{"id":2415,"date":"2003-05-15T15:03:10","date_gmt":"2003-05-15T22:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/05\/the-anti-democratic-party\/"},"modified":"2003-05-15T15:03:10","modified_gmt":"2003-05-15T22:03:10","slug":"the-anti-democratic-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/15\/the-anti-democratic-party\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anti-Democratic Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tTexas Dems are <a title=\"The Fat Guy: Killer D's\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatguy.com\/archives\/003003.html#003003\">on the lam<\/a> to stop a fair redistricting plan, and US Senate Dems <a href=\"http:\/\/lsolum.blogspot.com\/2003_05_01_lsolum_archive.html#200297443\">use filibuster to block<\/a> court appointments that have majority support. <\/p>\n<p>Taken together, these moves represent a reliance on anti-democratic means of advancing an agenda with which the majority clearly does not agree. So they&#8217;re now the Anti-Democratic Party, nothing more and nothing less.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Dems are on the lam to stop a fair redistricting plan, and US Senate Dems use filibuster to block court appointments that have majority support. Taken together, these moves represent a reliance on anti-democratic means of advancing an agenda with which the majority clearly does not agree. So they&#8217;re now the Anti-Democratic Party, nothing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/15\/the-anti-democratic-party\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Anti-Democratic Party&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-CX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}