The Failed Anti-Hagel Campaign
12 Responses to The Failed Anti-Hagel Campaign
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I watched the McCain grilling of Hagel and once again I don’t understand how I could have supported him in 2000.
I agree that Lindsey Graham’s hold threat could be a problem. If McCain and Graham were in charge we would have already attacked Iran and have troops in Syria. -
Lloyd says:
Hagel has really performed badly. He will be confirmed,but I think he was a very poor choice.
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Mark Vadnais says:
Now I know how President Obama’s supporters felt after the first Presidential debate. This is the man we expect to articulate a non-interventionst foreign policy! Senator Hagel was ill prepared for the neocon onslaught and got chewed up and spit out by the Senator Jennifer Rubin’s of the world.
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SDS says:
Demanding yes/no answers to explain policy positions is playing GOTCHA… McCain, Cruz, etc.. should be above that…I guess that ‘s asking too much….
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DavidT says:
I am not sure he will be confirmed. This is not 1990 when all a nominee needed was a majority. The words “we’ll oppose him but we won’t filibuster” have long become obsolete; 60 votes are now required for everything. And I still haven’t heard of any Republican other than Cochran who has said he’ll vote fr Hagel.
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David Giza says:
I agree with James and Ron.
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ksat says:
I just saw the part of the hearing in which McCain tried to bully Hagel into stating a ‘yes or no’ answer on the Iraq surge. Really disgusting. McCain has stuck around too long and he and sidekick Graham are continuing to damage their party. Time for them to get over their Benghazi obsession. Ron Beasley’s post is spot on where he says that we would already be in at least two more wars if these neocon hacks were in charge.
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Sharculese says:
I watched the McCain grilling of Hagel and once again I don’t understand how I could have supported him in 2000.
In all fairness, he wasn’t yet incredibly bitter about not getting to be President then.
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Bob says:
Right about now, I am positively glad Romney lost, and McCain before him, and hope this continues until such time as the Republicans have returned to their senses or been electorally demolished.
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Rob in CT says:
Mark Vadnais – excellent comparison.
I didn’t see it, but I’ve read the reactions… and I feel like I did after the 1st debate last fall (which I didn’t watch, because I don’t watch the debates, because they’re mostly garbage). I gather Hagel didn’t do particularly well. But reading about the “questions” McCain, Inhofe, etc. asked him and I’m flabbergasted. I shouldn’t be, I guess, but I am. Those questions are absolutely awful. The only appropriate response is a snort of derision.
Which is exactly how I felt about the 1st debate. Etch-A-Sketch Mitt showed up and Obama was totally flat-footed. I would have been too, but I’m not running for POTUS and he’s got to be better than that. So I was pissed at Obama for such a poor showing. Similarly, I’m not happy with Hagel’s performance. I rather wish he’d pushed back, hard. Give it right back to these guys (who were disasterously wrong and refuse to admit it). So, Senator, where are the WMDs?
I know, I know. Such things simply aren’t done. Grr.
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Benavram says:
Senator McCain and Senator Graham, undoubtedly, are unaware that they are cherished, enshrined members of the heavily-populated Protestant, literal-minded “useful idiots” club – created by and heavily funded by the Israel Lobby and their co-warmongers, the military/industrial complex.
Great piece. The foolish Republicans who oppose confirmation of Chuck Hagel at Defence, clearly want to suppress any honest discussion of American foreign policy in the Middle East. Foolish Republicn warmongers, and stooges of the military-industrial-congressional complex.