{"id":34327,"date":"2013-02-26T18:36:26","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T22:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34327"},"modified":"2013-02-26T18:36:26","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T22:36:26","slug":"senate-confirms-hagel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34327","title":{"rendered":"Senate confirms Hagel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, who is surprised that Chuck Hagel was confirmed by the Senate for Secretary of Defense a few minutes ago? The Republicans make a lot of noise and then collapse every time. That&#8217;s why we can&#8217;t have nice things. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/senate-confirms-hagel-for-defense-secretary-1.209768\">Associated Press<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> The vote Tuesday was 58-41, with four Republicans joining Democrats in backing President Barack Obama&#8217;s nominee.<\/p>\n<p>The vote ended a contentious fight over the president&#8217;s choice for his second-term national security team.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans opposed the former two-term Republican senator from Nebraska, casting him as out of the mainstream and overly critical of Israel. But Democrats stood together for Hagel, a twice-wounded Vietnam combat veteran.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, I guess a bunch of VoteVets guys will be headed to Defense like when their guy Shinseki went to Veterans&#8217; Affairs. I wonder if Hagel still thinks that the surge in Iraq was the biggest military blunder in American history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, who is surprised that Chuck Hagel was confirmed by the Senate for Secretary of Defense &hellip; <a title=\"Senate confirms Hagel\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34327\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Senate confirms Hagel<\/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":[83,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34327","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=34327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}