{"id":30575,"date":"2018-06-27T15:54:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T15:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30575"},"modified":"2018-06-27T15:54:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T15:54:07","slug":"term-limit-movement-might-have-taken-a-big-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30575","title":{"rendered":"Term limit movement might have taken a big hit"},"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>I feel compelled to offer a word about term limits and the notion that we ought to restrict the length of time people can serve in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll provide a name that suggests that we already have term limits: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old New York City community activist knocked off a 10-term Democratic incumbent, Joe Crowley, in Tuesday&#8217;s primary election. Crowley was thought to be on the fast track to serious congressional leadership and power.<\/p>\n<p>He is now on a <em>faster<\/em> track toward private life. Why? He wasn&#8217;t doing the job to his constituents&#8217; satisfaction. So they acted. With their votes. Crowley is a goner.<\/p>\n<p>Term limits? We&#8217;ve already got &#8217;em, man!<\/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>I feel compelled to offer a word about term limits and the notion that we ought to restrict the length of time people can serve in Congress. I&#8217;ll provide a name that suggests that we already have term limits: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The 28-year-old New York City community activist knocked off a 10-term Democratic incumbent, Joe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30575\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Term limit movement might have taken a big hit<\/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":[14],"tags":[849,1112,4552,6262],"class_list":["post-30575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","tag-capitol-hill","tag-congress","tag-term-limits","tag-us-house-of-representatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30575","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=30575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30580,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30575\/revisions\/30580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}