{"id":13350,"date":"2016-03-09T01:39:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T01:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13350"},"modified":"2016-03-09T01:39:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T01:39:48","slug":"government-is-not-a-vacuum-sealed-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13350","title":{"rendered":"Government is not a vacuum-sealed profession"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_0631_JPG_312x1000_q100.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12700\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12700\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_0631_JPG_312x1000_q100-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0631_JPG_312x1000_q100\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_0631_JPG_312x1000_q100-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_0631_JPG_312x1000_q100.jpg 312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ted Cruz knows as well as any of the 100 men and women who work in the U.S. Senate that politicians don&#8217;t operate in a vacuum.<\/p>\n<p>The freshman Republican from Texas wants to become president. Were he to stroll into the Oval Office next January, he&#8217;ll have a serious issue to resolve.<\/p>\n<p>How is he going to work with the individuals who seem to despise him?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/09\/us\/politics\/ted-cruzs-prospects-ascendant-though-perhaps-not-with-senate-peers.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=first-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0\">Cruz stands alone in the Senate <\/a>among those who think highly of him. Or so it appears.<\/p>\n<p>As they say: The president <em>proposes<\/em> but Congress <em>disposes<\/em>. The Senate comprises half of the Capitol Building. The overwhelming consensus so far in this presidential campaign has been that Cruz &#8212; elected to the Senate in 2012 &#8212; has precious few friends and political allies in that body.<\/p>\n<p>So the question persists on my mind: How does this guy expect to get a single thing done while working with a legislative body comprising individuals who can&#8217;t stand him?<\/p>\n<p>Presidents don&#8217;t work in a vacuum. The most successful of them know how to legislate, know that to get anything done requires them to compromise.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz keeps yapping about never yielding to the other side, never cutting deals, never forsaking his strong conservative principles.<\/p>\n<p>I take that to mean that it&#8217;s going to be his way or the highway.<\/p>\n<p>Strange. Isn&#8217;t that what Republicans have been saying about President Barack Obama?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Cruz knows as well as any of the 100 men and women who work in the U.S. Senate that politicians don&#8217;t operate in a vacuum. The freshman Republican from Texas wants to become president. Were he to stroll into the Oval Office next January, he&#8217;ll have a serious issue to resolve. How is he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13350\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Government is not a vacuum-sealed profession<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[4209,4537,5051],"class_list":["post-13350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-senate-gop","tag-ted-cruz","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13352,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13350\/revisions\/13352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}