Obama deserves Hegel, and there’s no reason why Republicans should rescue Obama by filibustering the nomination. All vote against it? Hell yes. But don’t filibuster.

America voted for Obama. They deserve to get Hegel, too.

With the nuclear threats from Iran and North Korea, and the unrest in Egypt, Syria, and Libya, and some of the dangerous trends in Russia, we need someone who will not dismantle the military.

After the attack on the consulate in Benghazi, it is obvious that the military intervention in Libya was botched, since nobody bothered to coordinate with the anti-Gadhafi “rebels” to know whether they could govern the country once Gadhafi was ousted.

We can’t afford a SecDef who would botch a future intervention with Iran, Syria, North Korea, or elsewhere…

lmao at republicans….hate Obama so much they’d reject a REPUBLICAN for a nomination

sigh

nonpartisan

So, basically what you’re saying is you’d vote for Fidel Castro if he was the dem candidate. But we knew that already, lol.

I would enjoy a Ted Cruz, Rand Paul Filibuster & pipe it into every school classroom from K-College in America.

workingclass artist on February 5, 2013 at 12:00 PM

Getting the permission of the teachers’ union to do so would be quite a feat.

lmao at republicans….hate Obama so much they’d reject a REPUBLICAN for a nomination

sigh

nonpartisan on February 5, 2013 at 11:40 AM

Gibbs must hate Obama too. If you were actually nonpartisan, you’d have a problem with how terrible the hearing went. But you’re just another Obama panty-thrower that signs off on anything he does.

This is like watching a player on the other team try to make a basket in his own goal and you run up and foul him.

The reality is that the Defense Dept. doesn’t do anything major without the express written consent of the Commander in Chief.

Republicans need to stick to budget issues right now and chalk the Defense Secretary nomination up to a “We don’t want to stand in the way of the President picking who he thinks the best man for the job is.” And then criticize the heck out of Hagel once he is in office.

You do realize Rumsfeld and Cheney are dirty words in 50% of American households and have significantly contributed to the current belief by low information voters that Republicans are evil warmongers, right? Well I want to take the “Everyone in this administration is an idiot!” card back from the Left. And then play it everywhere I can.

I think Hagel will do a nice job embarassing the Obama administration (hasn’t he already?). Why would I want to stop that? – rhombus on February 5, 2013 at 12:20 PM

Because if he is confirmed he would be a damn outright danger to this country. Not that Obama is not already a danger to this country, but we are stuck with him for the next four years.

… This guy didn’t get this stupid overnight.

DanMan on February 5, 2013 at 12:04 PM

…No. It appears he worked on it over many years.

Our senior Nebraska senator, Mike Johanns, revealed over the weekend that he intends to support Hagel. That’ll provide cover for several more Republican senators to join him. Johanns insisted that he wasn’t just voting for Hagel because they’re long-time buddies, but because Chuck assured him privately that he was committed to Israel and to America and her allies. Anybody else buying that load? Yeah, me either. Johanns also voted to continue arming Egypt and voted to confirm John Kerry. Seems like the DC ‘go along to get along’ crowd has a new member. Extremely disappointing, especially after ridding ourselves of Benedict Nelson.

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I hate to be so cynical, but there really ain’t anything that can be done other than keep telling the people how stupid Hagel is. If it’s done after he’s SecDef, so be it.

Steve Tsouloufis on February 5, 2013 at 11:47 AM

My emotional response is to agree with everything you said in your post.

My logical response is to oppose everything Barky wants.

Obama needs incompetents around him. It makes him appear ‘smart’.

Schadenfreude on February 5, 2013 at 11:29 AM

That’s how insufferable narcissists work. It’s all about them.
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Who is next on the list after him?

tomas on February 5, 2013 at 11:27 AM

Maxine Waters

Schadenfreude on February 5, 2013 at 11:28 AM

Maxine is in Congress FOR LIFE… SecDef has an expiration date..

It really doesn’t matter WHO is running Defense, since the money is getting cut with a meat cleaver…

The democrat of “Butter votes, guns (military) don’t” has come home to roost…

After Carter, Clinton and now Obama, anyone in the military voting DEMOCRAT needs to check into sick bay and schedule their “cranial rectal extraction” procedure…

I hate to be so cynical, but there really ain’t anything that can be done other than keep telling the people how stupid Hagel is. If it’s done after he’s SecDef, so be it.

lmao at republicans….hate Obama so much they’d reject a REPUBLICAN for a nomination

sigh

nonpartisan on February 5, 2013 at 11:40 AM

The guy admitted that he has virtually NO understanding of the military.
That should be enough to dislike him for SecDef.
Obama would like for your argument to take hold, but Hagel blew it up at his hearing.
The guy is a dud.

Who is next on the list after him?

tomas on February 5, 2013 at 11:27 AM

Bill Ayers