{"id":177604,"date":"2019-08-07T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/07\/quote-of-the-day-i-cannot-believe-that-i-am-quoting-the-cato-institute-edition\/"},"modified":"2019-08-07T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T22:55:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-i-cannot-believe-that-i-am-quoting-the-cato-institute-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/07\/quote-of-the-day-i-cannot-believe-that-i-am-quoting-the-cato-institute-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day, I Cannot Believe That I Am Quoting the Cato Institute Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><b><span style=\"font-size: 120%; font-variant: small-caps;\">The real significance of Gabbard\u2019s critique, however, lies not in the proposition that Harris was a particularly unprofessional or malign prosecutor, but rather in the fact that she seems to have been a rather ordinary prosecutor who simply did her job the way most prosecutors do. And if that makes a former-prosecutor-turned-presidential-candidate look like a monster, then perhaps that says more about prosecutors in general than it does about Kamala Harris in particular.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/blog\/kamalas-conundrum\">Clark Neily<\/a>, and it was published at <i>Cato.org<\/i>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s an insightful perspective on our justice system and the role that the almost completely unaccountable power of prosecutors in this system.<\/p>\n<p>Power without accountability is a recipe for corruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The real significance of Gabbard\u2019s critique, however, lies not in the proposition that Harris was a particularly unprofessional or malign prosecutor, but rather in the fact that she seems to have been a rather ordinary prosecutor who simply did her job the way most prosecutors do. And if that makes a former-prosecutor-turned-presidential-candidate look like a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,464,407],"class_list":["post-177604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-good-writing","tag-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}