{"id":156,"date":"2013-05-26T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/26\/dole-speaks-of-badly-bent-u-s-senate"},"modified":"2013-05-26T19:08:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T19:08:00","slug":"dole-speaks-of-badly-bent-u-s-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Dole speaks of \u2018badly bent\u2019 U.S. Senate"},"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>Bob Dole is a creature of the U.S. Senate and he knows it well.<\/p>\n<p>The former Kansas Republican lawmaker \u2013 and two-time nominee for national political office \u2013 says the World\u2019s Greatest Deliberative Body is \u201cbadly bent\u201d and needs repair.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/politico-live\/2013\/05\/dole-senate-is-bent-pretty-badly-164796.html?hp=l5\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/politico-live\/2013\/05\/dole-senate-is-bent-pretty-badly-164796.html?hp=l5\">http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/politico-live\/2013\/05\/dole-senate-is-bent-pretty-badly-164796.html?hp=l5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you think?<\/p>\n<p>Dole spoke on Fox News Sunday today and lamented what\u2019s happened to the body he used to lead as its majority leader. He decries the Republicans\u2019 use \u2013 or misuse \u2013 of the filibuster, complaining that the Senate now needs 60 votes to pass virtually anything.<\/p>\n<p>Dole once was considered a Republican bad boy, mean-spirited in the extreme. As a vice-presidential nominee on a ticket headed by President Ford in 1976, he once referred to all the deaths that occurred during \u201cDemocrat wars.\u201d Twenty years later, as his party\u2019s presidential nominee, Dole had softened his approach a bit, but not much while losing that year\u2019s election in a near-landslide to President Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Now, though, he\u2019s an elder statesman, part of what the tea party wing of his party calls the \u201cestablishment wing\u201d of the Republican Party. He well might become a target for the GOP insurgents who have taken joy in knocking off its partisan elders.<\/p>\n<p>He ought to be taken seriously as one who has served his country with valor in war \u2013 and suffered grievous battlefield wounds in the process \u2013 and with distinction and honor as a U.S. senator.<\/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>Bob Dole is a creature of the U.S. Senate and he knows it well. The former Kansas Republican lawmaker \u2013 and two-time nominee for national political office \u2013 says the World\u2019s Greatest Deliberative Body is \u201cbadly bent\u201d and needs repair. http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/politico-live\/2013\/05\/dole-senate-is-bent-pretty-badly-164796.html?hp=l5 Do you think? Dole spoke on Fox News Sunday today and lamented what\u2019s happened &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=156\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dole speaks of \u2018badly bent\u2019 U.S. Senate<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","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=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}