{"id":16871,"date":"2013-01-07T12:16:45","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T17:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16871"},"modified":"2013-01-07T12:16:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T17:16:45","slug":"sizing-up-the-hagel-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16871\/sizing-up-the-hagel-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Sizing Up the Hagel Nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nebraska Republican Senator Chuck Hagel is poised to be nominated as the next Defense Secretary.\u00a0 Politico&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/01\/chuck-hagel-5-groups-that-could-hamper-the-president-obamas-defense-secretary-pick-85820.html\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Gerstein<\/a> has an interesting round-up of the five constituencies most likely to oppose Hagel, but I want to see how President Barack Obama&#8217;s pick articulates his position on military spending cuts.<\/p>\n<p>After the fiscal cliff mess, Republicans are aiming to reform entitlements, while Democrats would prefer to ax the Pentagon.\u00a0 If Hagel can give a reasoned defense for eliminating some unnecessary programs &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/45-foreign-policy\/1692-chuck-hagel-as-defense-secretary-the-best-conservatives-can-hope-for\" target=\"_blank\">such as<\/a> projects that serve to stimulate local economic development rather than national security &#8211; then a way could be opened for responsible spending reductions over a wider array of budget areas.\u00a0 Unlike the automatic spending sequester scheduled to reappear at the end of February, a Hagelian contribution like the one I&#8217;m imagining could go a long way to getting on the table real cuts that the broader public can accept.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see if Hagel makes good on the opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nebraska Republican Senator Chuck Hagel is poised to be nominated as the next Defense Secretary.\u00a0 Politico&#8217;s Josh Gerstein has an interesting round-up of the five constituencies most likely to oppose Hagel, but I want to see how President Barack Obama&#8217;s pick articulates his position on military spending cuts. After the fiscal cliff mess, Republicans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,1760,2441,2526,1447,61],"class_list":["post-16871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-budget","tag-chuck-hagel","tag-cuts","tag-defense","tag-reform","tag-spending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16871"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16878,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16871\/revisions\/16878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}