{"id":4957,"date":"2010-06-02T14:49:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T19:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=4957"},"modified":"2010-06-02T14:49:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T19:49:55","slug":"another-obama-disaster-cont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/another-obama-disaster-cont\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Obama Disaster, cont."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>President Obama&#8217;s effort to repeal . . . &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; . . . has foisted upon his allies on Capitol Hill yet another, potentially crushing political liability.  Already-skittish Democrats who want to continue to represent districts that respect the military, and what it does for all of us, simply can no longer afford to follow Mr. Obama&#8217;s lead.  Hence, the stage is set for the President to be repudiated. . . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org\/p18321.xml\"><strong>&#8212; Frank Gaffney, March 1<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The debate over gays in the military has driven an extraordinary public wedge between the nation&#8217;s highest-ranking military officer and the four service chiefs who collectively make up the Joint Chiefs of Staff. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2010\/jun\/1\/military-chiefs-split-with-mullen-on-gays\/?page=1\"><strong>&#8212; Washington Times, June 1<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama&#8217;s effort to repeal . . . &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; . . . has foisted upon his allies on Capitol Hill yet another, potentially crushing political liability. Already-skittish Democrats who want to continue to represent districts that respect the military, and what it does for all of us, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Another Obama Disaster, cont. - Politickles","description":"President Obama's effort to repeal . . . \"Don't Ask, Don't Tell\" . . . has foisted upon his allies on Capitol Hill yet another, potentially crushing political l"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2293,2294,2411,2295,12],"class_list":["post-4957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dont-ask-dont-tell","tag-gays-in-the-military","tag-homosexual-agenda","tag-homosexuals-in-the-military","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}