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Leon Panetta clears Senate 100-0
Politico ^ | 06/21/2011 | Scott Wong

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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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cia; gates; panetta; panettadod
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1 posted on 06/21/2011 2:50:16 PM PDT by Hawk720
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To: Hawk720

Big Commie; big mistake. 2012 can’t come soon enough.


2 posted on 06/21/2011 2:52:19 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Hawk720

100-0!? Nobody opted out for this communist? Anybody know why this happened?


3 posted on 06/21/2011 2:54:33 PM PDT by albie
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Big Commie; big mistake. 2012 can’t come soon enough.

When the entire senate votes for a known Communist sympathizer it is going to take more than an election to straighten this nation out.IMHO

4 posted on 06/21/2011 2:54:38 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Hawk720

wow.

not 1 nay?

(shakes head)


5 posted on 06/21/2011 2:55:23 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Get real. Panetta was the very best we were going to get. He pleasantly surprised at CIA.


6 posted on 06/21/2011 2:55:37 PM PDT by jimfree (In 2012 Sarah Palin will have more quality executive experience than Barack Obama.)
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To: Hawk720

Oh isn’t it great? This guy has extensive communist ties.

If this doesn’t prove that ‘they’ are all behind crashing our country I don’t know what else does.

THESE BASTARDS, REPUBLICANS INCLUDED, are crashing us INTENTIONALLY.

Please forgive my language.


7 posted on 06/21/2011 2:58:08 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman
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To: Hawk720

BUT BUT BUT... Rand Paul just as big a FLAKE as his daddy!


8 posted on 06/21/2011 2:59:20 PM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: jimfree; All

He appears to be much better than his boss. That might not be saying a lot, given Obama, but in this radical left administration Leon Panetta stands out as more like an old school Democrat.


9 posted on 06/21/2011 3:00:09 PM PDT by txrangerette ("...HOLD TO THE TRUTH; SPEAK WITHOUT FEAR." - Glenn Beck)
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To: Hawk720

W...T...F... ?!?!?!?


10 posted on 06/21/2011 3:01:33 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: NormsRevenge

I agree.

Is there something in the Senate drinking fountains that dissolves GOP backbone?


11 posted on 06/21/2011 3:02:52 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Hawk720

When you have been relented to a barrage of Stalins, Zinovievs and Trotskys, a Bukharin might look pretty good.


12 posted on 06/21/2011 3:03:49 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Hawk720

Does our Repub Leadership read anything besides their own PR releases?


13 posted on 06/21/2011 3:06:47 PM PDT by cricket (Osama - NOT made in the USA. . . .and Obama, not madhttp://atlasshrugs2000e in the USA either.. .)
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To: Hawk720
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.

Can there be anymore doubt about how bad this is.

14 posted on 06/21/2011 3:08:16 PM PDT by The Cajun (Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Rush, Hannity......Nuff said.)
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To: Don Corleone
When the entire senate votes for a known Communist sympathizer it is going to take more than an election to straighten this nation out

True. Hardly anyone understands the extent of our betrayal or the depth of the corruption of our alleged representatives. Feweer still care to contemplate the fire and blood necessary to reclaim and restore our Republic.

15 posted on 06/21/2011 3:08:32 PM PDT by Noumenon ("One man with courage is a majority." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Hawk720

Well respected he may be and I make no value judgment on that but ... were there hearings? was there any attempt to solicit his views on the MANY kinetic actions we have under way? on DADT? on downsizing the military? WAS THERE ANY ATTEMPT TO GET AN IDEA OF WTF IS GOING ON IN LIBYA by using the lever of this nomination?


16 posted on 06/21/2011 3:10:15 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (From her lips to the voters' ears: Debbie Wasserman Schultz: "We own the economy" June 15, 2011)
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To: Outlaw Woman

Really?

He stood up for the CIA interrogators that Holder wants to pursue as criminals.

I think this vote is based on what Republicans in DC think of Panetta’s performance at CIA.

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 and believe me, they are legion. Recently we stopped a judicial appointment with a judicial filibuster in the Senate...an unheard of step by Republicans. This was a very young, radical leftist judge who was being fast tracked to the Supreme Court.

What’s with your type? Do you live in a time warp? Panetta has been around for years and years and years, then he was confirmed as, and has served as, the CIA director. To act like this is some new thing and that he’s not a known quantity in high office, is just ridiculous.

No, I wouldn’t have picked him for any jobs, but I’m a conservative Republican. We’re fortunate someone no worse than Panetta is placed in these top security posts, until we can get rid of this administration.


17 posted on 06/21/2011 3:10:15 PM PDT by txrangerette ("...HOLD TO THE TRUTH; SPEAK WITHOUT FEAR." - Glenn Beck)
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To: Hawk720
Am I to understand not one “DAMN” Republican raised questions about this Marxist Hack becoming Sec Def???
Just another example of the disconnect between Reality and those idiots living in Washington D.C. aka “The Twilight Zone”.
I can't believe that Rand Paul voted for this idiot.
18 posted on 06/21/2011 3:10:40 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: albie

“Anybody know why this happened?”

Runner up was Van Jones?


19 posted on 06/21/2011 3:12:26 PM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Hawk720

This should tell you what side our government is on. Hint: It’s not ours.


20 posted on 06/21/2011 3:17:29 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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