{"id":37,"date":"2003-06-21T02:29:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-21T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2010-09-29T19:19:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T00:19:12","slug":"37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/21\/37\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry&#8217;s Boolean Criteria for a Fillibuster?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, and check out the <b>Boolean<\/b> construction in his criteria for a fillibuster.  It&#8217;s not really clear.  He&#8217;ll fillibuster a candidate who <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font face=\"courier\">((would turn back the clock on a woman&#8217;s right to choose <b>OR<\/b> would turn back the clock the constitutional right to privacy <b>OR<\/b> (would turn back the clock on civil rights <b>AND<\/b> individual liberties)) <b>AND<\/b> would turn back the clock on the laws protecting workers) <b>AND<\/b> would turn back the clock on the environment<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a pretty convoluted criteria, and a pretty tough one to meet.  I reckon <b>no candidate<\/b> would, which means Kerry&#8217;s algorithmic condition will <b>never<\/b> be met.  No <font face=\"courier\">fillibuster(String supremeCourtNominee)<\/font> method call at all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, and check out the Boolean construction in his criteria for a fillibuster. It&#8217;s not really clear. He&#8217;ll fillibuster a candidate who ((would turn back the clock on a woman&#8217;s right to choose OR would turn back the clock the constitutional right to privacy OR (would turn back the clock on civil rights AND individual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8107,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/8107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}