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Subscribe to RSSUpdated at 5:53 p.m. ET – Former Sen. Chuck Hagel, President Barack Obama’s choice to be secretary of defense, finished a day-long marathon confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday, enduring nearly eight hours of testy and skeptical questions from Republicans.
At the start of Thursday’s hearing, it seemed nearly certain that the Senate would vote to confirm Hagel. But the nominee labored at certain points during the day to clarify and explain his comments. Whether his occasional stumbles were serious enough to jeopardize his confirmation was not clear by the end of the testimony.
There are 55 senators in the Democratic caucus and 45 Senate Republicans, so if there’s no filibuster, Hagel would seem assured of confirmation. The last time the Senate rejected a Cabinet nominee was in 1989 when there was a Republican president and a Democratic-controlled Senate.
Republican senators confronted Hagel with quotations from statements he had made months or years ago – and sometimes he apologized for them or amended them.
Late in the day Sen. Mike Lee, R- Utah, asked Hagel whether he’d said in 2003 that Israel keeps Palestinians “caged up like animals” and whether he still believes that.
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“Like many things I’ve said, I would like to go back and change the words and the meaning,” Hagel told Lee. “If I had a chance to go back and edit it, I would. I regret that I used those words.”
But he said he’d made his statement “in a larger context … (addressing) the frustration in what’s happening (in Israel) which is not in Israel’s interest” and mentioned the need “to find ways that we can help bring peace and security to Israel.”
Quizzed by both Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Sen. David Vitter, R- La., on a statement he’d made calling the Iranian government a “legitimate” one, Hagel said, “I should have said ‘recognized’ instead of ‘legitimate.’”
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., grills Secretary of Defense nominee Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., on his opposition to the 2007 troop surge in Iraq.
At one point he told Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R- Ga., regarding U.S. policy toward Iran’s efforts to build nuclear weapons: “I’ve just been handed a note that I misspoke and said I supported the president’s position on ‘containment.’ If I said that, I meant to say that obviously – his position on containment – we don’t have a position on containment.”
Hagel then said, “I’ve had more attention paid to my words in the last eight weeks than I ever thought possible.”
This prompted Armed Services Committee chairman Sen. Carl Levin, D- Mich., to intervene, “Just to make sure your correction is clear, we do have a position on containment – which is we do not favor containment.” Hagel quickly concurred with Levin’s statement.
Hagel told the panel in his opening remarks that he is “fully committed to the president's goal of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon,” and that “all options must be on the table to achieve that goal. My policy is one of prevention, and not one of containment and the President has made clear that is the policy of our government.”
At another point, Hagel, explaining his criticism quoted in a 2008 book by Aaron David Miller, of “the Jewish lobby” and his allegation that “it intimidates a lot of people” in Congress – comments for which Hagel has apologized – said he ought to not have used the word “intimidates.”
“I should have used ‘influence,’” he said.
Later, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R- S.C., challenged Hagel to “name one dumb thing we’ve been goaded into doing” by the pro-Israel lobby or to identify one member of Congress whom the pro-Israel lobby had intimidated. Hagel said, “I didn't have in mind a single person," and did not identify any policy the U.S. government had been goaded into.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, played Hagel a recording of an interview Hagel did in 2009 with an al Jazeera program. A listener submitted a question asking about “the image of the United States is that of the world’s bully” and whether the United States needed “to change the perception and the reality” before asking other nations to reduce their arsenals. In that 2009 program Hagel began his reply by saying, “Her observation is a good one … .”
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When Cruz asked Hagel to explain this reply, he said Thursday, “I think my comment was it was a relevant and good observation. I don’t think I said that I agree with it.”
Early in the testimony, the Iraq war and President George W. Bush’s 2007 surge of U.S. troops into Iraq became the heated focus of the hearing.
Sen. John McCain, R- Ariz., repeatedly pressed Hagel, a fellow Vietnam War veteran, on whether he had been right or wrong to say that the 2007 surge was “the most dangerous foreign policy blunder since Vietnam.”
