{"id":3800,"date":"2018-09-06T17:25:31","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T21:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/?p=3800"},"modified":"2018-09-06T23:51:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T03:51:42","slug":"acosta-it-wasnt-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/2018\/09\/06\/acosta-it-wasnt-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Acosta: It Wasn&#8217;t Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All across Washington this morning, messages went out from the White House to Cabinet Secretaries ordering them to make a public statement that they were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/white-house\/list-senior-trump-administration-officials-who-deny-writing-ny-times-n907106\">not the author<\/a> of the mysterious <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/05\/opinion\/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=opinion&amp;region=rank&amp;module=package&amp;version=highlights&amp;contentPlacement=6&amp;pgtype=sectionfront\">New York Times Op-Ed<\/a>\u00a0that assured the nation that the author and his (her?) co-conspirators are saving the country from the raving loon in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll be happy to know that one of the Cabinet Secretaries who did not write the op-ed was Labor Secretary Alex Acosta. Not a surprise. Acosta was at the top of no one&#8217;s list.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3801 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Acosta-Denial.jpg\" alt=\"acosta\" width=\"579\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Acosta-Denial.jpg 579w, https:\/\/jordanbarab.com\/confinedspace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Acosta-Denial-300x79.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reading between the lines of Acosta&#8217;s statement, however, reveals that he&#8217;s clearly feeling left out of the &#8220;sophomoric Washington games&#8221; that everyone else in the Administration gets to play.<\/p>\n<p>We feel his pain. The poor guy will just have to continue to entertain himself going after overtime, the joint employer policy, health care, child labor, harassing worker centers and trying to kill OSHA&#8217;s Susan Harwood Worker Training Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All across Washington this morning, messages went out from the White House to Cabinet Secretaries ordering them to make a public statement that they were\u00a0not the author of the mysterious New York Times Op-Ed\u00a0that assured the nation that the author and his (her?) co-conspirators are saving the country from the raving loon in the Oval [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alex-acosta"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Acosta: It Wasn&#039;t Me - Confined Space<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The author of the New York Times op-ed was not -- I repeat -- NOT Alex Acosta. 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