Senate Confirms Hagel to Lead Defense | Drudge Retort

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Senate Confirms Hagel to Lead Defense

The Senate confirmed its former colleague Chuck Hagel as Defense Secretary Tuesday in a 58-41 vote. The 66-year-old Vietnam veteran, who served as a Republican senator, was supported by Democrats and only four Republicans, Richard Shelby of Alabama, Mike Johanns of Nebraska, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Thad Cochran of Mississippi. President Barack Obama, another former Senate colleague, called Hagel a patriot who "fought and bled for our country."

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I guess they got all them questions about Benghazi and them drones all answered.

Good thing they delayed that nomination...whew...now we can all rest easy knowing the Republicans are just doing their jobs and looking out for us.

#1 | Posted by donnerboy at 2013-02-26 08:29 PM | Reply | Flag:

I'm glad I'm retiring..

#2 | Posted by boaz at 2013-02-26 08:32 PM | Reply | Flag:

I'm glad I'm retiring..

#2 | Posted by boaz at 2013-02-26 08:32 PM | Reply | Flag:

So is the rest of the US population.

#3 | Posted by DirkStruan at 2013-02-26 08:39 PM | Reply | Flag:

I'm glad I'm retiring..

#2 | Posted by boaz

Good. Just don't move anywhere near my neighborhood, Rambo.

#4 | Posted by nullifidian at 2013-02-26 08:46 PM | Reply | Flag:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Yeah, that terrorist-lovin' commie sympathizer. He's gonna ruin our international standing.

#5 | Posted by pragmatist at 2013-02-26 08:55 PM | Reply | Flag:

Rand Paul voted for him?! Wow. Okay, Paulites. What do you think of your Junior Hero now?

#6 | Posted by pragmatist at 2013-02-26 08:56 PM | Reply | Flag:

I'm glad I'm retiring..

#2 | Posted by boaz

Yeah try to remember that although the army broke your brain and trained you that murder is ok when they order it, you're not allowed to do that once you rejoin regular life. Mkay?

#7 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2013-02-26 08:57 PM | Reply | Flag:

George Will, "If the president wants a terrible secretary of defense, he's got a right to him..."

#8 | Posted by sawdust at 2013-02-26 09:11 PM | Reply | Flag:

"If the president wants a terrible secretary of defense, he's got a right to him..."

Enough about Rummy already.

If Hagel had been nominated by Dubya, Will would have called him the best choice ever. The war on hagel is just another item proving the GOP has reduced itself to irrelevancy.

#9 | Posted by northguy3 at 2013-02-26 09:14 PM | Reply | Flag:

Good. Just don't move anywhere near my neighborhood, Rambo.

I have no need to live in a trailer park.

#10 | Posted by boaz at 2013-02-26 09:19 PM | Reply | Flag:

Is McCain really that bitter now?

#11 | Posted by Tor at 2013-02-26 09:35 PM | Reply | Flag:

"If Hagel had been nominated by Dubya, Will would have called him the best choice ever."

maybe. But no doubt a lot of the GOP votes against him would have been the other way had GWB nominated him.

And the same dems slobbering over Hagel wouldn't have voted to confirm him had GWB nominated him either.

Hagel was a lock anyway. so much of this crap is pure theatre and nothing more.

#12 | Posted by eberly at 2013-02-26 09:49 PM | Reply | Flag:

He is a much better pick then john McCan't..

#13 | Posted by truthteller101 at 2013-02-26 10:47 PM | Reply | Flag:

Hagel was a lock anyway. so much of this crap is pure theatre and nothing more.

#12 | Posted by eberly

sadly, you're right.

#14 | Posted by northguy3 at 2013-02-26 11:15 PM | Reply | Flag:

Obama is going to regret this one, I predict. When the guy's own party does not like him, watch out.

#15 | Posted by Diablo at 2013-02-26 11:16 PM | Reply | Flag:

I'm glad I'm retiring..
#2 | Posted by boaz at 2013-02-26 08:32 PM | Reply | Flag:

me too--i can return those boring berlitz chinese cds...

#16 | Posted by badgerwest at 2013-02-26 11:33 PM | Reply | Flag:

The Indian lobby is out on a mission to bring this guy down.

Too bad for them, the "indian lobby" doesn't have the clout they think it has. LOL

Related thread:

#17 | Posted by Rigel at 2013-02-27 01:48 AM | Reply | Flag:

**** Hagel is the perfect (programmed) Robot for the Obama Govt to try to fool the American Public into believing that they have any real integrity!

#18 | Posted by AntiCadillac at 2013-02-27 03:40 AM | Reply | Flag:

"And the same dems slobbering over Hagel wouldn't have voted to confirm him had GWB nominated him either."

First GWB would never have nominated anyone who spoke the truth about the Iraq invasion and secondly, when he did speak the truth those of us who opposed that invastion recognized him and applauded him despite the fact he was a Republican. You seem to be more of a party hack than I do, I respect Hagel because the told it the way he saw it instead of holding the party line as McCain admitted.

