Posted on 09/19/2008 1:45:06 PM PDT by steve-b
Hagel, along with Jim Leach and Lincoln Chaffee, endorsed Obama for President a while ago. Undoubtedly, he expects some kind of reward in an Obama Administration.
Cheney needs to invite Hagel on a hunting trip.
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Actually in my opinion your right on target with your observation.
also:
Republican leadership lost out because they forgot something that most of us common sense parents know and that is you can not keep your kids in line without invoking tough love every once in a while.
Sometimes that means using all means of punishment.
Can’t these old farts ever just shut up and go away ? Who cares what he thinks .
Here is a website created by someone who has worked with Sarah Palin on corruption in Alaska. It’s worth a look for some reference material.
http://www.palinfightscorruption.com/palin/
[snip]Sarah’s entry onto the scene was out-of-the box, to put it mildly. She displaced former U.S. Senator Frank Murkowski from the Governor’s mansion and immediately set out to reverse years of preferential oil company policies. She rejected the oil companies’ gas pipeline plan in favor of an open, competitive process that resulted in the first concrete steps to significant gas production in Alaska. When one of the oil companies failed to develop a gas and oil lease that it had held for decades, she began forfeiture proceedings against it.
But more importantly, she wanted to clean up politics in Alaska. With total disregard for her own political future, she boldly took on her own party, holding it accountable for its ties to an oil contracting company that has since been connected with the bribery of several Alaskan legislators. This angered the state GOP leadership and long-time party activists who benefited from significant campaign contributions from oil.
As recently as this past spring, during the Alaska GOP state convention, she asked GOP delegates to turn their back on corruption and choose new party leadership independent of oil lobbyists. But using blatantly illegal parliamentary tactics, and creating an exodus of disgruntled delegates in the process, the party avoided that change by the thinnest of margins.
Frankly, that explains the current intrastate campaign against the governor. When the Alaska state senate president attacks Sarah for lack of experience, one need only investigate that GOP senator’s deep and unseemly connections to the oil industry. Even on the other side of the aisle, internal attacks are explained by connections to oil or, in the case of the legislator purporting to investigate her for ethical lapses, gubernatorial aspirations.
So what about the people who know her, her constituents? Unlike the disgruntled political adversaries and oil company lobbyists, real Alaskans from all political stripes endorse her with a resounding 80% approval rating, the highest of any governor nationwide. Why? Because they know she’ll never sell out. Pundits concerned about her advancement to the Oval Office should take some comfort in that.
The writer is an attorney in Fairbanks. He is a former U.S. Magistrate Judge, state judicial officer, and decorated Gulf War Veteran (B.S., United States Military Academy; J.D., Yale Law School; M.S., Resource Economics, University of Alaska).
©Joseph W. Miller
STFU Hag
Chuckie’s jealous and he has every right to be. Nobody loves the Chuckster, maybe he can be Joint Chief in Barack’s Shadow Government.
The only relevant question related to Senator Hagel is: “Who cares?”
No. I think the Omaha meat packer's union pays him well. He was real big on amnesty wasn't he?
Hagle is a genuine turd burgler!
Hagel will be gone shortly and replace by former Governor Mike Johanns. Johanns is solid and very popular in Nebraska. Definitely not a wanker like Hagel has become. There was once a time when Hagel was a pretty good senator. He really went down the crapper the past few years.
F.B.I. FILES
Raise hell and refuse to either support or vote for Hagel and turds like him.
When he comes to your city, attack him and his position in front of folks.
I love activist Republicans that go after fake Republicans.
Few ever did. Talk about a turncoat RINO ... This guy makes John McCain look like John Birch.
I am sure Hagel backstabbing the Gop and McCain and Palin will bring in exactly one extra vote for Barry...his own...
Get a Republican elected that more accurately reflects—
Actually we have that in Adrian Smith. If he does not change what with being in Washington, he does represent our conservative ways.
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