Resistance is futile... we'll filibuster.

[devil_ad_vocate]

http://www.wane.com/dpp/news/indiana/coats-wont-vote-to-confirm-hagel
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/31/marco-rubio-chuck- ( Read more... )

Comments

[kylinrouge]

I'm curious what they have against Hagel that they didn't against Hillary freaking Clinton.

[a_new_machine]

How is Hillary relevant? He's up for SecDef, not SecState...

[kylinrouge]

Ah, I see. Who was the previous SecDef?

[a_new_machine]

Leon Panetta.

[anfalicious]

Panetta sounds like a tasty snack.

[rick_day]

Hagel would not drink the Iraq kool aid and, like Cynthia McKinney, called the situation for what it was, a major fuckup.

One of the freshman female committee senators who was from Hagle's state asked him "is it true he was left of Obama?" because he endorsed her democratic challenger in the election.
This is all pure political payback, of the worse kind.

[the_rukh]

To be fair there's a whole lot of room left of Obama.

[dwer]

like all of it.

[rick_day]

Oh I'm sure the honest answer to that is "yup". Obama is a Center-Right corporatist.

Hagel is a "classic liberal": right of most liberals but left of center.

[rick_day]

But that is not the point; the question is moot, off topic and mean spirited.