{"id":28813,"date":"2012-02-20T12:30:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T16:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28813"},"modified":"2012-02-20T12:30:45","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T16:30:45","slug":"tar-and-feathers-with-id-thought-of-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28813","title":{"rendered":"Tar and Feathers. Wish I’d Thought of That."},"content":{"rendered":"

Rurik sends a link: Tar and Feathers for Ray Mabus<\/a><\/p>\n

Jed Babbin\u00a0served as a deputy undersecretary of defense in the George H.W. Bush administration so he has a very<\/strong> useful perspective.<\/p>\n

Back in the Reagan days, the phrase “personnel is policy” revealed an insight on how Washington works. Any administration is more likely to succeed if it hires the best people who are ideologically oriented to its goals. If your agenda is radically-liberal, as Obama’s is, you would choose someone like Ray Mabus, a former Mississippi governor, to be your Navy secretary.<\/p>\n

Navy Secretary Mabus, like Obama, believes that our armed services are political tools, playthings to be splashed about like toys in a toddler’s bathtub. Yes, they are all too willing to bask in the glories of DEVGRU (aka, SEAL Team 6), but the credit for those achievements is JFK’s, not theirs.<\/p>\n

Under Mabus and Obama, our Navy has shrunk to World War I levels, women are serving on submarines and we are spending untold millions or billions on “greening” the navy. The Marine Corps is about to be cut massively and the navy’s shipbuilding program is being delayed, resulting in a force that may be over-stressed or even incapable of doing its job in the next crisis.<\/p>\n

Right now we have more admirals than ships. The fleet stands at about 285 ships, down from the Cold War level of nearly 600. We have about 336 admirals. And some of them are interesting picks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Babbin continues in some detail so take a minute to read it. There’s little new for most TAH readers, but he does a fine job putting it all together.<\/p>\n

And a reminder of \u00a0one thing we can do short of tar and feathers…<\/p>\n

No Murtha Ship!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rurik sends a link: Tar and Feathers for Ray Mabus Jed Babbin\u00a0served as a deputy undersecretary … Tar and Feathers. Wish I’d Thought of That.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}