{"id":197,"date":"2005-05-17T07:56:19","date_gmt":"2005-05-17T14:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/eg\/?p=197"},"modified":"2005-05-17T07:56:19","modified_gmt":"2005-05-17T14:56:19","slug":"changing-senate-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2005\/05\/changing-senate-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Senate Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the Senate is so eager to change the rules of the Senate, why don&#8217;t they change it so that any life-term appointment requires a 2\/3 up\/down vote.<\/p>\n<p>When you get right down to it, I would prefer that the federal judges have a super-majority consensus for appointment rather than the support of whatever idealogues are in the majority at the moment.  (Judges are the only ones that get life-time appointments, right?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the Senate is so eager to change the rules of the Senate, why don&#8217;t they change it so that any life-term appointment requires a 2\/3 up\/down vote. When you get right down to it, I would prefer that the federal judges have a super-majority consensus for appointment rather than the support of whatever idealogues &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2005\/05\/changing-senate-rules\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Changing Senate Rules<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-3b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}