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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Yes, I am chagrined. I don’t believe he did that. This whole Hagel thing has proven the GOP in the Senate are a bunch of worthless political hacks. And it’s on display for the world to see.
Sh*t, we deserve to lose.
Thad Cochran (Miss.), Mike Johanns (Neb.), Richard C. Shelby (Ala.) and Rand Paul (Ky.), traitors all.
Disgusting.
the public was MCCAINED.
Grahma was playing the shell game all along with the bs of bengazi.
The senate country club must fall.
Ordinarily so, but something tells me we have much farther to fall.
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Rand Paul’s son was arrested by TSA for several infractions at an airport not long ago. Maybe this makes those fed charges go away.
– Kentucky Senator Rand Paul said his support for a filibuster against Defense
Secretary Chuck Hagel never meant that he would vote against Hagel’s confirmation.
“I voted no because I wanted more information and I think that part of what the
Senate does is try to get information about the nominees,” Paul told reporters in the
basement of the Capitol after Hagel’s confirmation Tuesday. “I’ve said all along
that I give the president some prerogative in choosing his political appointees.”
“There are many things I disagree with Chuck Hagel on, there are many things I
disagree with John Kerry on, there are very few things I agree with the president on,
but the president gets to choose political appointees,” Paul said.
Asked if he ever got the information he wanted about Hagel, Paul said that he hadn’t.
“....shell game all along with the bs of Benghazi.”
I saw that coming, but I kept hoping I was wrong.
Rand voting against cloture but for the nomination doesn’t make much sense to me, but since when do Paulistinians make any sense?
I have been getting that “Quizzical Look” from Republican family, and friends for quite some time now. LOL!
“Fortunately for Israel, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob reads all the telegrams. Not so good for America though...”
No kidding.
That’s politics, but I wished he’d voted no. I don’t remember who said it, but the quote is, “that’s probably the best we will get out of this administration”.
Well, other than that amnesty thing.
"Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"
In the run-up to tonight’s vote to confirm former Sen. Hagel as secretary of defense, Sen. Paul voted twice against cloture on the nomination, because he agreed with many of his colleagues that there were questions that needed to be answered about the president’s nominee," Paul spokeswoman Moira Bagley told Yahoo News. "As he has said before, the president should be entitled to some leeway on his political appointments. That is why Sen. Paul voted in favor of Sen. John Kerry, with whom he largely disagrees on foreign policy, to serve as secretary of state, and that is why he voted for final passage of the nomination of Sen. Hagel this evening, with whom he also disagrees on a number of issues."
Um, you need to take your anti-semetic cartoons and Jew hating propaganda somewhere else. Observant, ie religious Jews like the ones pictured in your “cartoon” are politically CONSERVATIVE. The liberals are the majority, yes, but there are plenty of us Orthodox here on FR, and we will not tolerate ignoramuses like you. Take a hike idiot.
(montag’s wife)
I AGREE. EXCELLANT OBSERVATION ...and very well said, in a reasonable but pointed manner.
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Funny thing! So did mine.
I love how Cruz has Cornyn voting conservative. Cornyn used to vote with McCain and Graham but all of a sudden he does what Cruz does.
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