When McCain angrily said “Will you please answer the question?” Hagel told McCain “I’m not going to give you a yes or no answer … I’ll defer that judgment to history.”
When McCain shot back that Hagel had been wrong about the surge, Hagel said his “most dangerous blunder” comment had been “not just about the 2007 surge but the overall war of choice going into Iraq” in 2003.
As a senator, Hagel voted for the congressional resolution authorizing Bush to invade Iraq, but later turned critical of Bush’s conduct of the operation.
Other Republicans on the committee repeatedly pressed Hagel on his support for endorsement of Global Zero, the movement calling for abolition of nuclear weapons by 2030.
Hagel served on the Global Zero U.S. Nuclear Policy Commission which issued a report last May calling for an 80 percent reduction in the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
Hagel told ranking Republican committee member Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma that his position “has never been unilateral disarmament.”
Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
Former Senator Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination to be Defense Secretary, on Capitol Hill, Jan. 31, 2013.
And he said the Global Zero report was discussing “illustrative possibilities” and “scenarios” and wasn’t urging specific policies.
But last May’s Global Zero report, which Hagel signed on to, says that a drastically smaller U.S. arsenal could be negotiated bilaterally with Russia – “or implemented unilaterally.”
In his opening statement Hagel pledged that he would maintain an effective nuclear arsenal. “America's nuclear deterrent over the last 65 years has played a central role in ensuring global security and the avoidance of a World War III. I am committed to modernizing our nuclear arsenal,” he said.
Hagel, who was seriously wounded while serving as an Army infantryman in Vietnam, was a Republican senator from Nebraska from 1997 to 2009 but did not support Republican presidential candidates McCain in 2008 or Mitt Romney last year.
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I watched the video with McCain's obnoxious behavior. Long ago I felt that McCain, Lieberman and Graham are a threat to our national security and MCCain's video confirms it. All three should be shipped to Israel without a pension for the damage done to our country.
Cut the BS the republicans have sold out to the god obammi because most are cowards 'closet progressives"! I will work to remove the majority of republicans in the Senate and the House, they are TRAITORS TO CONSERVATISM"!
Cool, nothing could be better than schisms in the right wing faction.
This Chuckie fellow, seems like a liberal/anti-semitic kinda guy to me.
On a different note, the headline " US incomes post big gain", is very misleading in nature. More than a truckload of B.S.....
Bean,
Thanks for your opinion. You seem like a uneducated bigot "beaner". Your name alone tells that story.
Any time vippie, was it the use of the term "liberal", that struck a nerve? Yawn, ZZZZZZzzzzzzZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz...
This is just another smoke screen to cover up for Bush and all of the people that helped him start his phony war, with forged documents, saying Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, when Iraq, was only looking for the stuff to make the weapons. Obama, should form a war tribunal to prosecute all of the ones involved in starting the war, and put all of them in prison where the should have been put, long ago.
@ super---- you ignorant bas--rd, I hate bush too, but obammi is destroying your nation totally and you're still whining about bushs cr-p! islamobama must be removed by whatever method possible, he is a megalomaniac, dedicated to "global socialism" and the subjugation of ALL WHITE AMERICANS!
Of course he's blaming Bush....who the hell else do you blame? Since Obama took office, stocks have gone from 8,000 to almost 14,000. Did you think we were going to get out of 8 years of an admin using PCP in 4 years? He put us in two wars and destroyed the economy. Since your tax rate hasn't changed, are you calling Obama a socialist because he wants poor 5 year olds to have health coverage? What the alleged 'Socialist' is proposing on the tax rate is still lower than 3/4s of the history of the century long progressive tax system. If Obama is a socialist, that must mean Eisenhower was a commy. You're probably one of those guys hoping the US economy doesn't recover....just so you can say see, I told ya so. The subjugation of all white Americans? Does that mean when you put on your white hood, you'll send a half hood to Obama since he is half white. Ignorant? I looked it up, your photo is there.
Let's face it Obama picked Hagel to be his Secretary of Defense to cut the Defense Budget and use that savings for his social agenda. Hagel will just rubber stamp all of Obama's proposals for the Pentagon.
