{"id":371,"date":"2007-07-21T04:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=371"},"modified":"2007-07-21T04:44:57","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T10:44:57","slug":"the-plunge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"The Plunge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You think I was a Commie Fag Junkie before?  Well, hold on to your hats because I&#8217;m with Hillary on <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20070719\/D8QFUN500.html\">the withdrawal business<\/a>. It&#8217;s perfectly reasonable for a United State Senator and Presidential front-runner to ask about withdrawal plans. And it is absolutely deplorable for an Undersecretary of Defense to chide her like a child. And absolutely predictable given the way this President is determined to politicize the entire engine of government.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I know. The Right hates Hillary so anything bad is justified.  Wrong.  They know damned well that if President Clinton&#8217;s pentagon had done this to a GOP senator asking about Kosovo, they would have gone crazy.<\/p>\n<p>I realize this is becoming too fine a distrinction for the mindless anti-Democrats who are Bush&#8217;s only remaining supporters. But the Undersecretary of Defense is <em>not<\/em> a political office. They are <em>not<\/em> in the business of supporting the President&#8217;s decisions and defending his actions. They are not supposed to be &#8220;on message&#8221;. Their job is carrying out his orders and leave the politics out of it. And if Hillary becomes President, their job will be to carry out her orders.<\/p>\n<p>This is getting ridiculous<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You think I was a Commie Fag Junkie before? Well, hold on to your hats because I&#8217;m with Hillary on the withdrawal business. It&#8217;s perfectly reasonable for a United State Senator and Presidential front-runner to ask about withdrawal plans. And it is absolutely deplorable for an Undersecretary of Defense to chide her like a child. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=371\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Plunge<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-5Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}