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The GOP in the Senate have gone to unprecedented levels in the last three years to break government and limit the power of the Administration by blocking through endless cloture denials consideration of administration officials and federal court judges. And it's not even been a matter of blocking "dangerous radicals" — clear moderates, with conservative … Continue reading “The sad thing is, it's not at all a precedent, or surprising”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,9],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-politics-law","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27432,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/17\/lack-of-business-as-usual.html","url_meta":{"origin":24283,"position":0},"title":"Lack-of-business as usual","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 17-Apr-12 1:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A nice article noting some newspapers finally taking a bit more time to note the difference between the Senate \"voting against\" something and the Senate being blocked from debating and voting on something by a GOP minority. #ddtb Embedded Link False-Equivalence Watch: Nice Work by the Times and Post! 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