Btw where were all of the former military leaders who support Hagel at the hearings today?? Nunn was in the Coast Guard and Warner did serve in the Navy and Marines over 60 years ago and he came just to be seen in front of a TV camera and talk about himself and his long career in the senate.
Hagel will be confirmed as SecDef but I bet many of the military will not be impressed with him because basically he is NOT that competent or very capable IMHO
You mean a "Social agenda" like building roads, bridges and schools in this country....
Instead of destroying roads, bridges and schools in foreign countries?
Most Americans I know LOVE that social agenda.
Perhaps you aren't that kind of American.
common - It would have been nice if Obama actually did use the money to build bridges and roads, but he did not during the past four years despite his "shovel ready" promises of 2008. So I expect the savings from Pentagon will go to support "other" social spendings - as you will note by looking at surge in food stamp, extended unemployment, and other freebies.
No we mean subjugating zillions of welfare thieves so they ca be a uniform voting block for socialism, or shredding the US Constitution, like running for office in America when hes not a citizen, like usurping the US Constitution with illegal executive orders and falsifying "recess appointments, like robbing hard working Americans of the fruits of their labors to redistribute it to generational welfare "thieves", like attempting to disarm the WHITE POPULATION while leaving the black thugs in inner cities armed to the teeth! This "shoulda been janitor" is a militant progressive, and a maniacal racist and plans to disarm white Americans in order to administer his deranged punishment because his mother was "hot" for illiterate blacks! I can tell you the only segment of America that doesnt hate islamobama is the demented East Coast and commie california , and the LYING MSM!
Mccain is Isreal water boy!!! He puts the interest of Isreal over the interest of the American people. Mccain address the American people as if we all watch Fox News.
miss.. Maybe you SHOULD watch Fox News. They seem to be the ONLY media outlet that actually ASKS QUESTIONS that should be answered, and actually REPORTS the news, instead of the 60 Minutes love fest that was presented the other night. 60 Minutes used to be FEARED and actually respected for their tough journalism and tough questions. Now they're nothing but a group of Obama shoe lickers that don't want to "offend" Obama by actually asking tough questions.
As for your "Isreal water boy" comment (It's Israel by the way), exactly WHERE has McCain put the interests of Israel over America.....EVER????? You made the claim, back it up with some TRUTH and FACTS!
Oh wait, I forgot. Libs don't have to actually have truth or facts when they make their claims. It's the "truth" because they said it, right? And when the truth is actually reported that they don't like then they call them "lies" and continue their elitist hate toward anyone that doesn't agree with their dishonesty.
Cheryl,
Excuse me....hahahahaahaha....Ok...Maybe we should...hahahahaa....excuse me again....Watch Fox News for news reports?? Haha......sigh.
That fact that you equate Hannity, Beck (yes...he doesn't work there anymore), O'reily, and the stupid people in the morning to journalism is over the top funny.
Oh, and I should not that I don't watch Msnbc either. They (Fox and Msnbc) are both extremely biased. And for the record...Fox didn't ask the tough questions when Bush was in office. That should explain everything.
Fox news has more viewers than CNN, NBC and ABC combined. Research it.
fox news asks questions and you claim they tell the truth?
hahahhahahahahhahahahhaha
How about "Fair and Balanced"
Does anyone think they are fair and balanced?
NO, of course not, only a brain dead ass clown freak would claim that they are......O'Reilly doesn't even think that.
So fox news lies to you all day every day with that claim.
And people like cheryl stand up for an entertainment program that blatantly lies to them?
hhahahahahhahahahaha
Could you be a bigger sucker?
farideh,
And? That doesn't mean that Fox somehow tells the truth. Fox is great at appealing to the stupid. They are really good at that. They also know that sex sells by evidence of all the blonds that all seem to look alike on set. There business model has been terrific...speak down to the masses, tell them that you're fair and balanced, employ personalities...not credible minds....personalities, and sprinkle in good looking blonds to keep the men watching.
