{"id":43849,"date":"2026-02-11T12:21:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=43849"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:21:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:21:59","slug":"the-guv-seems-to-be-improving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/02\/11\/the-guv-seems-to-be-improving\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guv Seems To Be Improving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And I&#8217;m not taking about Governor Walz (D-MN). <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-kevin-stitt-governors-meeting-washington-ee4e696534082638795e1804d71f4966?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here&#8217;s the <em><strong>AP<\/strong><\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Because [National Governors Association&#8217;s] mission is to represent all 55 governors, the Association is no longer serving as the facilitator for [the Association&#8217;s annual business meeting, hosted by the White House], and it is no longer included in our official program,\u201d [Governor and NGA chairman] Kevin Stitt [(OK-R)] wrote in the letter, which was obtained by The Associated Press.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, this Republican governor just told off a President from his own Party. We may be seeing more cracks opening in the Republican establishment.<\/p>\n<p>On a side note, I don&#8217;t monitor Governor Stitt, but he&#8217;s pulled some dumb stunts, <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/12\/02\/countering-slick-magical-thinking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">such as this one<\/a>. I think this action indicates he&#8217;s come a ways and may realize that, no, the divine is not going to come down and save his ass. He has to do his own ass-saving, or even simply <strong>the right thing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I&#8217;m not taking about Governor Walz (D-MN). Here&#8217;s the AP: &#8220;Because [National Governors Association&#8217;s] mission is to represent all 55 governors, the Association is no longer serving as the facilitator for [the Association&#8217;s annual business meeting, hosted by the White House], and it is no longer included in our \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/02\/11\/the-guv-seems-to-be-improving\/\"> 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-43849","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\/43849","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=43849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43850,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43849\/revisions\/43850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}