{"id":4959,"date":"2023-01-25T09:53:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T14:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4959"},"modified":"2023-02-02T16:10:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T21:10:46","slug":"the-congressional-fight-over-the-house-speakership-was-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/the-congressional-fight-over-the-house-speakership-was-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"The congressional fight over the House Speakership was a good thing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Now that a couple of weeks have passed and the noise has begun to subside, we can take a broader view of what McCarthy\u2019s election suggests about Congress and the state of American politics. The media had it wrong: to equate Mr. McCarthy\u2019s struggles to win the Speakership with political dysfunction is to grossly misunderstand both politics and Congress. In truth, the long debate over who should be speaker was a healthy expression of Madisonian transactional politics, and it helped illuminate the path toward restoring the people\u2019s House as the seat of American self-government…. (Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that a couple of weeks have passed and the noise has begun to subside, we can take a broader view of what McCarthy\u2019s election suggests about Congress and the state of American politics. The media had it wrong: to equate Mr. McCarthy\u2019s struggles to win the Speakership with political dysfunction is to grossly misunderstand […]<\/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":[160],"tags":[239],"class_list":["post-4959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","tag-public-discourse"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-1hZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959","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=4959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4961,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions\/4961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}