{"id":394027,"date":"2010-03-05T16:50:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T21:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f22\/limited-government-senate-class-2010-a-40432\/"},"modified":"2010-03-05T16:50:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T21:50:33","slug":"the-limited-government-senate-class-of-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/394027","title":{"rendered":"The Limited Government Senate Class of 2010?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/532-the-limited-government-senate-class-of-2010\" ><b><font color=\"#0d507a\">The Limited Government Senate Class of 2010? <\/font><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n There has been a correspondent decline in the quality of America\u0092s senators since the Seventeenth Amendment&#8217;s progressive taint poisoned the waters of the Potomac. There is a reason that the 20th century didn&#8217;t produce a Webster, Clay or Calhoun. With states generally forming political entities too diverse to speak with a common voice, the result is usually senators who amplify rather than clarify the cacophony.<br \/>\n2010 may prove to be an exception to this pernicious trend, however. The public is rallying around a common sense of sobriety that finds the case for limited government as philosophically compelling as it is pragmatically compelled. And the result could prove to be an incoming class of freshman senators more amenable to the principled skepticism of the Founders than any in recent history.<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/532-the-limited-government-senate-class-of-2010\" ><font color=\"#0d507a\">Read more now.<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Limited Government Senate Class of 2010? There has been a correspondent decline in the quality of America\u0092s senators since the Seventeenth Amendment&#8217;s progressive taint poisoned the waters of the Potomac. There is a reason that the 20th century didn&#8217;t produce a Webster, Clay or Calhoun. With states generally forming political entities too diverse to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}