{"id":193781,"date":"2008-11-18T00:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T05:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/18\/i-believe-that-this-is-called-insubordination\/"},"modified":"2008-11-18T00:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T05:18:00","slug":"i-believe-that-this-is-called-insubordination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/18\/i-believe-that-this-is-called-insubordination\/","title":{"rendered":"I Believe That This is Called Insubordination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we now have this report that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/story.php?i=3823105&amp;c=FEA&amp;s=COM\">the Pentagon is doing its level best to subvert the decision making capabilities of the incoming administration<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The uniformed services are trying to lock in the next administration by creating a political cost for holding the line on defense spending. Conservative groups are hoping to ramp up defense spending as a tool to limit options for a Democratic Congress and president to pass new, and potentially costly, social programs, including health care reform.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While it <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">is<\/span> the right of conservatives to weigh in on the defense budget, the actions of the, &#8220;Uniformed Services&#8221; appears to be a direct challenge to the idea of civilian control of the military.<\/p>\n<p>Douglas MacArthur was fired for simply saying in a letter to a Congressman that he disagreed with the President&#8217;s policy, and these folks are trying to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">gaslight<\/span> Obama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, we now have this report that the Pentagon is doing its level best to subvert the decision making capabilities of the incoming administration: The uniformed services are trying to lock in the next administration by creating a political cost for holding the line on defense spending. Conservative groups are hoping to ramp up defense &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,1010,970,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-bureaucracy","category-corruption","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}