Posted on 01/25/2007 6:16:01 AM PST by .cnI redruM
When Senator Chuck Hagel adopts the faux anger of a Lou Dobbs propaganda burst, you can bet your equity that stupidity is not only afoot, but also mounted on wings of hyperbole. The risk is not that great, Chuck Hagel has a proven track record that wouldnt get a middle class scholar into Harvard. Except to visit the pretty campus and buy a t-shirt.
Yes, Chuck Hagel fits the perverted profile of a Republican Who Has Grown. Boy, does he make some of us groan. Hagels adopted raison detre is, of course, his reasoned opposition to the presence of the US Army in Iraq.
Hagel can play against the GOP White House, but not without a whole sandbox of playmates from across the aisle. Hagel is a godsend to the likes of Carl Levin and Joe Biden. He provides them cover and concealment as they seek to undermine President Bush and guarantee the military defeat that theyve so heavily invested the fortunes of their political party in seeing come to fruition.
Hagel has succeeded in bringing his opposition to The Iraq War to the floor of The Senate. Regrettably, he puts it in the framework of a non-binding resolution. This stating that the sense of the Senate was that President Bushs troop surge was not in our nations best interest.
Senator Chuck Hagel brought shrapnel home from Vietnam inside his body. He should know full well the tragic cost of gutless half measures. However, reading his actual policy stands, on the decisions to be made today, makes the political consumer have to wade through the type of nuance that Vietnam infantrymen used to have to burn on latrine duty. His actual recommendations deserve a trip to the burn barrel along with four parts diesel and one part Mogas.
Hagel claims to favor immediate redeployment and yet says the following:
"I don't like time frames because it gives the president no flexibility, and I think you always must have flexibility in these things and a judgment call by the president," he said.
When Israel was fighting Hezbollah recently over that groups use of Lebanon to fire rockets at Israeli citizens, Hagel claimed to be aghast at the carnage and demanded that President Bush engineer a cease fire.
"Our relationship with Israel is special and historic," he said. "But it need not and cannot be at the expense of our Arab and Muslim relationships. That is an irresponsible and dangerous false choice."
Allowing Israel to chase down a bunch of murderous wag-halters, engaged in shooting rocketry at her civilian population, is a false and irresponsible choice? Chuck Hagel really needs to leave the US Senate and try making his living at something where he actually has to make one or two responsible choices.
It seems that the mans life has been a win-win situation for too long and hes badly losing his edge and sense of perspective. Hes forgotten anything he learned under fire; as a soldier in defense of America. His learning curve value is greater than 1.0. It runs in the wrong direction and he finds the slog harder with each vacuous position to perceive the truth.
Hagel could salvage something of his soul; if he were to labor in the vineyards of the private sector. Even George McGovern developed a greater appreciation for the real world. It came after the former Senator and Presidential runner-up, sank both his heart and his ambitions into a privately-owned business that failed.
I dont mock George McGovern for his failures. I praise him instead for playing against his own type and really stepping beyond boundaries. I imagine he grew from that failure. Sure it hurt; but he grew wiser in the end.
Something similar needs to make Chuck Hagel wise up. If he beliefs it to his core that the US Army has no business in Iraq, attack the funding. Pass a resolution that binds, and then fight like the 82nd Airborne against George W. Bushs rather predictable veto missive. I may disagree with him 180 degrees on this, but Id respect him a whole lot more if he manned up and stopped ghost-writing non-binding blather for the likes of Carl Levin.
Right now, Im not the only one who treats Chuck Hagels credibility with the respect that Ayn Rand hero Howard Rourke treated the sexual chastity of Dominique Francon. Vice-President Dick Cheney laughs at Hagels gurley-man resolution, as the surge troops leave Ft. Bragg; amidst Chuck Hagels hardest blowing.
Chuck Hagel falsely believes that he will run a competitive campaign for the Republican nomination. He wont get there with legislative legerdemain where the intricate details cut and run from the resolution's stated desire to cut and run. Hagel may think this will help him be a maverick and run for President. The only race hes really running is the same one American forces ran at Bladensburg.
True enough. He's in for a shockeroonie.
RINO sissy boy.
That's why we have a document known as a constitution. It lays to nines the stupid schemes and glory lust of idiots like Chuck Hagel.
I wouldn't vote for Hagel if he was running for dog catcher, much less president. He is giving aid and comfort to the enemy every time he opens his big, fat treasonous mouth. He belongs in Leavenworth.
BUMP!
Gitmo
He may follow in the footsteps of "Jumpin' Jim Jeffords"????
Calling any Cornhusker FReeper who can explain to me a great mystery:
What is it with Nebraska?
You folks have a history of strange senators:
J. J. Exon was clearly more conservative than many Republicans in his home state, Bob Kerrey gave every indication of being insane, Ben Nelson votes more conservatively than many a RINO, and now Hagel flirts with the idea of leaving the GOP to run for POTUS as an independent.
Is there something in the water out there? Or maybe a genetic flaw in your hybrid corn has contaminated the human food chain?
If he jumps, will he have really been pushed.
To 12 Wondered the same...could be they grow too much pot in their cornfields and too many folks don't speak English. Nagel is a disgrace. There has to be some Cornhuskers that want this guy cooked...
Someone else has to be out there. This cannot be our Presidential field.
I am praying hard.
LLS
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