Posted on 09/08/2007 6:17:45 AM PDT by mathprof
WASHINGTON - Chuck Hagel will announce Monday that he is retiring from the U.S. Senate and will not run for president next year, people close to the Nebraska Republican said Friday.
Hagel plans to announce that "he will not run for re-election and that he does not intend to be a candidate for any office in 2008," said one person, who asked not to be named.
Hagel has scheduled a press conference for 10 a.m. Monday at the Omaha Press Club.
According to one person interviewed, Hagel told Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky on Friday morning that he had decided to retire. Hagel's staff learned of his decision that afternoon.
The North Platte native earned national recognition as perhaps the most vocal, at times angry, GOP critic of the Bush administration's Iraq policies.
His outspokenness on Iraq and other key issues, including Social Security and foreign policy, fueled national interest in Hagel as he flirted with a possible presidential bid.
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The putz actually called a press conference to announce that sometime in the future he would call a press conference!!! What an egomaniacal ass clown.
If you have no pending chores to do.
If one of the two old bags from CA retires, I'll set the BBQ up by the pool early. Bring a bathing suit. And Hank Williams Jr. I'll throw a great big loud eating and drunken party right here around the pool all day long. A good party is noticed when the cops stop by and tell everybody to behave themselves:)
He had the choice of being a gentleman or a douche bag.
....will we get a real conservative now? Or another RINO?
Good Job!!!
I think Joe Scarsbourgh has that job nailed down tight.
Good riddance!
I echo that. Now for a real conservative Republican to fill the useless space he took up for so long.
Good on you. Good luck to you all. Be a nice change from Hagel stinking up the air waves with his nonsense
You posted my exact words when I read that news.
Hagel is yet another example of what happens when weak minded folks spend TOO LONG in positions beyond their capabilities in Washington, D.C..
They fall victim to believing they ARE “honorable, wise and worthy” of the position of trust placed in them by the people....
It fact - they aren’t.
Most are not....
That is the problem — Washington is filled with people INCAPABLE of grasping the real problems and solving them..
Most of our politicians are in a state of constant grooming, preening and strutting before the cameras.....while defecating all over the place, like the chickens they mimic...
Fewer traitors in our midst.
This RINO is gone. Now Nebraska needs to replace him with a solid conservative.
National recognition, Nebraskan condemnation.
I've heard rumors from contacts in Nebraska that if Hagel hung it up, Bob Kerrey would come back to run for his old seat. Hated to hear that for a number of reasons. Since his position on the major issues is pretty much the same as Hagel's I'd hope he couldn't get any traction for such a run. OTOH, it might make things easier for his Republican opponent.
One less democrat around. Now if Nebraska can elect a real Republican is yet to be seen.
Especially those in the media.
Absolutely! Now we won’t have to expend our energies on GETTING RID OF HIM!
I guess this means I won’t have to put up the “SinkChuckHagel” website I had planned for the election year.
Since 1988, we’ve had 20 years of Rats&Rino’s in charge.
Here’s hoping that 2008 will turn out to be the Year of the Conservative.
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