Key Republicans say Chuck Hagel now likely to be confirmed

The Christian Science Monitor ^ | February 17, 2013 | Brad Knickerbocker

[haffast]

If nothing else, the congressional break for the week of Presidents’ Day is a cooling-off period for the fight over former Sen. Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be secretary of defense.

Questions about President Obama’s handling of the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, which killed four Americans, including the US ambassador – an issue, by the way, which Mr. Hagel had nothing to do with – are being answered to the apparent satisfaction of Republicans … at least to the point where they’re willing to end their de facto filibuster of Hagel’s nomination.

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Sen. Graham, along with Sen. John McCain, led the opposition to Hagel in the Senate Armed Services Committee.

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“The president isn’t done with Benghazi,” McDonough said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday. “He’s demanded of us, since that night, to find out exactly what happened, and to make every reform needed to ensure it does not happen again.”

The politics of the Hagel nomination are obvious to those aware of election cycles – particularly regarding Sen. Graham, who faces reelection next year and the likelihood of a challenge from his right (as did Sen. McCain in 2010).

“Graham's antics have as much to do with events in Columbia, S.C., as with events in Washington,” writes Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank. “His sentiments are no doubt genuine, but the ferocity with which he has been attacking the Obama administration – taking a high-profile role on Benghazi, Susan Rice, Hagel and gun control – are helping him to repel a tea party primary challenge at home.”

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[444Flyer]

Another bumbling fool anti-Semite in the pro Muz BrObama administration. Wow, are we in for it for it according to the Word.:( Gen. 12:3

[Iron Munro]

Key Republicans Say Chuck Hagel Now Likely To Be Confirmed

Spineless RINO Slugs Say Chuck Hagel Now Likely To Be Confirmed

[Rome2000]

We are on the edge of destruction and/or slavery.

Working Americans outside the Beltway are slaves to the Political class from both parties and the federal apparatchiks in DC, as well as the demented degenerate parasites that vote for them.

It's time for class warfare to become a two way street.

Things will begin to turn when we have a right wing from outside DC with leaders who willing to attack the parasites that support the domestic communists and their propagandists in the press and seek out the means and methods to neutralize them.

Then the crony capitalist country clubbers and bluebloods must be dealt with.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

In real terms there are two options open to the Republicans.

The first is to defeat him, really for no other reason than to give Obama a “loss”, to punish him for his other vices. This would cost the Republicans nothing.

The second option is the one they will probably choose, which is to get him to promise them things in such a way that he cannot renege. This has pretty well become meaningless because Obama and his people do not keep promises.

Their rationalization for this is that he used to be a Republican, so he wouldn’t utterly devastate the DOD, like many Democrats would. That’s hooey and they know it.

[Jane Long]

Is the CSM just dreaming/projecting again?

[Colonel_Flagg]

“The president isn’t done with Benghazi,” McDonough said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday. “He’s demanded of us, since that night, to find out exactly what happened

Since he wasn't there.

and to make every reform needed to ensure it does not happen again.”

That would require a new President.

[upchuck]

Linda is sprinting to the right 90 miles an hour. But Linda, those of us in your home state have very long memories. You might want to contemplate the word primaried and all that that means.

Uber RINO Lindsey Ping
"Republican by day, Democrat by night."

Want on or off this ping list?
Just FReepmail me.

[The Cajun]

Boehner: Hey Mitch and Karl, look over there, a bunch of Freepers and tea party hicks waiting for us to do something conservative.

[ZULU]

Heard the rodent pansy on Chris Wallace. Rand Paul was great.

Now Wallace is allowing that idiot Rove to respond to Mark Levin's accurate attack on him on radio last week.

I had to leave before I vomited.

If you are an American conservative, your MOST DANGEROUS enemy is NOT Obama or the people who put him in office. Its the Carl Roves, the Lindsey Grahams, the John McCains, the Chrissie Whitmans, The Bushes, the Christies, etc.

The entire menagerie of frauds, fakes and failures whose only purpose in life is to perpetuate their terms of office by generating NO controversy, taking NO political stands and having NO political philosophies which reflect the beliefs of the majority of their Republican Constituents. They only occupy space and office. Space and office which could be put to better use by candidates like Rubio and Rand Paul.

[FlingWingFlyer]

The Kenyan whips the GOOBers’ @$$e$ AGAIN! Run Johnny, Run! You too Lindsey!

