{"id":2522,"date":"2013-05-29T08:52:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T12:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=2522"},"modified":"2015-04-24T20:53:50","modified_gmt":"2015-04-25T00:53:50","slug":"tim-alberta-the-cabal-that-quietly-took-over-the-house-national-journal-may-23-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/tim-alberta-the-cabal-that-quietly-took-over-the-house-national-journal-may-23-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Alberta, &#8220;The Cabal That Quietly Took Over the House,&#8221; National Journal, May 23, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 324px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn-media.nationaljournal.com\/?controllerName=image&amp;action=get&amp;id=28709&amp;width=314\" width=\"314\" height=\"548\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: NationalJournal.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I do not much care for the use of the term &#8220;cabal&#8221;&#8212;it is sensational and critical.<\/p>\n<p>That noted, I did find this article interesting. It considers the role that the Republican Study Committee (RSC) has played in the House of Representatives. The RSC was founded in the 1970s as a conservative counterweight to the purported leftward drift of the Republican&#8217;s party.<\/p>\n<p>As the figure to the left indicates, for quite a while the RSC was a small caucus. Now a majority of the House Republicans are part of it. Add to that factor the GOP&#8217;s takeover of the House in 2010 and it creates an interesting political situation.<\/p>\n<p>The article also provides interesting details in how the House works, such as how the RSC funds its employees, and offers observations about the current relationship between the RSC and the Speaker of the House.<\/p>\n<p>You may read more at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/magazine\/the-cabal-that-quietly-took-over-the-house-20130523\">http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/magazine\/the-cabal-that-quietly-took-over-the-house-20130523<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do not much care for the use of the term &#8220;cabal&#8221;&#8212;it is sensational and critical. That noted, I did find this article interesting. It considers the role that the Republican Study Committee (RSC) has played in the House of Representatives. The RSC was founded in the 1970s as a conservative counterweight to the purported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[68],"tags":[177],"class_list":["post-2522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-national-journal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-EG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2523,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}