{"id":741,"date":"2009-09-22T15:41:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T19:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=741"},"modified":"2009-09-22T18:22:21","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T22:22:21","slug":"the-60th-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/741\/the-60th-senator\/","title":{"rendered":"The 60th Senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As much as Massachusetts Democrats fought to remove their Governor&#8217;s power to appoint temporary Senators, it appears that principal has taken a back seat to politics once again.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the <a href=\"http:\/\/bostonherald.com\/news\/politics\/view\/20090922senate_debate_expected_successor_bill_on_tap\/srvc=home&amp;position=recent\" target=\"_blank\">Massachusetts Senate approved a bill<\/a> allowing Governor Deval Patrick to name Senator Edward Kennedy&#8217;s replacement by as early as this week.<\/p>\n<p>This was the same Senate that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.milforddailynews.com\/news\/x1130871939\" target=\"_blank\">removed the power of the Governor<\/a> to appoint to temporary Senators in 2004 when Republican Mitt Romney ran the show.<\/p>\n<p>If there was ever a reason to loathe political parties, this is it.\u00a0 Principal and logic, two qualities that most Americans possess, are constantly subsumed to politics in today&#8217;s world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as Massachusetts Democrats fought to remove their Governor&#8217;s power to appoint temporary Senators, it appears that principal has taken a back seat to politics once again. Today, the Massachusetts Senate approved a bill allowing Governor Deval Patrick to name Senator Edward Kennedy&#8217;s replacement by as early as this week. This was the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[161,162,159,160],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-deval-patrick","tag-edward-kennedy","tag-massachusetts","tag-mitt-romney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}