{"id":18732,"date":"2021-12-03T10:14:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T17:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=18732"},"modified":"2021-12-03T10:14:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T17:14:09","slug":"firing-line-friday-the-problems-of-a-conservative-legislator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/12\/03\/firing-line-friday-the-problems-of-a-conservative-legislator\/","title":{"rendered":"Firing Line Friday: The Problems of a Conservative Legislator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;There is more to being a legislator, even in the Senate, than telling your base that you will fight for the, and many attempts to actually \u201cfight\u201d tend to be more of a \u201cflailing\u201d around. This is especially true for actual conservative legislators, as is the case with William F. Buckley\u2019s brother, and then-new Senator for the state of New York of the Conservative Party, <a href=\"https:\/\/digitalcollections.hoover.org\/objects\/6190\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Lane Buckley<\/a>, as this discussion between the two brothers from half-a-century ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kD8UCxkt2QY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Until next Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg 591w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1px) 100vw, 1px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Firing Line Friday: The Problems of a Conservative Legislator\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"There is more to being a legislator, even in the Senate, than telling your base that you will fight for the, and many attempts to actually \u2018fight\u2019 tend to be more of a \u2018flailing\u2019 around.  This is especially true for actual conservative legislators, as is the case with William F. Buckley\u2019s brother, and then-new Senator for the state of New York of the Conservative Party, James Lane Buckely, as this discussion between the two brothers from half-a-century ago.\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/William-F-Buckley-Jr.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.\u2019s \u201cFiring Line\u201d. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;There is more to being a legislator, even in the Senate, than telling your base that you will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2021\/12\/03\/firing-line-friday-the-problems-of-a-conservative-legislator\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-18732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","tag-firing-line-friday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18734,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18732\/revisions\/18734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}