Is it true Senator McCain, that you have made some bad choices in your life? For instance..is it true that you lost a multi-million dollar jet through pilot error? Is it true another disaster almost occured when you were as self described "daredevil clowning"? Although another plane you piloted went down due to engine failure, is it true that a 4th jet was lost when you were shot down and became a hero for losing yet another jet? Is it true that at the Naval Academy, you were the 5th worst cadet? Is it true that you threw a Hail Mary pass by having the most uneducated self serving woman in the United States come on board as your running mate? Is it true she did not fulfill her term as governor so she could go on Fox News and make a lot of cash? Is it true in fact, that if you asked her to point out Turkey on a map, she'd lay her finger on Minnesota? Is it true that you lost to the first African American running for President? Is it true you were implicated in the Keating Five? Is it true that you were messing around on your first wife, while still married to your first? Is it true that the veins running down the sides of your neck are always 3 millimeters away from implosion?
Yeah, you're the master of good decisions.
The Bible teaches that all life is precious and sacred to God,to debate
whether the surge was effective in terms of the number of dead,doesn't teach
that all life is precious and sacred to God,but that certain life,that some
life,is precious and sacred to God,and man is not God that he can decide
that,which is the sin of pride,of Genesis 3:5,man as God knowing good and evil
as God-and so which is not of God,but is of the politicians and the Media.Are
the politicians saying the whole nation of Iran is a terrorist organization,that
would include the entire population there,and war would kill those people as
well,the innocent,including children,which would also not be of God.Even as
Mr.Wheeler said,get your priorities straight-life,which God Created,and so God
and life comes first.
McCain, for a while, was a national hero; now he is just one of the GOP obstructionists. His selection of Sarah Palin for the Vice Presidency disqualified him from having any say about anything. He lost his authority years ago. Someone out to tell him this.
John,
Haha....No doubt about it. Palin....hahah
Mccains selection of Sarah Palin was an obvious attempt to win over women voters and nothing more. It was both irresponsible and self serving and John Mccain should be eliminated from U.S. politics because of such irresponsible politics. Can u imagine at his age if Mccain became president and died? Who would be President?
I remember during the 2008 election I'd ask right wingers on these posts why they liked Sarah Palin....
I must have asked 100 times and the only responses I got.....
She's hot.
She likes God.
Doesn't take much to sell stuff to right wingers.
hahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahhah
Reading these liberal posts,makes it easy to understand how easy it is" to fool some of the people,all of the time".Question;why does FEMA need millions of rounds of ammunition,military armored vehicles,military trained and armed disaster relief workers?Oh,I guess they expect resistance from the ungratful people they are supposed to help.Remember,obama only said:"this is my last election"....He has no intention of stopping in 4 years,and hegal certainly fills a nitch(a yes boy).
Why do you continue to LIE?
If you asked ANY conservative about Palin in 2008, they would have answered that they liked Palin because she had actually been a LEADER of a State and not a washed up Senator or ignorant America hating community organizer. That she actually DEMANDED honesty. That she actually gave the right message for this nation.
It's people like you who put out the filth about "she's hot" and what you would like to do with her, and the number of filth filled posts from the left was beyond disgusting.
Oh and by the way, this discussion is about the appointment of another DISHONEST Obama shoe licker, not about the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate from over FOUR YEARS AGO genius.
Nonsense.
palin had zero qualifications to be VP. Zero then and zero now.
printmoney,
FEMA did NOT buy millions of rounds of ammo.
The Department of Homeland Security did. To save money for the various agencies under DHS by doing bulk buying. Departments like INS, Border Patrol, Coast guard, Secret Service, etc.
http://factcheck.org/2012/11/did-fema-create-a-youth-army/
FEMA employees are prohibited from being armed.
Cheryl,
Listen and listen closely.....Palin...isn't....smart enough. Not saying she is a stupid person but she clearly lacks even the minimum amount of intelligence needed to hold that high of office.
johnny,she had 2 years more leadership experience than your chairman,And a ton more common sense.
cheryl
How completely clueless are you?
