{"id":16,"date":"2012-07-10T02:04:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T02:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/WPTest\/?p=16"},"modified":"2012-07-10T02:04:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T02:04:17","slug":"another-test-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/07\/10\/another-test-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Another test post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the newly-elected Republicans take over in a few days, their first order of business will be to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/12\/29\/AR2010122904666.html\" target=\"_blank\">read the United States Constitution<\/a> on the floor of the house. That\u2019s never been done before, which might explain a few things about why we\u2019re in the state we are. And then they want to require that the author of every new bill\u00a0 include a statement citing the constitutional authority to enact the legislation. That part is to assuage some of the Tea Party outrage that swept them into power again.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s all meaningless because so much of the Constitution has been rendered moot by activist judges.<\/p>\n<p>All any legislator need do is claim the bill \u2013 any bill \u2013 is authorized under the \u201cnecessary and proper\u201d and\/or \u201ccommerce\u201d clause(s). Since they\u2019ve been expanded by the Supremes to pretty much allow anything Congress wants to do, there you go.<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that, after a few bills are rejected for show during the first month or two, exactly zero bills will be booted as unconstitutional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the newly-elected Republicans take over in a few days, their first order of business will be to read the United States Constitution on the floor of the house. That\u2019s never been done before, which might explain a few things about why we\u2019re in the state we are. And then they want to require that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}