Posted on 01/18/2016 10:03:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
WASHINGTON -- Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) finally set a confirmation hearing for Eric Fanning, who President Barack Obama nominated months ago to be the secretary of the Army.
Fanning will appear before the Senate Armed Services Committee, which McCain chairs, on Thursday. If confirmed by the full Senate, he will make history as the first openly gay person to fill the post.
Fanning has served in a number of senior positions at the Defense Department, and he had been filling in as acting Army secretary since he was nominated in September. But last week, the Pentagon announced Fanning was pulling out of that role and taking a different position until his Senate confirmation. It was all rather mysterious, until McCain indicated he and others on the committee had concerns Fanning would be violating federal law if he kept serving as acting secretary while waiting for his confirmation vote....
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
Fanning is so excited about being the new secretary that he’s bought new nylons.
Morale must be so high in the military. I would never let my son enlist.
That would make it impossible for anybody who reported sexual harassment to get justice...or even be heard. Obama’s goal is to destroy the military from within by making it weak, causing it to be absorbed in sexual deviancy rather than its real purpose. For McCain to add his weight to this shows that McCain is not a decent man.
That’s a fitting post for most everything the Dems do regarding the military.
Good stuff, study on brotha.
Prediction: He will be confirmed and the gay question will not come up in the debate.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.