As any conservative?
of course they will say that.
Ask any Disney employee and they'll tell you Mickey Mouse is the greatest cartoon character ever created.
The only thing any male voter can say about Palin is "she's hot" GOP or Dem.
Female either.
hahahhahahahahhahahahahhahahahhahahahah
I can't believe there are really people so ignorant and clueless that still defend the joke Palin was and is.
hank,where in the post,do you see the word buy? Incidentally fact check arms to hhs,and epa,I'm sure they need weapons to make patients take their medicine and to protect our "wetlands" fromgetting too wet.Yup they are prohibited,sort of like felons are prohibited,or that obama swore to uphold the constitution. As I said earlier;"you can fool some of the people all of the time"....Especially when they want to be fooled.
Ok, you've no proven that you have absolutely nothing to base your accusation that FEMA has millions of rounds of ammo on.
Thanks.
hank,I guess you have proven all my points.I didn't say buy,because as you pointed out, they were purchased for them.Read your own post.
You still haven't posted one iota of proof that HHS, EPA or FEMA are getting millions of rounds of ammo, other than your word.
You're full of crap.
I am curious to hear the questions about Iraq. Our invasion and presence there has been nothing but a mistake. We have not changed anything and wasted lives over a war that was supposed to last 90 days. If they were using gas against Iran at least it kept Iran off our back and on theirs. Hussein was orginall our guy and there was no evidence whatsoever that Iraq was involved in 9/11. Now that we have eliminated Iraq as a threat we can deal with Iran ourselves. Very thoughtful policy by our decision makers. I have noticed that the same people who wanted this war are the people who didn't want to pay for it- then and now.
I think all the war whores need some bibs, since they can't seem to stop foaming at the mouth like a pack of rabid dogs. They are so small that only war can give their lives any meaning, you know killing an dominating, a sick bunch.
Mike, Are you talking about the "war whores" like Obama that supported the war?
The Republicans ship sank when Romney lost..... With easy Iraq and Afghanistan war profiteering money diassapearing on their cronnie money grubbing corporate defense contractor party supporters...they are in a near F-ucking panic to get another bulls-hit war going with Iran.
Instead of making unsubstantiated hate filled claims, why don't you show the PROOF of what you're saying?
Oh wait, you can't.
But it's pretty easy for absolutely ANYONE to point out the over 20 BILLION taxpayer dollars that went to pay back the public employee and teachers unions. It's pretty easy to point out the 54 BILLION taxpayer dollars that went to pay back the UNIONS at GM and Chrysler. It's pretty easy to point out that 60% of GM was given to the UNIONS. It's pretty easy to point out the $7000 bonuses that the UNIONS at GM gave themselves while still OWING the taxpayers of this nation over 25 BILLION dollars. It's pretty easy to point out the exemptions to Obamacare given to the SEIU UNIONS.
As for Iran, it's YOUR Failure in Chief that says he's going to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb, and EVERYTHING is "on the table". Since the ONLY way that will prevent Iran from getting that nuclear bomb is some kind of MILITARY INTERVENTION, it'll be YOUR Failure in Chief and his moronic Secretary of Defense that puts into a war with Iran.
Once again cheryl
You post complete nonsense.
Party over country, that's you and the new radical right in this country.
Cheryls is the prototypical Fox misinformed agenda driven Yahoo.
Its sad
Cheryl,you misunderstood what obama said; it wasn't prevent iran from getting a bomb,it was PRESENT iran with a bomb.Please get your facts straight.
"As for Iran, it's YOUR Failure in Chief that says he's going to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb, and EVERYTHING is "on the table". Since the ONLY way that will prevent Iran from getting that nuclear bomb is some kind of MILITARY INTERVENTION, it'll be YOUR Failure in Chief and his moronic Secretary of Defense that puts into a war with Iran."
So basically you're saying that to prevent war with Iran we need to attack them.
Makes perfect sense,lol.
