Posted on 03/26/2007 6:59:13 PM PDT by NotchJohnson
Republican (in name only) Senator Chuck Hagel, darling and hero of the leftist media, appeared on 'This Week' yesterday. It was there that he used the "I" word....impeachment. Hagel's all upset about the war and says some see impeachment of the president as an option to stop said war. Of course, Hagel is running for president...and whenever he criticizes George Bush the media considers him the most important, solid, hard-core Republican ever. This is all despite the fact that 99% of Americans outside of Nebraska have never heard of Chuck Hagel and couldn't pick him out of a lineup.
The threat against Bush went this way. When speaking about his frustration that Bush is going ahead with the war despite it being unpopular, Hagel said: "Any president who says, I don't care, or I will not respond to what the people of this country are saying about Iraq or anything else, or I don't care what the Congress does, I am going to proceed if a president really believes that, then there are what I was pointing out, there are ways to deal with that." Ahh yes...ways to deal with that. Nice threat, Senator.
Not listening to the majority of the American people does not constitute a "high crime and misdemeanor." In fact, it might very well show wisdom. Remember, the majority of the American people (a) think this country is a Democracy; and (b) can't name their two U.S. Senators.
But .. Hagel is just huffing and puffing. Just like the Democrats who don't have the votes to cut off funding and end the war, Hagel doesn't have the ability to deliver impeachment. Perhaps he should be reminded of the process....the House would have to pass articles of impeachment, and we all know they can't agree on anything.
But to the media...Hagel is the man. There is no more important or powerful Republican, but only when he criticizes Bush.
Doesn't seem likely. Farmers don't like *any* politicians much. The city folks, well over half the population, are still very "country" oriented, with many folks having Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, etc still on the farm. And they cherish that. I do, and I haven't lived there for 30 years (well in about 2 months it will be 30 years. Time flies).
Just last month I traveled there for my Father-In-Law's funeral. The after funeral luncheon was held in the VFW hall. That hall is full of flags, maybe a hundred maybe two hundred, burial flags, many with the rounds from their final salute in with the flag. My father-in-law's is probably there now. His oldest grandson was one of the two soldiers to fold that flag and hand it to my mother-in-law.
It wasn't just the WW-II generation that was in awe of those flags.
No I doubt the folks, at least in that town/city appreciate Hagel's current antics much.
But OTOH, they aren't overjoyed at the slow pace of the war either.
Hagel is the Southern end of Northbound hoese!
Republicans are only important to the media when they aren't really Republicans. They are exactly like liberals and others who suck up to the worst enemies of the United States.
The media laughs at them behind their back. Usually, they are so hep on all the attention, they are blind to see what they have wrought.
The high priest of the church of painful truth has been defrocked....listen to Laura Ingraham. LOL!
You want I should get my Senators (Hutchinson and Cornyn) to kick his arse?
See: John McCain
Nah. Better an incompetent doofus who'd probably F* up anything damaging he tried, than a cold calculating hate machine who would be merciless and relentless in raping America, with her six-foot-two strap-on to do the dirty work.
There, that feels better.
Mark
My Senator, MR Hagel, has been representing his old industry, from the beginning. That industry is "high tech I.D. cards". {forgable CARDS, not a checkable Database}.
Once Maine came out against his DREAM driver's license SCAM; Chuck "lost it".
As More & More Legislatures defy his plan, he gets nuttier.
Just thought I would bring in some help.
This group has the collective common sense of a turnip.
Nam Vet
There's an old saying that goes something like this. "I wouldn't want to be a member of any organization that would accept me as a member." This may be an old Groucho Marx line. My version substitutes Senator Chuck Hagel as the person I wouldn't want to be in the same group as myself.
RP, get some backbone and cancel this guy's reservation...
They've been trying to do it for years. The media has used McCain, Snowe, Collins, and Graham from S. Carolina against the President. They haven't gotten any traction over the last six years. They may hate it like hell, but they're not going to get the President on anything, least of all, Iraq.
They've been trying to do it for years. The media has used McCain, Snowe, Collins, and Graham from S. Carolina against the President. They haven't gotten any traction over the last six years. They may hate it like hell, but they're not going to get the President on anything, least of all, Iraq.
Maybe Webb adopted him. I wonder what Webb could do to calm his "son"...
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