{"id":42418,"date":"2025-06-09T16:37:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T21:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42418"},"modified":"2025-06-09T16:37:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T21:37:29","slug":"homeless-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/06\/09\/homeless-senator\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless Senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d sure like to view Senator John Kennedy&#8217;s (R-LA) flow of thoughts right at the moment, in view of this exchange with Commerce Secretary, and billionaire lacking any sort of link with reality, Luttnick:<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">KENNEDY: If Vietnam came to you and said, &#39;You win. We&#39;re gonna remove all tariffs and all trade barriers. Would the US please do the same?&quot; Would you accept that deal?<\/p>\n<p>LUTNICK: Absolutely not. That would be the silliest thing we could do<\/p>\n<p>KENNEDY: What&#39;s the purpose of\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oR7B84MhZq\">pic.twitter.com\/oR7B84MhZq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1930282145047581145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>KENNEDY: If Vietnam came to you and said, &#8216;You win. We&#8217;re gonna remove all tariffs and all trade barriers. Would the US please do the same?&#8221; Would you accept that deal?<\/p>\n<p>LUTNICK: Absolutely not. That would be the silliest thing we could do<\/p>\n<p>KENNEDY: What&#8217;s the purpose of reciprocity then?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Judging from the Senator&#8217;s line of inquiry, he&#8217;s rapidly finding himself separating from the Trump Administration. Keeping in mind that Senator Kennedy was once a Democrat and he&#8217;s an old-line politician, I have to wonder if he&#8217;s considering his next move.<\/p>\n<p>Return to the Democrats? Seems unlikely. He left for a reason. Stick with the Republicans? While it seems the easiest, if his constituents begin to hate on the Republicans, then his seat may be endangered.<\/p>\n<p>Become Independent? He&#8217;d be joining King and Sanders, and possibly Murkowski, in this category. That&#8217;s make for a fascinating mess.<\/p>\n<p>I think he&#8217;ll quietly stick with the Republicans or retire, as he&#8217;s in his early seventies now and his body probably detests the long hours of politics. But it&#8217;s worth keeping an eye on his guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d sure like to view Senator John Kennedy&#8217;s (R-LA) flow of thoughts right at the moment, in view of this exchange with Commerce Secretary, and billionaire lacking any sort of link with reality, Luttnick: KENNEDY: If Vietnam came to you and said, &#39;You win. We&#39;re gonna remove all tariffs and \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/06\/09\/homeless-senator\/\"> 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-42418","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\/42418","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=42418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42419,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42418\/revisions\/42419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}