{"id":4410,"date":"2013-03-07T12:33:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T17:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=4410"},"modified":"2013-03-07T12:34:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T17:34:08","slug":"the-fiilibuster-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2013\/03\/07\/the-fiilibuster-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The Filibuster is Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pet rocks, drive-in theaters, 8-track players and Senate filibusters.  One of these four things made a triumphant return to the Senate yesterday.   Rand Paul and friends engaged in an ol&#8217; school debate over the Obama administration&#8217;s drone policy &#8212; for 13 hours! <\/p>\n<span class=\"vvqbox vvqyoutube\" style=\"width:425px;height:344px;\"><span id=\"vvq-4410-youtube-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9Ny4LNM-zkc\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/9Ny4LNM-zkc\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube Preview Image\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<p>Whether you agree with Paul or not, actual Senators using the filibuster to actually deliberate about actual policy is a beautiful thing.  You almost get a glimpse of what representative democracy is supposed to be.  I&#8217;m not getting to used to the idea of Senators actually stepping up and actually debating ideas through the filibuster.  I recognize that few people in the Senate want to be on their feet for hours on end to oppose legislation.  But for at least one day, we got a look into how the filibuster could be used as a mechanism to draw out policy distinctions and grab the public&#8217;s attention as to the seriousness of the issues at hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pet rocks, drive-in theaters, 8-track players and Senate filibusters. One of these four things made a triumphant return to the Senate yesterday. Rand Paul and friends engaged in an ol&#8217; school debate over the Obama administration&#8217;s drone policy &#8212; for 13 hours! Whether you agree with Paul or not, actual Senators using the filibuster to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4412,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions\/4412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}