{"id":8899,"date":"2017-04-04T16:34:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T21:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=8899"},"modified":"2017-04-04T16:34:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T21:34:38","slug":"it-might-even-be-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/04\/04\/it-might-even-be-true\/","title":{"rendered":"It Might Even Be True"},"content":{"rendered":"

In light of the repeated falsehoods coming from Senator McConnell regarding the confirmation of Supreme Court justices (“we never do that in election years<\/a>“, his reference to the non-existent Biden Rule, his misleading interpretation of Biden’s proposal<\/a>, his suggestion there’s no principled stand against Gorsuch<\/a>, and some minor stuff that can be found here<\/a>), I think there’s an opportunity next time Mitch comes up for election, an opportunity for Republican or Democrat.<\/p>\n

Suggest to voters he’s suffering from dementia<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Sure, someone could lie and poorly rationalize this badly. But it’d be more fun watching him and his supporters become angry at the suggestion that he’s incompetent.<\/p>\n

But the alternative, of course, is admitting he’s just lying and therefore betraying sacred Senate traditions<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Sure, he’ll wiggle and scream foul. But reminding voters of his preference for party over country will certainly break a few votes loose. And he just might lose his cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In light of the repeated falsehoods coming from Senator McConnell regarding the confirmation of Supreme Court justices (“we never do that in election years“, his reference to the non-existent Biden Rule, his misleading interpretation of Biden’s proposal, his suggestion there’s no principled stand against Gorsuch, and some minor stuff that \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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8899","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\/8899","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=8899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8900,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8899\/revisions\/8900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}