{"id":7192,"date":"2016-12-15T16:17:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T22:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=7192"},"modified":"2016-12-15T16:17:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T22:17:22","slug":"dont-look-in-his-underwear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/15\/dont-look-in-his-underwear\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Look In His Underwear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continuing the fun, the man to lead the Department of Enery, former Governor Perry of TX, isn’t a nuclear physicist – and that’s the point of the DoE. Jeffrey Lewis on The Daily Beast <\/b><\/i>put it quite nicely<\/a>:<\/p>\n

But in recent years, the trend has been to appoint a Secretary of Energy with real technical expertise. President Bush appointed Samuel Bodman, who had a distinguished career as an MIT-trained chemical engineer before making a fortune in the private sector. President Obama upped the ante, appointing Berkeley\u2019s Steven Chu and MIT\u2019s Ernest Moniz to the position. Both are physicists. Chu has a Nobel Prize. By contrast, Perry took four chemistry courses<\/a> and got two Cs, a D and an F. He got a C in physics. And a D in something called \u201cMeat.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So did Perry apologize to Trump or not? After all, Perry did say<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is without substance when one scratches below the surface. He offers a barking carnival act that can be best described as Trumpism: A toxic mix of demagoguery and mean-spiritedness and nonsense that will lead the Republican Party to perdition if pursued,\u201d Perry said. \u201cLet no one be mistaken \u2014 Donald Trump\u2019s candidacy is a cancer on conservatism, and it must be clearly diagnosed, excised and discarded.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bankruptcy looming? Was he just drinking that night and didn’t mean it?<\/p>\n

Or no cojones?<\/p>\n

If I must be, reluctantly, open-minded, then perhaps Perry hopes to offer mature guidance to Trump. Although it’s not clear that Trump has any interest in that sort of thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Continuing the fun, the man to lead the Department of Enery, former Governor Perry of TX, isn’t a nuclear physicist – and that’s the point of the DoE. Jeffrey Lewis on The Daily Beast put it quite nicely: But in recent years, the trend has been to appoint a Secretary \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-7192","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\/7192","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=7192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7193,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7192\/revisions\/7193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}