{"id":7340,"date":"2014-12-05T11:47:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T11:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7340"},"modified":"2014-12-05T11:47:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T11:47:22","slug":"easy-confirmation-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7340","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Easy&#039; confirmation ahead?"},"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>When a Republican curmudgeon like Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma says he would vote for a Democratic nominee for defense secretary, then you might expect the next nominee to have a relatively clear path toward confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>Today, President Obama is going to nominate former deputy defense secretary Ashton Carter to run the Pentagon; he would replace outgoing Secretary Chuck Hagel. He&#8217;s been highly decorated and has been confirmed already by the Senate for his\u00a0one-time post.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/12\/05\/politics\/obama-ash-carter-defense-secretary\/index.html<\/p>\n<p>Carter is a well-known expert on weapons and their procurement. He knows the ropes inside the world&#8217;s largest office building and it appears he&#8217;s got support from at least one Republican senator who&#8217;ll get a chance to vote on his confirmation. Will there be more?<\/p>\n<p>GOP lawmakers have been making a lot of noise lately about blocking Obama appointments as payback for his executive action on immigration. They&#8217;ve been careful to exclude national security posts from that petulant game.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s hope they&#8217;re faithful to their pledge.<\/p>\n<p>If there was a federal agency that needs leadership and cohesion in this troubled time, one would expect it to the be the Department of Defense.<\/p>\n<p>Do not dilly-dally on this one, senators.<\/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>When a Republican curmudgeon like Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma says he would vote for a Democratic nominee for defense secretary, then you might expect the next nominee to have a relatively clear path toward confirmation. Today, President Obama is going to nominate former deputy defense secretary Ashton Carter to run the Pentagon; he would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7340\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#039;Easy&#039; confirmation ahead?<\/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],"tags":[483,540,983,1313,1315,2478,3544,5051],"class_list":["post-7340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","category-national-news","tag-ashton-carter","tag-barack-obama","tag-chuck-hagel","tag-defense-dept","tag-defense-secretary","tag-jim-inhofe","tag-pentagon","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7340","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=7340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}