{"id":242984,"date":"2010-01-28T16:19:36","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=75116"},"modified":"2010-01-28T16:19:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:19:36","slug":"%e2%80%98don%e2%80%99t-ask-don%e2%80%99t-tell%e2%80%99-showdown-tuesday-feb-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/242984","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Don\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell\u2019 Showdown: Tuesday, Feb. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Gates vs. John McCain! Decency vs. bigotry! National security vs. &#8230; well, bigotry!<\/p>\n<p>The Senate Armed Services Committee was probably <em>always<\/em> going to get into discussing President Obama&#8217;s call to get rid of &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; during its Tuesday hearing with the defense secretary about next year&#8217;s proposed defense budget. But just now the committee officially added the subject to its calendar. A shame that <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/75020\/sestak-vs-mccain-on-dont-ask-dont-tell\">Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.)<\/a> can&#8217;t attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Gates vs. John McCain! Decency vs. bigotry! National security vs. &#8230; well, bigotry! The Senate Armed Services Committee was probably always going to get into discussing President Obama&#8217;s call to get rid of &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; during its Tuesday hearing with the defense secretary about next year&#8217;s proposed defense budget. But just now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}