{"id":950,"date":"2009-08-06T07:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T11:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/08\/06\/conservatives-question-mchughs-pro-life-cred\/"},"modified":"2009-08-06T07:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T11:31:00","slug":"conservatives-question-mchughs-pro-life-cred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/08\/06\/conservatives-question-mchughs-pro-life-cred\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives question McHugh&#8217;s pro-life cred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. John McHugh is nearing the finish line in the confirmation process to serve as President Obama&#8217;s Army Secretary.<\/p>\n<p>The widely-respected Republican moderate will be one of a handful of GOP-crossovers serving in the Democratic Administration.<\/p>\n<p>Critics on the right are questioning whether his new allegiance to Team Obama has softened his principles.<\/p>\n<p>This is from the widely read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/weblogs\/TWSFP\/2009\/08\/but_for_wales_1.asp\">Weekly Standard<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From 1997 to June of 2009, Rep. John McHugh (R-NY), had a near perfect pro-life <a href=\"http:\/\/nrlc.www.capwiz.com\/nrlc\/bio\/id\/429\" target=\"_blank\">voting record<\/a>. But since June he\u2019s gone 0 for 3 on pro-life votes. Why the change of heart? McHugh\u2019s press secretary won\u2019t say. But the likely reason is obvious: On June 2, 2009 President Obama nominated McHugh to serve as his Secretary of the Army. The Senate is expected to vote on his nomination today or tomorrow, according to McHugh&#8217;s press secretary and Hill staffers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>McHugh is likely to be on the front lines for some contentious culture war debates over the next few years:  from women serving in combat roles to the availability of abortion services on overseas military bases to gays in the military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. John McHugh is nearing the finish line in the confirmation process to serve as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}