{"id":31076,"date":"2018-07-18T02:18:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T02:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31076"},"modified":"2018-07-18T02:18:32","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T02:18:32","slug":"dont-go-anywhere-mad-dog-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31076","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t go anywhere, Mad Dog &#8230; please!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/mattis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31077\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/mattis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the president of the United States tries to clean up the wreckage of that hideous meeting with Vladimir Putin and the press availability the two of them had, I have a request to make of some key members of the president&#8217;s Cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>I still expect to see some members of the administration team to resign. I want to plead for Defense Secretary James &#8220;Mad Dog&#8221; Mattis to stay put.<\/p>\n<p>He is one of the rare grownups hired by Trump.<\/p>\n<p>For that matter, I think I&#8217;ll offer the same request to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. He&#8217;s another adult in the room. He managed to cobble together that summit with Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Pompeo doesn&#8217;t deserve brickbats for the result of that Trump-Kim fiasco.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still expecting White House chief of staff John Kelly to go; then again, he&#8217;s been on the bubble anyhow. The charade that Trump put on with Putin in Helsinki well might hasten his departure. I also wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to know that U.S. ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman will hit the road.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, too, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, whose assessment of Russian meddling was challenged directly by Trump on Monday, might see fit to quit. Coats has acquitted himself well, too.<\/p>\n<p>However, my favorite Trump Cabinet appointee remains the guy with the &#8220;Mad Dog&#8221; nickname.<\/p>\n<p>Stay put, Secretary Mattis. We need you now &#8230; more than ever!<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the president of the United States tries to clean up the wreckage of that hideous meeting with Vladimir Putin and the press availability the two of them had, I have a request to make of some key members of the president&#8217;s Cabinet. I still expect to see some members of the administration team to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31076\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t go anywhere, Mad Dog &#8230; please!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1312,1424,6705,7884,6851,4398,5125],"class_list":["post-31076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-defense-department","tag-donald-trump","tag-james-mattis","tag-kimg-jong-un","tag-mike-pompeo","tag-state-department","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31078,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31076\/revisions\/31078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}