Failure to disclose involvement with electronic voting firm
For the first ten weeks of 1996, Hagel served as chairman of American Information Systems (AIS), a voting machine company which later changed its name to ES&S. He also had holdings in the firm's parent group, McCarthy Group Inc., worth between $1 and $5 million. [10] In November 1996, Hagel was elected to the Senate, the first Republican elected from Nebraska since 1974. He came from behind twice during his run (according to polls), first against well known Republican Attorney General Don Stenberg in the primary, and then against popular Democratic Gov. (and eventual senator) Ben Nelson. In fact, one Nebraska newspaper described his victory as a “stunning upset.” [11] In January 1997, the Washington Post called Hagel's victory, "the major Republican upset in the November election." [12] According to Bev Harris of Blackboxvoting.org, a group aimed at “consumer protection for elections,” Hagel won virtually every demographic group, including many largely African-American communities that had never before voted Republican. AIS was responsible for counting approximately 80% of the votes in the election. [13] [14] [15]
In a disclosure form filed in 1996, Hagel did not report that he was chairman of AIS during 1996 or go into detail regarding the company’s underlying assets. Rather, he cited his holdings as an “excepted investment fund,” which is exempt from detailed disclosure rules. [16] [17] [18]
On May 23, 1997, Victor Baird, then serving as director of the Senate Ethics Committee, sent a letter to Hagel requesting “additional, clarifying information” for the personal financial disclosure report Hagel filed. In 2002, the issue surfaced again as Charlie Matulka, Hagel’s opponent for reelection, wrote to Baird requesting an investigation into Hagel’s ownership in and nondisclosure of ES&S (the information remained undisclosed as of 2002). Baird replied that Matulka's complaint lacked merit and dismissed the matter. [19] [20] [21]
Under the ethics panel’s regulations at the time, an “excepted investment fund” was one that was “publicly traded (or available) or widely diversified.” The committee had defined a “publicly available” stock or investment as one that could be purchased on a public market or for which information was publicly available. This type of information, some contended, would typically be found in reference outlets such as Moody’s Financial Services Information, Standard & Poor’s register, or Barron’s The Dow Jones and Financial Weekly. A 2003 search of all three by The Hill, however, revealed no references to McCarthy. In addition, a comprehensive report ordered by The Hill from Dun & Bradstreet, a leading financial information firm, indicated that McCarthy's financial information was not publicly available. Michael McCarthy, chairman of the McCarthy Group and Hagel’s campaign treasurer, acknowledged that the company was not publicly traded or widely diversified, but claimed that it was publicly available nonetheless. [22] [23] [24]
On January 25th and 27th of 2003, Baird met with Hagel's office. Later on the 27th, he abruptly resigned his post, ending a sixteen year stint with the committee. Later that day, Baird’s replacement, Robert Walker, changed the committee's definition of “excepted investment fund.” Under the revised definition, the committee would have the ability to decide, based on the specific facts of each case, whether an investment had been made in a publicly available firm. Many argued that the new definition made it virtually impossible to determine whether Hagel, or any other legislator, must report investments in non-traded private companies. [25] [26] [27]
Soon after the change, Lou Ann Linehan, Hagel’s chief of staff, denied that Hagel had ever failed to meet the Senate Ethics Committee’s reporting requirements in his annual financial disclosure forms. She claimed that she was sure that at least one investment advisor and broker confirmed that McCarthy Group Inc. was publicly available. She was unable, however, to offer the name of any investment broker or advisor who consulted with Hagel or his staff on the matter. [28][29] [30]
Cheryl - We signed a treaty with the Filipino people in 1899 after the Spanish-American War and free'd them from the Spanish which they signed allowing us to have a base in Subic Bay. Has nothing to do with Colonialism on our part. The Spanish were the bad guys. Not us. We never Colonized the Phillipines.
Senator McCain is RIGHT! We need to invade Syria TODAY! And Iran tomorrow! We will be greeted with wine and bread, just like Iraq!
Watch Fox News and learn the truth, obummer is a kenyan born, radical muslim socialist waging jihad against America from our WHITE House!
