{"id":8063,"date":"2017-02-12T18:53:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T00:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=8063"},"modified":"2017-02-12T18:53:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T00:53:33","slug":"i-hate-it-when-i-get-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/02\/12\/i-hate-it-when-i-get-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hate It When I Get Recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Benjamin Wittes on Lawfare<\/strong><\/em> is appalled<\/a> to be quoted out of context by the POTUS<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

You read that correctly: The President of the United States was tweeting approvingly an article describing his motivations as “invidious” and describing his actions\u00a0using the phrase “incompetent malevolence.” …
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It is a portrait in inconsequential and comical miniature of the incompetence and dysfunction we’ve been seeing since day one of the Trump Administration. It’s the incompetence I wrote about the day after the executive order itself emerged with virtually no vetting<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Next time, I’ll just write “some guy on Lawfare, or maybe it was Judicial Watch, says Falcon All The Way, Baby<\/em>!”. But, of course, Benjamin’s quite correct – Trump has no idea how to run a professional operation, nor do his staff.<\/p>\n

And, yet, it’s sad that we have this opportunity to laugh at him like this. We desperately need serious people running an important part of this country – the part charged with governing and defending us. He’s been profoundly unserious – he may disagree in terms of intent, but in terms of effect it’s been a joke.<\/p>\n

And I’m saying this keeping my post concerning MLK, Jr<\/a>. firmly in mind. Honestly, part of me just pities him. He’s clearly in 10 feet of water with concrete blocks attached to his ankles. He needs better people – but his entire life has been spent hiring those who look good in their position, regardless of their merit. He doesn’t appear to have a clue.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And another part is just appalled. Appalled that he took in so many Americans, so many of my fellow<\/em> Americans. And that some of them, in fact a lot of them, apparently approve of his behavior. In the Gallup<\/strong><\/em> chart<\/a> on the left, I could not capture the actual numbers, so I’ll put them here – an approval rating of 40%, a disapproval rating of 55%. Sure, pundits rattle on that this is historically unprecedented.<\/p>\n

But, in terms of raw numbers, this is still discouraging. 40% of my fellow Americans still see President Trump as heading the right way, despite … well, I shan’t repeat myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Benjamin Wittes on Lawfare is appalled to be quoted out of context by the POTUS: You read that correctly: The President of the United States was tweeting approvingly an article describing his motivations as “invidious” and describing his actions\u00a0using the phrase “incompetent malevolence.” … It is a portrait in inconsequential \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-8063","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\/8063","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=8063"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8069,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8063\/revisions\/8069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}