{"id":56791,"date":"2014-12-02T12:01:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T17:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56791"},"modified":"2014-12-02T12:01:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T17:01:05","slug":"so-that-leaves-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56791","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;so that leaves Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/obama-weighs-slimmed-down-list-pentagon-chief-080551046--politics.html\">Associated Press<\/a> and Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, the White House is planning to nominate Ashton Carter to the position of the Secretary of Defense, seein&#8217;s how he&#8217;s the only one who will take the job;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Carter, 60, moved to the top of the White House&#8217;s short list after several leading contenders pulled their names from consideration. Carter is well-respected both in the West Wing and at the Pentagon, where he served until last year. He also has support among Republicans \u2014 of great importance given that Republicans will take the majority next month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, the support that he has from Republicans doesn&#8217;t make me feel any better about his nomination. Many Republicans have embraced sequestration\/Pentagon personnel cuts harder than many Democrats. At this point, I&#8217;d be skeptical of anyone Obama would nominate who isn&#8217;t me. No, I don&#8217;t trust any of youse guys either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Associated Press and Senator Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, the White House is planning &hellip; <a title=\"&#8230;so that leaves Carter\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56791\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8230;so that leaves Carter<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56791","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=56791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}