{"id":23426,"date":"2016-12-07T17:11:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T23:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=23426"},"modified":"2016-12-07T17:11:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T23:11:12","slug":"republicans-are-weakening-the-civilian-led-us-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/07\/republicans-are-weakening-the-civilian-led-us-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans are weakening the &#8220;civilian led&#8221; US military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republicans don&#8217;t care at all bout the law, the Constitution, freedom, security, or the people of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>One way we ensure civilian control of the military is by restricting military associated individuals from being secretary of defense. It is not like it can&#8217;t happen, but there has to be a waiting period.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s current pick for this position is too fresh out of the military to legally take this roll.<\/p>\n<p>So, the Republicans are changing the rules. Just for their own guy, though. Just for Trump&#8217;s appointment.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src='http:\/\/player.theplatform.com\/p\/7wvmTC\/MSNBCEmbeddedOffSite?guid=n_maddow_cb1waiver_161206' height='500' width='635' scrolling='no' border='no' ><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Roll over, Republicans. Sit. Heel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republicans don&#8217;t care at all bout the law, the Constitution, freedom, security, or the people of the United States. One way we ensure civilian control of the military is by restricting military associated individuals from being secretary of defense. It is not like it can&#8217;t happen, but there has to be a waiting period. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/07\/republicans-are-weakening-the-civilian-led-us-military\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Republicans are weakening the &#8220;civilian led&#8221; US military<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-65Q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}