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No surprise: Hagel wins cloture vote easily

Allahpundit — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:21:19 +0000

Confirmation next.

I told you the yays would be closer to 70 than to 60. Final tally: 71-27. You didn’t seriously think these losers would go to the mat to block a nominee just because he’s manifestly unqualified, did you? Eighteen Republicans voted yes, according to Fox’s Chad Pergram. The roll of glory: R’s voting to end [...]

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Louis Farrakhan: You know, when he talks about the Jewish lobby, Chuck Hagel sounds a little like me

Allahpundit — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:41:38 +0000

Endorsements.

The cloture vote’s tomorrow. Confirmation seems a fait accompli. Is there no man in all the land who, through his sheer odiousness, can stop this train with an anti-endorsement — a sort of demonus ex machina? Perhaps there is, my friends. Perhaps there is. “Now wait,” Farrakhan told the crowd. “He said this to Aaron [...]

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The 60th vote: Republican Richard Shelby to vote for cloture on Hagel; Update: Deb Fischer too?

Allahpundit — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 19:01:29 +0000

“He’s probably as good as we’re going to get.”

And so, after days of accusations about what Hagel did or didn’t say at Rutgers Israeli control of the State Department, and despite the nominee’s refusal to let reporters pick through his archives, this guy’s actually gaining votes in the Senate rather than losing them. I understand the argument that the president deserves deference in [...]

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Harry Reid: We don’t have the votes to break a GOP filibuster on Hagel; Update: Senate to vote on Hagel today

Allahpundit — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:41:17 +0000

Yet.

Don’t get too excited. As I’m writing this, CNN is interrupting its round-the-clock coverage of Marco Rubio drinking water to report a sellout compromise in the offing: Sources in both parties tell me compromise in the works to delay vote on Hagel, but make it a 51 vote threshold not 60. Deal not done yet [...]

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Franken: I’m not so sure about the assault-weapons ban; Update: “I also support the principle that we should reinstate a ban on assault weapons”

Ed Morrissey — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:11:10 +0000

Worried?

As Instapundit writes, “If Al Franken is undecided …” Senator Al Franken spoke in Rochester in support of universal background checks and magazine-capacity limits, but refused to endorse the centerpiece of Barack Obama’s gun-control push yesterday: On the day that President Obama proposed a sweeping package of gun-control measures, U.S. Sen. Al Franken signaled his [...]

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Video: Ayotte pledges a hold on a Rice nomination

Ed Morrissey — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:01:56 +0000

"Certainly, she misled the American public."

Senator Kelly Ayotte appears to have taken the lead on Republican efforts to stop President Obama from nominating Susan Rice to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. Her colleagues Lindsey Graham and John McCain came out of the same meeting with Rice as Ayotte even more critical than before, but Ayotte went the farthest [...]

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Legislators run for the exits on SOPA/PIPA after protests

Ed Morrissey — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:20:20 +0000

Paying the PIPA on Tuesday?

In darkness, there is apparently much sunlight. As a number of Internet sites either went dark or protested the proposed anti-piracy bills circulating in Congress, a number of sponsors ran for cover, reports The Hill: GOP Sens. Roy Blunt (Mo.), Orrin Hatch (Utah), John Boozman (Ark.) and Marco Rubio (Fla.) dropped their support for the [...]

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