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George McGovern
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Obama is going to nominate former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel for Defense Secretary, tomorrow. It should be interesting to follow.
ANY Republican who is nominated by Obama to ANYTHING will immediately become the focus of great criticism from some other Republicans, because their hatred of the president is so great they MUST oppose EVERYTHING is proposes. Hell, if Obama proposed to end all welfare tomorrow, the GOP would oppose it because it was the president’s proposal. They care little about policy, or the people who elected him. They care about hating Obama.
Hagel is a jack_ but he could clean up some waste and fraud in the DD. Cato Institute endorsed him.
ok, i’ll bite. hagel’s a rino.
From Salon; musings on the Fiscal Bluff.
Frank, Hagel’s done more for his country before he was 30 than you have during your entire life.
It would be nice if they could actually govern.
Victims of Sandy become political fodder, stay classy GOP!
“ok, i’ll bite. hagel’s a rino.”
Is that why Cato endorses him, Frank?
BTW, have you learned to spell “a lot” yet? Want to insult your sister some more?
Think those House Reps complaining about the pork in the Sandy bill being honest? Of course they aren’t. Most of the pork benefits Southern states to guarantee those Repub senators didn’t filibuster. Do you think those Repub senators jumped up and down to dump that pork? Nah.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/01/03/pork-holding-up-senate-sandy-relief-bill-fenefits Southern unneled-into-the-troughs-of-gop-deficit-hawks-you-betcha/
We were talking about oysters the other day.
ah, here we go. personal attacks by steve c and dgag. what else could i expect?
hey, by and large, i agree with CATO….which has nothing to do with Hagel being a rino…which he is.
Ok, I usually don’t read blogs and tonight’s experience is the reason why. I clicked on the Rush Limbaugh thread and spent a couple of hours reading the 1000+ posts. I think that I kept reading because I hoped that someone would actually say something reasonable, intelligent, thoughtful, civil. WRONG. Mister Casey, why do you tolerate the mean, spiteful, name calling, gay bashing (or was that after you stopped following the thread, us vs them mentality evidenced by your posters. Yes I realized that the ranting and mudslinging of some of your posters serve the purpose of stimulating more posts buy there should be a time when enough is enough and that thread went way past that point. About 500 posts past that point. Thanks
If Hagel is truely qualified to be the Sec. of Defense and gets nominated and voted in by Congress, does it really matter his political party status? If he gets the position, let’s then judge him by his body of work in a few years at this important cabinet position.
A couple of thoughts popped into my mind-
Wonder what Boehner will say to Hagel when they pass in the hall?
Should be an interesting confirmation hearing?
As this is a open thread on “Acceptance”, who is willing to accept this five-year extension of the surveillance:
http://tinyurl.com/anwtbcu
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Spying on Americans, phase 2
By MICHAEL KIRKLAND, UPI Senior Legal Affairs Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (UPI) — Congress ended the suspense and re-enacted the FISA Amendments Act in late December, giving the U.S. Supreme Court, which has already heard argument on one aspect of the law, a living controversy to chew on.
Without congressional action, some key provisions of the law, known as the FAA in court documents, would have expired Tuesday. President Obama has signed the legislation into law.
Reaction to the five-year extension of the surveillance, which was never in any serious doubt, predictably has been mixed. Conservatives and others praise the extension as a bipartisan effort to protect the nation from terror. Liberals and civil libertarians tend to see it as a privacy disaster.
SNIP
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Re: Art Hill @ 8:44 pm
Good read. Thanks for the link.
Dave Hicks, I voted for Obama and stand by that vote, but I think he has failed in this arena. Way too much room for misuse here. Should have closed Guantanamo as well.
+1 #17 Jason Perdue — January 7, 2013 @ 12:03am. I am flummoxed that anyone can still call Obama a Socialist. He is so Bush on so many things it kills me!
Hagel is worse than a RINO. I don’t know why he bothers pretending.
Chuck Hagel’s principal sins are that he was waayyy ahead of the curve when he rightly opposed w’s asinine vanity war in Iraq in addition to “only” voting for 40 billion in aid to Israel.
How un-American.
In this particular case, being labeled a RINO by you clowns is obviously a far worse transgression than being an actual Chicken Hawk. Go figure.
Chuck Hagel’s principal sins are that he was waayyy ahead of the curve when he rightly opposed w’s asinine vanity war in Iraq
So was he behind the curve when he voted for the war?
Leftwingers shouldn’t try analyses. Leave it to the professionals.
Wonder what Boehner will say to Hagel when they pass in the hall?
Should be an interesting confirmation hearing?
Comment by Jason Perdue — January 6, 2013 @ 11:05 pm
Probably go something like “Good morning, sir. Would it be possible to discuss your qualifications to be Defense Secre…Wow! Would you look at that; you got a Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, two Purple Hearts, and Army Commendation Medal and the Combat Infantryman Badge. Hey, do you think I could borrow those next Halloween?
Jason Perdue: “Wonder what Boehner will say to Hagel when they pass in the hall?
Should be an interesting confirmation hearing?”
Steve C: “Probably go something like “Good morning, sir. Would it be possible to discuss your qualifications to be Defense Secre…Wow! Would you look at that; you got a Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, two Purple Hearts, and Army Commendation Medal and the Combat Infantryman Badge. Hey, do you think I could borrow those next Halloween?”
IT’S POOL TIME, PEOPLE! Name the day and hour that some phony Swift-Boat Veterans “for Truth” outfit, funded by a chickenhawk millionaire, begins calling Hagel a coward and questioning his service.
It’s gotten so weird in Washington. Aside from McCain and Hagel, are there any elected Republican war heroes? I know there are plenty of Democrats who fit that bill, but the majority of the GOP apparently avoided the draft or any military service. They’re the biggest hypocrites in town when it comes to defense stuff.
Well said, Steve C.
Dan, I will need to do some research before I can make a “swift boat docking” prediction. As research is a bit of a stretch for me, and I am busy coordinating additional “freebie” days now that we’ve won the election so convincingly, I will need to hire a research firm of the highest order. Reviews on the Internets suggest the best critical analysis to be had in the region comes from the firm Suzie, Pammala, and Frank, PC. Have you heard of them?
Jason Perdue,
Good one!
“IT’S POOL TIME, PEOPLE!”
Does this count?
I predict that phony chickenhawk suzie will start putting down his military service in 5…. 4…. 3….