{"id":8127,"date":"2003-03-07T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-07T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/03\/07\/every-democrat-vote-counts\/"},"modified":"2003-03-07T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-07T19:15:00","slug":"every-democrat-vote-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/03\/every-democrat-vote-counts\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Democrat vote counts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"articles\">WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; President Bush lost a showdown in a<br \/>\nsharply divided Senate on Thursday as Democrats blocked his nomination of Miguel<br \/>\nEstrada, a conservative Hispanic attorney, to a federal appeals court judgeship.<br \/>\nEstrada&#8217;s Republican backers fell five votes short of the 60 needed in the 100-member<br \/>\nSenate to end a month-long debate and clear the way for a confirmation vote.<br \/>\nThey promised to try again, perhaps as early as next week, as they seek to mount<br \/>\npublic pressure on Democrats to back Bush&#8217;s bid to make Estrada the first Hispanic<br \/>\non the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. <br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=GYK4VZR21WINACRBAEKSFFA?type=topNews&amp;storyID=2339697\">Full<br \/>\nStory<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">Let me try to understand this. In the presidential election year<br \/>\nall we heard from the Democrats was every vote counts the majority rules. They<br \/>\neven complained about the Constitution provision for electing the President<br \/>\nbeing based on the Electoral College instead of the popular vote. But now every<br \/>\nvote doesn&#8217;t count and the minority can trump the majority. Over and over again<br \/>\nin judicial nominations everything has been done to prevent a straight up or<br \/>\ndown vote. Time for a name change for the Undemocratic Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; President Bush lost a showdown in a sharply divided Senate on Thursday as Democrats blocked his nomination of Miguel Estrada, a conservative Hispanic attorney, to a federal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}