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Hagel wins confirmation to lead Pentagon (Cochran, Johanns Shelby, Paul voted YES)
Wash Post ^ | 2/26/13 | Paul Kane

Posted on 02/26/2013 2:49:51 PM PST by jimbo123

Chuck Hagel won confirmation Tuesday to become defense secretary over objections to his views on Middle East security and the administration’s handling of an attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya.

On a 58 to 41 vote, the Senate confirmed the former GOP senator as four Republicans joined 54 Democrats in approving Hagel, ending a nearly two-month battle that included an unprecedented filibuster against the nominee.

The four Republican senators voting in favor were Thad Cochran (Miss.), Mike Johanns (Neb.), Richard C. Shelby (Ala.) and Rand Paul (Ky.). All 41 no votes came from Republicans.

The vote marked a foreign policy victory for President Obama,

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To: jimbo123

Rand Paul noted yes? I can’t believe it.


21 posted on 02/26/2013 3:08:43 PM PST by jersey117
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To: TexasCajun

There’s this crowd of libertarians who like to pretend they don’t hate jews


22 posted on 02/26/2013 3:09:10 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: jimbo123

C’mon pubbies...ask me for money. Ask me for support. If we don’t vote pubbie we get rats, socialists, progressives, commies.

We get them if we do vote for you clowns!

Rand Paul...suck my nose. The entire pubbie party can suck my nose.

You don’t negotiate with people whose agenda is based on two steps forward, one step back!

Jackwagons one and all!


23 posted on 02/26/2013 3:09:17 PM PST by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts bolt the Constitution together as the loose screws of the Left fall out!)
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To: jimbo123

Congratulations, America. You have been had.


24 posted on 02/26/2013 3:09:17 PM PST by bergmeid (I told you so - now pass the ammo.)
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To: TexasCajun

There’s this crowd of libertarians who like to pretend they don’t hate jews


25 posted on 02/26/2013 3:09:24 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: jimbo123

“Rand Paul is a Jew-hater, just like his father”.

And a military hater. His politics are 100% a carbon copy of the old man, but he had to tone it down to win the KY senate race. He still tries to fool people into thinking he’s not like the old man. BS. Rand Paul is Ron Paul Jr. He’s an isolationist who thinks the US causes all the world’s problems because of our meddling in other countries affairs.


26 posted on 02/26/2013 3:10:54 PM PST by NKP_Vet
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To: dfwgator
>>>Whatever. Not a dime’s worth of difference anymore between the two parties. So why even bother.

I'm not. I'm DONE. The GOP is complaining about the impact of sequester....which is INSANE. Even THEY can't stomach any cuts.

I am also DONE having a discussion about "you can't split the vote...the dems will win "

GOOD. I'd rather get to the collapse faster than slower. It gives me time to rebuild this country while I can still have some living to do.

27 posted on 02/26/2013 3:12:23 PM PST by NELSON111
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To: jimbo123
"Rand Paul is a Jew-hater, just like his father."

Everyone knows that Iran has threatened many times to destroy our USA, too, along with exporting weapons and training to Afghanistan against our military forces. He doesn't really like America much, either.


28 posted on 02/26/2013 3:13:00 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: NKP_Vet

29 posted on 02/26/2013 3:13:51 PM PST by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

Rand must have believed some of the shoot his father blabbed about the Joos at the dinner table.


30 posted on 02/26/2013 3:14:37 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Impy

I guess they got the warning. Remember how many of them voted to confirm Kerry?


31 posted on 02/26/2013 3:14:46 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: upchuck

The military is now just a putrid Petri dish for social experimentation. The Joint Chiefs aren’t worth the powder to blow them up. Literally. There is no one left to protect the Constitution...not the military, not the politicians, and certainly not the voters.


32 posted on 02/26/2013 3:14:58 PM PST by clintonh8r (Happy to be represented by Lt. Col. Allen West)
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To: jimbo123

A punk running the Pentagon. I guess it fits.


33 posted on 02/26/2013 3:16:05 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Progressive, Marxist liberals do not evolve, they morph into fascists.)
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To: jimbo123

Both of my Senators voted against this traitor.


34 posted on 02/26/2013 3:16:05 PM PST by lormand (A Government who robs Peter to pay Paul, will always have the support of Paul)
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To: dfwgator
"Not a dime’s worth of difference anymore between the two parties."

Was thinking about that last night. Before election, father-in-law asked me who I was voting for. He wanted a knee-jerk REPUBLICAN from me but I pretty much told him what you posted.

Quizical reaction from f-i-l.

35 posted on 02/26/2013 3:16:27 PM PST by hummingbird
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To: jimbo123; mickie
Rubio held firm.

Looks like he's the only cheese left standing alone among the young bucks we had high hopes for....Rand, Ryan among them.

I still have hopes for the young guy with the steely eyes and the funky haircut....mental block at the moment on his name.

Leni

36 posted on 02/26/2013 3:16:41 PM PST by MinuteGal
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To: jimbo123
we are at the bottom of the barrel and still reaching. soooooo sick
37 posted on 02/26/2013 3:18:24 PM PST by easternsky
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

Yeah. That one is messimg with my head.


38 posted on 02/26/2013 3:20:17 PM PST by MestaMachine (Sometimes the smartest man in the room is standing in the midst of imbeciles.)
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To: NoLibZone

Influential in the media like Matt Drudge, Andrew Breitbart, Mark Levin, Michael Savage, Michael Medved, Dennis Prager, David Horowitz?

Or maybe William F. Buckley’s partner Frank Meyer, or Ralph de Toledano? Murray Rothbard?


39 posted on 02/26/2013 3:20:45 PM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto

It’s hard to reason with Ron Paul’s cult of Jew-haters.


40 posted on 02/26/2013 3:23:22 PM PST by jimbo123
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