{"id":7227,"date":"2014-11-25T16:19:57","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T16:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7227"},"modified":"2014-11-25T16:19:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T16:19:57","slug":"lieberman-for-defense-chief-fat-chance-ted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7227","title":{"rendered":"Lieberman for defense chief? Fat chance, Ted"},"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>Leave it to U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz to provide a laugh amid a serious discussion about national defense policy.<\/p>\n<p>The freshman Republican from Texas thinks former Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., would make a wonderful choice to become the next secretary of defense, replacing Chuck Hagel, who announced his (forced?) resignation Monday.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama might make his pick later today, so I have to get this thought out quickly.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blog.mysanantonio.com\/texas-politics\/2014\/11\/cruz-proposes-lieberman-to-replace-hagel-at-pentagon\/<\/p>\n<p>Lieberman might make a good choice except for one little thing.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, Lieberman &#8212; who campaigned as Al Gore&#8217;s vice-presidential\u00a0running mate\u00a0on the 2000 Democratic ticket &#8212; bolted from the party in 2008 when he backed Sen. John McCain for president against, yes, Sen. Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>I guess Lieberman is still a Democrat, but I hardly think the president would select someone who&#8217;s on record as backing one of the president&#8217;s most vocal foreign-policy critics to lead the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p>Does a president of either party deserve to have folks loyal to him and his policies? Would a President Cruz &#8212; perish the thought!) &#8212; demand loyalty were <em>he<\/em> to sit in the Oval Office? &#8220;Yes&#8221; to the first question. &#8220;You bet he would&#8221;\u00a0to the second question.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ll creep just a tiny bit out on the limb here and predict that Barack Obama will ignore Ted Cruz&#8217;s advice and go with someone with whom he feels most comfortable in helping shape American defense policy in this difficult and trying time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>Leave it to U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz to provide a laugh amid a serious discussion about national defense policy. The freshman Republican from Texas thinks former Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., would make a wonderful choice to become the next secretary of defense, replacing Chuck Hagel, who announced his (forced?) resignation Monday. President Obama might make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7227\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lieberman for defense chief? Fat chance, Ted<\/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":[12,13,14],"tags":[217,540,983,1312,2512,3544,4537],"class_list":["post-7227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-al-gore","tag-barack-obama","tag-chuck-hagel","tag-defense-department","tag-joe-lieberman","tag-pentagon","tag-ted-cruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227","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=7227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}