{"id":32142,"date":"2012-09-25T19:07:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T23:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32142"},"modified":"2012-09-25T19:07:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T23:07:14","slug":"senators-call-for-obama-to-return-to-dc-and-talk-defense-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32142","title":{"rendered":"Senators call for Obama to return to DC and talk defense cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three Republican Senators, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and John McCain of Arizona called for President Obama to return to Washington and join the discussion of the impending defense and national security cuts, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2012\/sep\/25\/gop-senators-berate-obama-looming-defense-cuts\/\">Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe understand there\u2019s an election going on, but the defense of our nation and the security of our country can\u2019t wait for an election,\u201d said Mrs. Ayotte. \u201cWe are willing to go to Washington now to resolve this, and I would hope that he would lead an effort now to resolve this, because it\u2019s too important. It\u2019s not about either party, it\u2019s about making sure that our country is safe.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe president of the United States was able to go on \u2018The View,\u2019 but he couldn\u2019t meet with various world leaders today,\u201d Mr. McCain said. \u201cThe president of the United States was in Las Vegas and also here in Colorado, and he was unable to find time in his schedule to meet with our closest ally in the Middle East, the prime minister of Israel.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m pretty sure the President doesn&#8217;t need to be there to express his thoughts on the defense cuts. He&#8217;s been pretty clear on the fact that he wants defense on the cheap, whether it works or not. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Republican Senators, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and John McCain &hellip; <a title=\"Senators call for Obama to return to DC and talk defense cuts\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32142\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Senators call for Obama to return to DC and talk defense cuts<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,46,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2012-election","category-barack-obama","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32142","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}