{"id":8663,"date":"2011-02-12T17:56:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T22:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8663"},"modified":"2011-02-12T17:56:26","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T22:56:26","slug":"retiring-kyl-webb-got-different-results-from-shunning-the-limelight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8663\/retiring-kyl-webb-got-different-results-from-shunning-the-limelight\/","title":{"rendered":"Retiring Kyl, Webb Got Different Results From Shunning The Limelight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week heard two U.S. Senators \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704132204576136190145301296.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Kyl<\/a> (R-AZ) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2011-02-10\/jim-webbs-senate-career-ends-peter-j-boyer-on-the-real-reason\/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsR1\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Webb<\/a> (D-VA) \u2013 announce their retirements.\u00a0 In 2012, Kyl will complete his third six-year term; Webb his first.\u00a0 Their time spent couldn\u2019t be more different.<\/p>\n<p>Kyl leaves as the number two Republican in Senate leadership.\u00a0 He compiled a record of legislative achievement on tax and defense policy unrivaled by his colleagues.\u00a0 Moreover, he did it by laboring outside the media limelight.<\/p>\n<p>Though Webb helped pass a major G.I. Bill, he didn\u2019t seem to emulate Kyl\u2019s ability to balance the demands of being a senator (endless fundraising, piecemeal victories) with the drive to be a successful politician.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s obvious from his record that Kyl wanted to be a senator to enact programs like pro-growth tax policy and missile defense.\u00a0 Webb ran for office in 2006 because he was against the Iraq War and the continued marginalization of his Southern Scots-Irish clan.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on the editorials that have been written about both men, it seems that there is at least one lesson to draw from Kyl\u2019s success and Webb\u2019s frustration: in the long run it\u2019s far better to be for something than against everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week heard two U.S. Senators \u2013 Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Jim Webb (D-VA) \u2013 announce their retirements.\u00a0 In 2012, Kyl will complete his third six-year term; Webb his first.\u00a0 Their time spent couldn\u2019t be more different. Kyl leaves as the number two Republican in Senate leadership.\u00a0 He compiled a record of legislative achievement on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1193,2396,1003,1599,2395,1236,178],"class_list":["post-8663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-campaign","tag-g-i-bill","tag-iraq-war","tag-jim-webb","tag-jon-kyl","tag-retirement","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8663","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8663"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8667,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8663\/revisions\/8667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}