":"Earl Landgrebe Award Nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time around we have Rep Victoria Spartz (R-FL) at a townhall:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:iu4j537hox5huj4bwnwgub4z\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3llhzis22cp2b\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreicaoexonmm4yklahsc4gg6zfjwcwatuv7ada4chnrm63qxj44daru\">\n<p lang=\"en\">\u201cWill you demand the immediate resignation of Pete Hegseth, Michael Waltz, and the rest of the group chat\u201dSpartz: No Crowd: Booo<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:iu4j537hox5huj4bwnwgub4z?ref_src=embed\">Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:iu4j537hox5huj4bwnwgub4z\/post\/3llhzis22cp2b?ref_src=embed\">2025-03-28T23:59:47.425Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWill you demand the immediate resignation of Pete Hegseth, Michael Waltz, and the rest of the group chat\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spartz: No<\/p>\n<p>Crowd: Booo<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PXL_20210523_203552352.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-42134 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PXL_20210523_203552352.jpg?resize=235%2C312&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PXL_20210523_203552352.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PXL_20210523_203552352.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PXL_20210523_203552352.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PXL_20210523_203552352.jpg?resize=1152%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1152w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/PXL_20210523_203552352.jpg?resize=113%2C150&amp;ssl=1 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a>Only unspeakable, if understandable, loyalty to the President explains such a refusal to do her duty. She could have made a satisfactory answer out of <em>I&#8217;m considering it<\/em>, but she didn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>But long-term readers will be considering the possibility that voters of a conservative tilt, long trained to make judgments solely on issues, and not to pay attention to experience, competency, moderation, and ability to negotiate compromises &#8211; even to loathe such attributes &#8211; may now be reconsidering these metrics by which to judge Republican candidates. That&#8217;s a drum I&#8217;ve been beating for a while.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that a candidate can do the abortion jig, the gun rights yodel, even the anti-tax howl, may soon become <strong>burdens<\/strong> for Republican candidates, rather than advantages. The more Congress sits on its hands as President Trump&#8217;s actions, whether by his mistaken view of the world or on purpose, convert the nation from the leading country on Earth to a quivering lump of sodden gelatin, the more likely there will be a mass replacement of Republican Congresspeople in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Not that the replacements will necessarily be Democrats. The Democrats, <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/04\/02\/get-out-the-goat-entrails-ctd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for all of their anticipation at the recent gains in elections<\/a> since the 2024 Election, have yet to demonstrate significant attempts at reform, although efforts by Governor Newsom (D-CA) and Rep Moulton (D-MA) can be viewed with some optimism by those who are conscious of the errors imputed to Democrats &#8211; and their allies. Along with <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/04\/07\/straying-from-the-foundation-ctd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mismanaging the transgender issue<\/a>, they need to deal with the charges of anti-semitism, the lack of a primary for VP Harris&#8217; ascension to the top of the 2024 ticket after Biden left the race, a general sense of an autocratic inclination, and a few other issues, and, internally, their turn to identitarianism, and what to do about the DEI issue, which currently seems to have become a loser with the citizenry. Oh, and much like the Republicans, the <strong>arrogance<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I offer no solutions. I&#8217;m an independent. I observe that, against a <del>pathetic group of<\/del> group of pathetic\u00a0Republican candidates, <em>the Democrats lost<\/em>. That observation, if they&#8217;re honest, and willing to kick out those who stubbornly cling to positions designed to preserve their positions in the power hierarchy in the Party, should help guide them towards success.<\/p>\n<p>And if they can&#8217;t? Then both Parties deserve to be replaced, not just the Republicans. Both Parties are a discouragement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time around we have Rep Victoria Spartz (R-FL) at a townhall: \u201cWill you demand the immediate resignation of Pete Hegseth, Michael Waltz, and the rest of the group chat\u201dSpartz: No Crowd: Booo &mdash; Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-03-28T23:59:47.425Z \u201cWill you demand the immediate resignation of Pete Hegseth, Michael Waltz, and the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/04\/04\/earl-landgrebe-award-nominee-56\/\"> 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-42132","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\/42132","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=42132"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42177,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42132\/revisions\/42177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}