{"id":17544,"date":"2023-07-13T03:00:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T07:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libertycampfire.com\/?p=17544"},"modified":"2023-07-13T01:47:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T05:47:55","slug":"marines-without-a-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libertycampfire.com\/2023\/07\/13\/marines-without-a-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Marines Without a Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Monday the woke press went on another freakout because (pick your own story) the \u201cMarines are without a Senate-confirmed leader for first time since 1859 after GOP senator blocks nominee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oh horrors!\u00a0 Marines without a Senate-confirmed leader or is that Senate-conformed leader?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is there no one at the top within the Marines command structure?\u00a0 Hardly.\u00a0 They have an acting commandant, General Eric Smith.\u00a0 General Berger, the former commandant ended his four year term on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Has General Smith never been confirmed by the Senate?\u00a0 Hardly.\u00a0 Smith was confirmed by the Senate when he got his fourth star, as well as stars one, two and three. He was confirmed by the Senate in July 2021 as Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, what is the problem?\u00a0 As acting commandant is he restricted from leading the Corps?\u00a0 Of course, not.\u00a0 Are the Marines so woke that an acting commandant will weaken their ability to do their jobs?\u00a0 Let\u2019s hope not.\u00a0 If so, the country has a much bigger problem than an acting commandant for the Marine Corps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What\u2019s holding up the approval?\u00a0 Senator Tommy Tuberville has placed a block on all Pentagon nominees.\u00a0Why?\u00a0 The Hill said, \u201cTuberville is protesting the Pentagon\u2019s abortion policy because it provides paid leave and reimbursement costs for travel for servicemembers who cross state lines to get an abortion. The senator says it violates the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal funds from paying for abortions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The policy was changed this spring.\u00a0 However, there was no change to the law.\u00a0 Tuberville\u2019s position is that this policy must be formalized in law or dropped.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This makes a lot of sense.\u00a0 So why not change the law? If abortion for women soldiers and military wives is so important, then change the law.\u00a0 The problem is that removing the Hyde Amendment is a non-starter.\u00a0 There is little possibility to end a filibuster on such legislation if it could even get to the Senate.\u00a0 The political dynamics in the House do not favor such legislation either.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This change to Pentagon policy is an end run around the Supreme Court decision returning abortion decisions to the states.\u00a0 This is just another example of the Biden administration ignoring the laws because they don\u2019t like them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thank you, Senator Tuberville, for standing up for the rule of law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday the woke press went on another freakout because (pick your own story) the \u201cMarines are without a Senate-confirmed leader for first time since 1859 after GOP senator blocks nominee.\u201d Oh horrors!\u00a0 Marines without a Senate-confirmed leader or is that Senate-conformed leader?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1628,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39,26,17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-congress","category-courage","category-supreme-court"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa98x1-4yY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libertycampfire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libertycampfire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libertycampfire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libertycampfire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1628"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libertycampfire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libertycampfire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17545,"href":"https:\/\/libertycampfire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17544\/revisions\/17545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libertycampfire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libertycampfire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libertycampfire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}