Sounds pretty weak, to me.
just a matter of picking your battles. Hagels past comments on Israel, etc are irrelevant as SecDef. US policy with Israel isn’t the SecDef’s job, it’s the Presidents.
Don’t they always have an answer?
You know what? I’m sick of this sheet. I don’t care about their excuses, their answers.
When does OUR opinion count?
“In the end I voted for John Kerry also although I agree with almost nothing that John Kerry represents,” he added.
Keep it up and we won’t need to have elections *or* political parties any more. Gotta love the reasoning. Like father, like son...?
Judge a man by his actions and not his words. This is easy to judge, therefore.
That was lame, he could have just skipped it if he didn’t have anything to say.
There is “yes” and there is “no”. But if you don’t have enough
information then why not invoke the third option? Come
re-election time the “not enough information” can explain an
abstention better than it can a “yes” vote.
“In the end I voted for John Kerry also although I agree with almost nothing that John Kerry represents,”
Like his father , he plays all sides against the middle.
"The Hagel Unit will disclose the information."
Rand Paul just lost a lot of respect and credibility.
Sen. Paul voted against cloture because, according to him, he was angling to get more information on President Obama’s nominee and he voted to confirm Hagel because the president has some “leeway” with his appointees.
Say What>.... bull pellets...
“The fact that Hagel hates Jews just didn’t bother me as much as it bothers some conservatives,” added Paul.
The fact is that Rand Paul is correct.
The President ahs to be given wide leeway in who he chooses to run his departments.
John Kerry is a lousy human being and has been wrong on every major foreign policy decision in the last five decades, however he is not a criminal and does qualify for the position. Same with Hagel. Hagel is the exact type of person O’Bumbler wants in Sec of Defense simply because he is an idiot who will implement his plans. Hagel and Kerry are not the problem. O’Bumbler is!
O’Bumbler decides. You can hardly prevent a decorated War Veteran and a former Senator from becoming a cabinet member. It just isn’t feasible and probably isn’t justifiable. .
He was charged with "misdemeanor assault on a female by aggressive physical force."
The U.S. Code would seem to apply here.
49 USC § 46504 - Interference with flight crew members and attendantsPerhaps if Senator Paul votes the right way, the feds at justice.gov will not prosecute his son.An individual on an aircraft in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States who, by assaulting or intimidating a flight crew member or flight attendant of the aircraft, interferes with the performance of the duties of the member or attendant or lessens the ability of the member or attendant to perform those duties, or attempts or conspires to do such an act, shall be fined under title 18, imprisoned for not more than 20 years, or both. However, if a dangerous weapon is used in assaulting or intimidating the member or attendant, the individual shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life.
Criminal Resource Manual 1406 Aircraft Piracy, Interference, and Other Title 49 Aircraft Offenses -- VenueFurther, there are good arguments that even a brief interference with a crew member under 49 U.S.C. § 46504 (formerly 49 U.S.C. App. § 1472(j)) or offenses such as assault under 49 U.S.C. § 46506(1) (formerly 49 U.S.C. App. § 1472(k)) need not be tried in the district over which the aircraft was flying at the time the offense was committed.
“I’m the same way on Brennan. I want more information on drone strikes in America. On final passage though I take the position that the president does have some leeway and some prerogative in who he appoints to political appointees.
Go away, go far far away.
obama just loves effing with the GOP. He finds the biggest fools possible for the job and still manages to push them through. He just loves to “win.”
Trying to justify his vote by making it appear noble only convinces me, he was either leveraged or bought.
I heard this on the Beck show- and I was VERY uncomfortable with it. I wonder of Rand knows that we have a representative republic- and that we don’t send these idiots to DC to further their career- but to SERVE us.
He kept blabbing on and on about what HE wanted to do.. blah- blah..
I kept yelling at the radio, “What did your constituents tell you to do??”
I had just begun to pay attention to him, and now I am highly uncomfortable with this guy.