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Hagel sinking
Washington Post ^
| 1/31/13
| Jennifer Rubin
Posted on 01/31/2013 3:42:34 PM PST by jimbo123
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posted on
01/31/2013 3:42:37 PM PST
by
jimbo123
To: jimbo123
>> It is unclear whether he was not prepped properly, whether he refused to be coached or whether he simply isnt bright.
They’re not mutually exclusive.
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posted on
01/31/2013 3:46:46 PM PST
by
Nervous Tick
(Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
To: jimbo123
They shot Kerry through there like Grease through a Goose, now they attack Hagel.
Not that I like Hagel, but I cannot stand a traitor and a Glorifed Stolen Glory, band aid wounded, war criminal.
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posted on
01/31/2013 3:47:14 PM PST
by
Venturer
To: jimbo123
I’m beginning to think Hagel is a red herring. Obama has trotted him out knowing he would be shot down. By congress doing this, it will be much harder to shoot down whoever is next. That will be the person that Obama “really” wants in the job. Should be very revealing.....
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posted on
01/31/2013 3:48:37 PM PST
by
snoringbear
(E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
To: jimbo123
Hagel ...(was) unable to explain himself... does not radiate the confidence nor project the intelligence the job demands... he was not prepped properly...he refused to be coached ... he simply isnt bright. So he and 0bama are a perfect match!
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posted on
01/31/2013 3:51:31 PM PST
by
Michael.SF.
(Obama lied, Stevens died.)
To: jimbo123
I was surprised at first that I saw nothing objectionable and, in fact, I thought he did quite well during (prepared) initial statement. The surprise appearance of John Warner and Sam Nunn with their seemingly sincere endorsement of Hagel touched me, as a fellow Vietnam Vet. I had to leave my boss’s office after the first hour to do some actual work, and apparently it went downhill from there. The media certainly are playing it as a failure tonight.
But you know what? I’ll bet he gets confirmed. This ad,imistration likely had every vote counted before they ever nominated him. That’s what they do.
TC
To: snoringbear
Or, more sinisterly, Obama can keep sending up non-starters so that the Defense Department keeps getting run by under-secretaries reporting to unconfirmed czars for as long as possible.
This way, Obama can blame sequestration on Congress because they didn't give him a cabinet member.
-PJ
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posted on
01/31/2013 3:51:50 PM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: jimbo123
He was a stumbling bumbling uninformed idiot today.
Hopefully he won’t become number two under Obummer in charge of the defense of our country.
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posted on
01/31/2013 3:52:17 PM PST
by
jazusamo
("Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -- Adam Smith)
To: jimbo123
“A long time Capitol Hill Democrat astounded by the hearing tells me ‘It is very clear from the testimony that Sen. Hagel will not be bringing the potato salad to the next Mensa picnic’”
LOL
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posted on
01/31/2013 3:53:26 PM PST
by
forgotten man
(forgotten man)
To: Nervous Tick
Just about par for this administration. He’ll pass with flying colors because competence and experience are job none.
To: snoringbear
That will be the person that Obama really wants in the job.:
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posted on
01/31/2013 3:54:57 PM PST
by
Michael.SF.
(Obama lied, Stevens died.)
To: jimbo123
Freepers have been calling Hagel an idiot for years. Today he was good enough to prove us correct in that assessment.
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posted on
01/31/2013 3:55:11 PM PST
by
pgkdan
( "Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." ~Thomas Jefferson)
To: jimbo123
Its fascinating, actually, to see a nominee of this importance do so poorly.
OTOH watch how quickly it goes from "centrist" Obama nominates a republican to, republican nominated by centrist Obama turns out to be incompetent moron. It opens up the path for a far more radical leftist.
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posted on
01/31/2013 3:56:45 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Nervous Tick
>> It is unclear whether he was not prepped properly, whether he refused to be coached or whether he simply isnt bright.
He's a liberal...All of the above!
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posted on
01/31/2013 3:56:56 PM PST
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: jimbo123
Hagel proves Reagan right: It’s not that our liberal friends are ignorant. It’s just that so much of what they believe is not so.
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posted on
01/31/2013 3:58:13 PM PST
by
y6162
To: jimbo123
If the Democrats wont, Republican senators should save the president and the country from an unqualified and unsuited p(r)ick. Ms Rubin needs a new editor...
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posted on
01/31/2013 4:01:03 PM PST
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Hope and Change has become Attack and Obfuscate.)
To: Venturer
So what makes Kerry acceptable and Hagel unacceptable?
To: snoringbear
Which other names are on the ‘short list’ ?
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posted on
01/31/2013 4:03:08 PM PST
by
traumer
To: y6162
I still say he’s approved. 40 pubbies voted for that fool Kerry. Hagel is a bigger fool, so maybe 10 or 20 pubbies vote no along with half a dozen or so demholes. He passes with 60 I’d bet.
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posted on
01/31/2013 4:03:49 PM PST
by
wny
To: jimbo123
It is very clear from the testimony that Sen. Hagel will not be bringing the potato salad to the next Mensa picnic.Now that's funny stuff.
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posted on
01/31/2013 4:06:13 PM PST
by
BfloGuy
(Money, like chocolate on a hot oven, was melting in the pockets of the people.)
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