#19 | Posted by danni at 2013-02-27 06:46 AM | Reply | Flag:

"When the guy's own party does not like him, watch out."

When this party doesn't like him, I say "Hire him now!" They nominated Mitt Romney, for God's sake--a boring, principle-less corporate hack. I would have had more respect for them if they'd nominated Rick Santorum--he at least appears to have principles; I don't like them, but he has them.

#20 | Posted by pragmatist at 2013-02-27 06:53 AM | Reply | Flag:

It was funny to watch Schumer carry the water for Hagel. They can't stomach each other.

Hagel is an absolutely perfect pick for Obama's SOD. There simply isn't anyone better. Now just get Lew in at Treasury and White at SEC, and the money will roll in. He doesn't need those silly $500,000 tete-a-tete meetings with Citigroup and Goldman Sachs running the Treasury Department and their watchdog agency.

Ching ching!

#21 | Posted by uglyblinddate at 2013-02-27 07:01 AM | Reply | Flag:

This is where chants of "pleasure of the president" and "up or down vote" come home to roost.

#22 | Posted by ChiefTutMoses at 2013-02-27 07:05 AM | Reply | Flag:

Hagel is an absolutely perfect pick for Obama's SOD. There simply isn't anyone better...

Ching ching!

#21 | Posted by uglyblinddate at 2013-02-27 07:01 AM

Curious, why do you feel Hagel, as Secretary of Defense, will bring in a lot of money? He doesn't appear to be some war monger who would send the military industrial stocks skyward.

#23 | Posted by CalifChris at 2013-02-27 07:52 AM | Reply | Flag:

"Ching ching!"

He will be downsizing the Pentagon. Where you get the "Ching ching!" I can't imagine.

#24 | Posted by danni at 2013-02-27 07:54 AM | Reply | Flag:

Odumbo wanted to appoint Hagel and Kerry because they are so dumb they make The Golfer-in-Chief look almost smart. Someday when The Class & Race-Divider-in-Chief steps down we can laugh at his Harvard report card if it exists.

#25 | Posted by fwthom at 2013-02-27 09:32 AM | Reply | Flag:

Rand Paul voted for him?! Wow. Okay, Paulites. What do you think of your Junior Hero now?

Hagel is one of the more anti-war (yet still confirmable) candidates that Obama could have chosen. He was supported by the Cato Institute. I don't think it should shock anyone that Rand Paul voted for him. Rand isn't your typical lock-stepper, in case you haven't noticed.

#26 | Posted by JOE at 2013-02-27 09:46 AM | Reply | Flag:

I didn't say he's a lockstepper, but he appears to be a Tea Party favorite, and the Tea Party is perhaps best-known for shouting down anything Obama does or wants.

#27 | Posted by pragmatist at 2013-02-27 09:53 AM | Reply | Flag:

I'd say the Republican Party is best known for that. The Tea Party is known for bucking what the traditional Republican establishment wants.

I suppose people "know them" for what they want to know them for.

#28 | Posted by JOE at 2013-02-27 09:57 AM | Reply | Flag:

"I suppose people "know them" for what they want to know them for."

Not at all. I want to know them for being a reasonable new voice on the American political landscape. I chose my words carefully in my initial post. I'm not starting a fight about the Tea Party or about Rand Paul. I was surprised and I noted my surprise. (shrug)

#29 | Posted by pragmatist at 2013-02-27 10:03 AM | Reply | Flag:

"You seem to be more of a party hack than I do,"

geez, somebody is butthurt over the lable of partisan hack.

#30 | Posted by eberly at 2013-02-27 10:33 AM | Reply | Flag:

FWTHOM You never went to Harvard Obama did.

Kerry went to Yale and Hagel to the University of Nebraska.

Where did you go to college?

Or have you never set foot on a college campus?

#31 | Posted by Tor at 2013-02-27 05:57 PM | Reply | Flag:

The Tea Party was founded bucking wasteful establishment Republican spending policies such as the wars and Patriot Act, the bailouts, and lobbyists running Congress instead of the voters. The media elite turned them into racists to diminish their clout. The Koch Bros bought the leadership by making it Freedom Works.

The big Parties are controlled, and those that control them do not want threatened by rogue organizations such as OWS or the TP.

#32 | Posted by Robson at 2013-02-27 08:04 PM | Reply | Flag:

"I didn't say he's a lockstepper, but he appears to be a Tea Party favorite, and the Tea Party is perhaps best-known for shouting down anything Obama does or wants."

Could be that, despite the best efforts of the progressive bloc to demonstrate otherwise, the Tea Party has it's roots in the libertarian movement. I think that thee Statists in the progressive bloc correctly understand that they stand to lose a lot of their popular support when libertarian-mined candidates start to appear on election ballots.

Never read much about Hegel before today, but after doing so I'm something of a fan. Although I don't know how successful he will be fighting the inertia of the Pentagon, I wish him the best of luck.

#33 | Posted by madbomber at 2013-02-27 08:15 PM | Reply | Flag:

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