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Posted on 06/21/2011 2:50:15 PM PDT by Hawk720
With little fanfare or controversy, the Senate on Tuesday unanimously confirmed Leon Panetta as the next Defense secretary as a debate rages in Washington over the cost and scope of military operations abroad.
Panetta, President Barack Obama’s CIA director, succeeds Robert Gates, who has led the Pentagon since late 2006 and is retiring at the end of the month.
Panetta’s confirmation comes just a day before Obama’s major address on the Afghanistan war in which he is expected to announce he’ll withdraw all 33,000 “surge” troops from the region by the end of 2012. In addition to the troop drawdown, Panetta will have to contend with lawmakers on Capitol Hill who are seeking to restrict Obama’s military operations in Libya.
The 100-0 vote revealed how well respected Panetta is on both sides of the aisle. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) called it a “home-run choice,” saying the president made a “very wise decision.”
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Not to mention he is a Clinton guy and he ran the CIA.
Who knows what he knows.
With this kind of acclamation in this atmosphere, one has to ask, is it what Panetta has on the Senate or what the GOP has on Panetta?
At least I see you get it. What is a “communist” these days? Isn’t the word “GLOBALIST” These criminals are new world order...globalists following agenda 21. Time to get out of the dem/rep paradiegm folks! Rep or dem is all the same. How many elections going back and forth and no changes in the direction of this country will it take for you to wake up? They are all working together to further erode our nation, in order to carry out the globalist agenda. They have stolen trillions of our money,and have created a police state in order to keep us in line.
Backbone? GOP? What are you talking about?
Communist, fascist, leftist and other labels are just variations on the theme of statism or collectivism where the group stands above the individual.
The senate approves of communists 100 to 0. How unexpected.
The journey down the 1.5 gallon federally mandated crapper is accelerating.
Flush flush flush. Tick tock.
There is no real Republicans in the Senate.
I think the GOP caucus looked at Leon and asked themselves, “If we block him, keeping in mind who’s appointing him, could it get any worse?”. And answered themselves, “YES IT CAN!”
No need to get snippy with me. I fully understand the gravity of the situation. If I didn’t try to make light of things at times, I’d probably try to go out in a blaze of glory.
I’m sorry tc.
No worries. I understand your frustration quite well. It’s hard to believe that the US as we understood it has not existed for quite a long time.
Does the phrase good cop/ bad cop routine mean anything to you? That’s what this dog and pony show sound like to me.
ty..I’m rattled lately and tend to be somewhat defensive (or offensive...depending the end of the spectrum one is on) and just do not have much humor left.
Is he a member of CPUSA, a Trotskite, or Maoist? Or is everyone we don’t like a “Communist”? Is O.J. Simpson a Communist?
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Is this old commie fool trying to get the Guinness record for most different cabinet posts?
>>> If you have a working cell in your brain, you wouldn’t attack the best Obama’s administration has offered up. You save your fire for the ones that are so unspeakably horrible
Common sense is less and less welcome. But it was a good try. They didn’t like it any better when I less eloquently made the same point on a later thread.
>>> IBTZ
txrangerette
Since Jul 10, 2001
central_va
Since Sep 18, 2007
Be less the fool.
The Politburo has spoken.
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