{"id":899,"date":"2006-11-04T22:38:08","date_gmt":"2006-11-05T03:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=899"},"modified":"2017-03-03T21:19:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T02:19:38","slug":"one-conservatives-vote-for-divided-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=899","title":{"rendered":"One conservative&#8217;s vote for divided government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bostonherald.com\/editorial\/view.bg?articleid=165495&#038;srvc=home\">Brett Arends<\/a> of the Boston Herald:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\">&#8220;Real conservatives, after all, believe in smaller government, lower spending, balanced budgets, individual freedom, checks and balances, political restraint, states&#8217; rights, a prudent foreign policy, and a deep respect of the Constitution.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\">Seen any of that recently?<br \/>\nA vote for divided government is a vote for the basic principle of our republic. Our Constitution doesn&#8217;t mention political parties. The Founding Fathers warned against them. But they were explicit about the need for checks and balances, and for a tight rein on the executive branch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\">Can anyone but a partisan hack seriously argue we have that right now? <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\">America<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Verdana\"> has done best when the White House and Congress have been in different hands.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Brett Arends of the Boston Herald: &#8220;Real conservatives, after all, believe in smaller government, lower spending, balanced budgets, individual freedom, checks and balances,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,23,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899"}],"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=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21015,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/21015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}