[piasa]

SEPTEMBER 2002 : (SENATOR HAGEL GOES ON TRIP TO IRAQ SPONSORED BY IRAQ OIL FOR FOOD BANDIT SHAKIR AL KHAFAGI) Shakir Al-Khafaji (12 million barrels), a well-connected Detroit-area businessman who led a delegation of anti-war Congressional Democrats to Baghdad in September 2002 and who funded an anti-sanctions documentary produced by former weapons inspector Scott Ritter.
Ritter and Congressional Democrats. Which Congressional Democrats?
2 posted on 10/28/2005 9:36:24 AM PDT by ncountylee | To 1
To: ncountylee
Chuckie Hagel was on that trip.
14 posted on 11/03/2005 9:07:31 AM PST by Eva | To 2
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The Oil for Food scandal has obvious implications for the policy he’s been advocating of subjecting U.S. interests to a Security Council veto. GOP Senator Chuck Hagel is another U.N. booster. If they mean what they say about enhancing the power of the U.N., in Iraq and elsewhere, then they in particular have an obligation to ensure that the world body is both effective and free of corruption. -—— “Oil for Scandal : Where’s Jesse Helms when the U.N. really needs him?,” WSJ Opinion journal, Thursday, March 18, 2004 12:01 a.m. EST

[Optimist]

Voted against him before they voted for him.
ass-hats

[piasa]

Hagel & Lebanon :

What I remember is that Aburdene is a campaign contributor to Hagel through one of his PACs. But if you look further, you will see that Hagel has been part of a bunch of commissions to all parts of the world, and oddly enough the name Aburdene pops up among the other members of the commission. It is my guess that these are all members of the same family. 101 posted on 07/15/2005 6:27:30 PM PDT by Eva | To 98

[piasa]

OCTOBER 28, 2009 WED : (OBAMA INTRODUCES CHUCK HAGEL & DAVID BOREN AS CO-CHAIRMEN OF THE PRESIDENT’S INTELLIGENCE ADVISORY BOARD / PIAB [WHICH WOULD EXPLAIN THE BAD INTELLIGENCE WE SEE LATER ON BENGHAZI?]) SNIPPET: “On Wednesday, President Barack Obama introduced former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel and former Oklahoma Sen. David Boren as co-chairmen of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board.
The goal of the board, Hagel said Wednesday, is to provide “thoughtful, informed and independent advice” to the president regarding America’s intelligence-gathering agencies and how they can best work effectively to collect and share information to make critical decisions.”————“Obama names Hagel co-chairman of intelligence board”, By CORY MATTESON / Lincoln Journal Star | Posted: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 7:45 pmhttp://journalstar.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_9ef29dee-c424-11de-b267-001cc4c002e0.html

[NoGrayZone]

"Why Did McCain Rescue Hagel?"

Because we are now living in the last of days, whether some like it or not.

It is what it is. I once had some kind of hope we could change it, but He knew better (duh!!!).

Prepare is all I can say.

[piasa]

* Elias Aburdene & Joe Wilson : While Wilson was pursuing his foreign investment ventures, he also served as a foreign policy advisor to the 2000 Presidential campaign of Al Gore. A company the Gore family had a long-term relationship with, Occidental Petroleum, shared business interests with Alamoudi-affiliated companies in Africa and the Middle East, and employed as Vice President for Middle East business Odeh Aburdene,24 who shared a complex network of relationships with Rock Creek’s Elias Aburdene and Joseph Wilson—notably, all three contributed to Arab-American Congressional Caucus leader Nick Rahall,25 who supported Muslim lobbying groups linked to terrorists and opposed military action in Iraq.26 Abdurahman Alamoudi also contributed to Rahall, and sat on the steering committee of Arab Americans for Clinton/Gore ‘96 along with his associate James Zogby, who later advised Gore’s 2000 Presidential campaign.27 Wilson had worked as an aide to Gore from 1985 to 1986 and had developed a friendly relationship with him. Wilson says Gore was the first person outside the State Department to contact him expressing support when he was caught in Iraq in the middle of the diplomatic crisis leading up to the Gulf War.——— “What Wilson Didn’t Say About Africa: Joseph Wilson’s Silent Partners ,” via 112 posted on 04/24/2006 2:25:40 PM PDT by Fedora | To 111

[DemforBush]

Well, I’ve been of a mind that the opposition to Hagel was never really about his fitness (or lack thereof) to be SecDef. He just happened to be a convenient bargaining chip to leverage against the administration. Now that they have gotten a bone or two from Obama on Benghazi, Hagel will probably sail through. Graham may vote no just to shore up his support back home. Most of the GOP will probably vote Aye on Hagel, I’d wager, and planned to all along.

I wish I could be less cynical about Beltway politics, especially when it comes to the Senate, but I really can’t anymore.

[Renegade]

We REALLY need an “ Eagle Eye” moment to solve this governmental quagmire.

[hattend]

So which show were we watching?

Dog? Pony? Kibuki? Bread and Circus?

FU John McLame and Linda Graham.

[Sicvee]

With Hagel “in charge” DOD will be on autopilot. Wait—isn’t it already?