Join with our GOP Heroes and Tea Party Patriots to DEMAND additional tax cuts for the Job Creator class! Not for the lazy poor and "entitled" middle class like obummer wants!
Uh oh, another case for gun control.
That is hilarious!
Why are Republicans so protective and sensitive about Israel? Hmmmm?
Memo,
The days of the faciast GOP party are over.The extreem types will be replaced,and the old men like mclame will be voted,out and or die,,lmao
Playing the role of belligerent grumpy old men- the GOP Senators.
Playing the roll of the usual dishonest, refusing to answer, corrupt, Obama shoe licking, cabinet appointee......Hagel.
Maybe Northrop-Grumman, Raytheon and Haliburton aren't owned by Jewish investors and politicians ?? haha. Johnny Johnny Johnny.
Now I don't care about the Jews,the GOP,tea. Naggers,guns god ect
Americans care about moving forward and the GOP are a backwards bunch,,,losers
Moving FORWARD! to where? MORE unemployment, MORE welfare?
Just more actors\ politicians. Our congress has become one bad reality show.
If Hagel can convince the members of Congress that he is totally incompetent the he should have no problem getting approved. Barry has an army of fools and slackers so he would fit right in. Again it should be looked at in the context of how much damage he could do in the remaining 47 months.
Barry could have found someone even more unqualified but then he would have to tap his very close advisors and staff. Because he is from Chicago couldn't he appoint his wife. She would not have to show up for work. She would still get paid.
GBA
Calling our President Barry makes you a disrespectful D bag. Thanks
The rest of your post isnt even worth commenting on.
Zorro,very insightful,a few other choices:sandra fluke,d.letterman,nancy phalisy,harry reid,you know all completely qualified to serve barry(his real name)
lasertroll - Thanks for reminding of the republican god Reagan who doubled the deficit, supported a ban on assault rifles and granted amnesty to illegals.
C'mon, give Raygun credit.
He did defeat mighty Granada.
...and averaged the same tax brackets in his tenure as Obama is proposing.
Watching the Hearing and I've never been so embarrassed to be an American watching aholes like McCain, Graham & Cruz sucking IsraHell off in front of everyone. I literally threw up twice. Hagel should just call them all traitors and walk away. Put David Duke up there to tell the truth.
Abolish - Thank you. Read my Comments.
Once Again, You have John "MC NASTY " McCain trying to talk to someone like Sen. Hagel, AS IF HE HAS NOT SERVED THE COUNTRY, AS A nobody trying to be Defense Secretary and does not know a damn thing about War. McCain was NASTY, CONDESCENDING in his Tone. I did not Watch Lindsay Graham because I am sure the Parrot would be the same Stupid.
McCain should really be ashamed of himself to talk to a fellow Nam Vet, like himself, like the man is Stupid, all to hit back at President Obama, because Obama is looking better daily and he and the GOP ARE LOOKING EVEN MORE FOOLISH in their attempts to Denigrate the Office of the Presidency, because it is currently occupied by Barack Obama and McCain is a MAJOR SORE LOSER.
It is time for McCain to Exit the Senate if he cannot take all of his years of Service and be a better person than that and take his PARROT, Lindsay Graham with him than to try to destroy Sen Hagel, another Vet who has served this Country HONORABLY, just as much or More than McCain himself, because he DARE QUESTION BUSH AND CHANEY'S ADVENTURE, in Iraq and the fact President Obama Nominated him.
All of the GOP are showing it is time for them to be dismissed as a Viable Party in this Country, when they start Attacking our Veterans in such a UNDERHANDED, UN INTELLIGENT MANNER.
McCain, Graham should just Step Back and NOT BE IN A LEADERSHIP ROLE over anything but inside their Minds to talk to a Fellow Vet in such Nasty Terms, Especially if this is what passes as Leadership in the GOP NOW!
McCain has never seen a war he didn't like... not even the one where he was beaten, injured and thrown in a pit / hellhole for 7 years.
Graham & Cruz were worse than McCain. It was pathetic.