{"id":464,"date":"2006-07-16T17:09:26","date_gmt":"2006-07-16T22:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=464"},"modified":"2006-10-23T15:48:42","modified_gmt":"2006-10-23T20:48:42","slug":"moderate-republicans-a-vanishing-political-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"Moderate Republicans &#8211; &#8220;a vanishing political phenomenon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Vic responded to my last post on the impeachment and sent me a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/archive\/content\/?030407fr_archive03\">2003 article from from the New Yorker<\/a> on the late Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan&#8217;s jaded views on Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the Senator thought about Clinton&#8217;s perjury the story&#8217;s author made this observation about moderate Republicans which the DeLay faction has brought to near extinction:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Moynihan&#8217;s closest friends in the Senate include aging symbols of moderate Republicanism, itself a vanishing political phenomenon. &#8220;You&#8217;d be amazed how easy it is to get along with Republicans of a certain kind,&#8221; Moynihan told me. Over the years, for example, he has worked closely with John Chafee, who now chairs the Environment and Public Works Committee. &#8220;Not long ago, in the committee, John announced that we&#8217;d just had a vote that came out purely on party lines, and he said, &#8216;That&#8217;s not how we work here.&#8217; But I&#8217;m afraid that, more and more, it is.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This new extremist party is the party that Rod Grams feels at home in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vic responded to my last post on the impeachment and sent me a 2003 article from from the New Yorker on the late Democratic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-2006","category-gods-own-party","category-grams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}