In 1937, the Democratic Senate Majority Leader — Joseph Robinson — passed away, opening up a contest to fill that spot between Alben Barkley and Pat Harrison.\u00c2\u00a0 Barkley won by a vote of 38 to 37 — Roosevelt favoring the more reliable Barkley, playing a\u00c2\u00a0two-faced game of “impartiality” in the manner but offering the key assistance.\u00c2\u00a0 Everyone immediately posed for “Party Unity” photographs, shaking hands, praises all around, publicized conferences.<\/p>\n
And Pat Harrison used the opportunity to separate himself more fully from the president.\u00c2\u00a0 The anti-New Deal Democrat\u00c2\u00a0nucleus\u00c2\u00a0for the Senate that consisted of\u00c2\u00a0Joshiah Bailey, Millard Tydings, Carter Glass, and Harry Byrd expanded as\u00c2\u00a0Roosevelt’s Court Fight went under way.\u00c2\u00a0 When Supreme Court Justice\u00c2\u00a0Owen Roberts bowed to political pressures and\u00c2\u00a0switched his\u00c2\u00a0judicial decisions from conservative to liberal<\/a> — a bullwark of opposition that some skeptical Conservative (largely Dixiecrat) Democrats had leaned on to serve as\u00c2\u00a0a line of\u00c2\u00a0Obstructionism they would not have to force themselves –\u00c2\u00a0served to\u00c2\u00a0move them further afield — during the War period, opposing every Domestic policy of the Roosevelt administration en masse.<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0How this plays in\u00c2\u00a0terms of modern day politics and the sudden comparisons to needing act like Roosevelt<\/a>, I can’t say.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps there is a “Use It or Lose It” lesson for Obama, or rather a\u00c2\u00a0“Watch your back”.\u00c2\u00a0 Or perhaps there is a lesson there in getting around devolved and artificial political procedural norms<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 But when dis-sembling Roosevelt,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 1937, the Democratic Senate Majority Leader — Joseph Robinson — passed away, opening up a contest to fill that spot between Alben Barkley and Pat Harrison.\u00c2\u00a0 Barkley won by a vote of 38 to 37 — Roosevelt favoring the more reliable Barkley, playing a\u00c2\u00a0two-faced game of “impartiality” in the manner but offering the key […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-regurgitates-forward"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4624,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions\/4624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}