Posted on 02/14/2013 8:09:50 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Chuck Hagel blocked: Still short of 60 votes By: Tim Mak and Manu Raju February 14, 2013 10:35 AM EST
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Thursday that Republicans have informed him that they plan to block Chuck Hagel's nomination to be the next secretary of Defense over demands for more information from the White House.
Reid suggested that Democrats do not have 60 votes at this time to overcome Republican objections, leaving the nomination in limbo ahead of next week's Senate recess.
Complicating the situation still further was Reid’s announcement that the current holder of the job, Leon Panetta, would clock out later today.
"We do not have, at 12 o'clock today, a secretary of Defense," Reid said. “It’s tragic they’ve decided to filibuster this qualified nominee — it is really unfortunate.”
Democrats earlier appeared confident Hagel would be confirmed in the Senate, despite a bitterly partisan vote in the Senate Armed Services Committee and Republican efforts to delay, if not derail, a final vote in the full Senate.
But with Democrats controlling the Senate with just 55 votes, the former Republican senator from Nebraska needs a Republican lift to get the 60 votes needed to break a GOP filibuster. The vote to end debate is now set for Friday. A simple majority of 51 votes would be needed for confirmation, if debate is ended.
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:-)!
And at 12 today, without Panetta we will do just fine, after his last 28k trip back to california,
And at 12 today, without Panetta we will do just fine, after his last 28k trip back to california,
Just thinking like Chavez, because that's who this president is emulating. Good bye middle class, just like Venezuela.
Not so many moderate republicans anymore that could be duped into voting for cloture in years past. Gone are Specter, Snowe, Brown, DeWine, Voinovich, Warner, Stevens, Hutchison, Lugar, Chafee, Jeffords, Dole, Bond, etc.
Oh, poor democrats.
Why do we need a Secretary of Defense anyways???
Guess the RINOs have not been offered enough party invites yet.
Pvt Goober put on ice - for now.
“”We do not have, at 12 o’clock today, a secretary of Defense,” Reid said. “It’s tragic they’ve decided to filibuster this qualified nominee — it is really unfortunate.” “ BULLSH!T! This guy would just move up to “Acting” DecDef:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton_Carter
Ashton would be a MUCH better pick as SecDef than Pannetta was or Hagal is!
He's lying. I don't know why he's lying this time, but I am sure he has the 60. There are at least five Pubbies (The usual suspects) that are going to vote for closure, and the Rats will vote in lockstep as they always do.
Zero will just deem the Senate in recess and appoint him.
The man is lawless.
Everything we’ve seen reported about Mr. Hagel indicates he would be one of the very last people fit to hold this job. Who knows, maybe the d***ed Senate is finally waking up to start doing its job????????????
Next week’s Senate recess = recess appointment?
That’s just the sort of bird-flipping we’ve come to expect from Obama.
Wow till you see it in writing ,what a crew!
Congress is taking their Presidents week vacation/ “RECESS” next week. I predict there wont be a vote on Hagel this week and Obama will “Recess Appoint” him next week. Might do it with his CIA Nominee also.
To say that Carter is more qualified than Pvt. Goober is the understatement of the year. Goober has a BA in history, that’s it. He has also has no experience whatsover in military affairs. None. Nadda. Compare Pvt Goober’s resume’ to Carter’s. Like I said before Goober’s nomination was payback for trashing Bush for eight years and supporting the Kenyan King not once, but twice.
“Carter received bachelor’s degrees in physics and in medieval history from Yale University, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. He received his doctorate in theoretical physics from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
In 1972, Carter graduated from Abington High School in Abington, PA where he had been President of the Honor Society”
If I remember correctly, the house stays in session and that ends that. I think that is what happened with his labor board picks. I am not sure though.
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