{"id":8097,"date":"2017-02-14T22:22:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T04:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=8097"},"modified":"2017-02-14T22:23:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T04:23:28","slug":"8097","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/02\/14\/8097\/","title":{"rendered":"Git Yer Scorecard!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><b>FiveThirtyEight <\/b><\/i>provides a <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/congress-trump-score\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/congress-trump-score\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1487207238683000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHuiGkO-N0tLZEcsgJz3xc1zXgAkQ\">handy chart <\/a>of how legislators are voting with respect to Trump&#8217;s preferences. Naturally, this provides a splendid measure of the team politics meme and how it&#8217;s destroying our political culture. I see that, up to today, Rand Paul, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski are the only GOP Senators who are not 100% in with the Party line. I wonder if they&#8217;ll end up paying for that, or if the Trump era will end before vengeance can be exacted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/538-voting-tally.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8098\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/538-voting-tally.jpg?resize=800%2C572&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/538-voting-tally.jpg?w=1050&amp;ssl=1 1050w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/538-voting-tally.jpg?resize=300%2C215&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/538-voting-tally.jpg?resize=768%2C549&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/538-voting-tally.jpg?resize=1024%2C732&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/538-voting-tally.jpg?resize=210%2C150&amp;ssl=1 210w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/538-voting-tally.jpg?resize=150%2C107&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>The House, being much larger, has more opportunities to step out of line. Right on the first page of 8 Republicans I see two who don&#8217;t toe the line with enthusiasm, and paging along I see several more. But it&#8217;s a little incautious to read much into this, since we&#8217;re not talking about nominees, and we may be seeing minor legislation on which Trump has an opinion, but not a strong one.<\/p>\n<p>Still, quite interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FiveThirtyEight provides a handy chart of how legislators are voting with respect to Trump&#8217;s preferences. Naturally, this provides a splendid measure of the team politics meme and how it&#8217;s destroying our political culture. I see that, up to today, Rand Paul, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski are the only GOP \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/02\/14\/8097\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/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-8097","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\/8097","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=8097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8100,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8097\/revisions\/8100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}