{"id":7598,"date":"2014-11-03T18:15:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T18:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/11\/03\/vote-the-party-not-the-candidate\/"},"modified":"2014-11-03T18:15:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T18:15:59","slug":"vote-the-party-not-the-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/11\/03\/vote-the-party-not-the-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote the Party, Not the Candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecatholicthing.org\/columns\/2014\/vote-the-man-not-the-party-is-bad-advice\/print.html\" target=\"_self\">Here\u2019s why<\/a>. Whatever party takes over the Senate will not only be able to appoint the body\u2019s Majority Leader, it will control the committee chairmanships, which in turn will determine what types of legislation will be entertained by the Senate. Because the Senate has the power of advise and consent when the president appoints judges and justices to the federal bench, the partisan composition of the Senate will shape the development of the courts\u2019 jurisprudence for many decades to come. Thus, it is of little consequence what one or two dissenting Senators may have said on the campaign trail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Those who utter the \u201cvote for the man, not the party\u201d slogan, though undoubtedly offering it as a sincere call to \u201crise above\u201d partisan politics, do not really understand that partisanship is embedded in the very nature of our political institutions. To lament partisanship is to lament one of the consequences of being a free people. So, if you don\u2019t like partisanship, you should move to Cuba.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s why. Whatever party takes over the Senate will not only be able to appoint the body\u2019s Majority Leader, it will control the committee chairmanships, which in turn will determine what types of legislation will be entertained by the Senate. Because the Senate has the power of advise and consent when the president appoints judges &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/11\/03\/vote-the-party-not-the-candidate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vote the Party, Not the Candidate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}