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February 27, 2013
Like His Father ( Israel hater Ron Paul), Rand Paul Votes With Democrats to Confirm Obama’s Anti-Israel Pick Chuck Hagel as Defense Secretary 58-41
Like His Father ( Israel hater Ron Paul), Rand Paul Votes With Democrats to Confirm Obama’s Anti-Israel Pick Chuck Hagel as Defense Secretary 58-41
The US Senate voted to confirm Chuck Hagel as Defense Secretary today. The vote was 58-41 with Republicans Shelby from Alabama, Cochran from Mississippi, Rand Paul from Kentucky and Johanns from Nebraska joining Democrats in support of Hagel.
The Senate voted 58-41 Tuesday to confirm Chuck Hagel as the new Defense secretary to succeed Leon Panetta, thus ending a contentious battle over his nomination.
Senators voted 71-27 earlier Tuesday afternoon to end debate on President Obama’s nomination of Hagel, a Republican former senator from Nebraska.
Hagel will immediately inherit a budget crisis. Last week, the Pentagon announced it plans to furlough the majority of its 800,000 civilian employees to help meet a $46 billion shortfall caused by automatic spending cuts that begin March 1 and its stopgap budget that prevents shifting funds to urgent needs.
The contentious nomination process will not prevent Hagel from dealing with Congress, George Little, a Pentagon spokesman, said after the vote. Hagel is a “team player” whose interest in cooperation will extend to Congress, Little said.
Hagel has been briefed on issues facing the Pentagon and will be ready to start work immediately, Little said.
Wild Thing's comment.....................
Bye bye Rand Paul, you can join your buddy Chris Christie as a non presidential candidate forever. No excuses for this BS vote for Hagel.
Posted by Wild Thing at February 27, 2013 04:50 AM
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This is beyond my comprehension. I can not figure out a reason why Paul or the other three voted for Hagel.
Posted by: TomR, armed in Texas at February 27, 2013 11:02 AM
..I am shocked and disappointed by Rand Paul's vote for Hagel. Is some sort of backroom deal in play ? As the late J.R. Ewing said, "once the integrity is gone, the rest is easy ". Meanwhile, Dear Leader is on the way to winning the trifecta of anti-American surrender monkeys in the foreign affairs section of his cabinet. First we have Jean Kerrie who bemoans the "right of Americans to be stupid" despite the fact that his academic test scores are lower than those of GW Bush, who the lefties believe has a lower I.Q. than a chimp. He also says that "globull warming" is a greater threat than the Muslim Brotherhood Than we have turncoat former Republicrat Chuck "hate da joos" Hagel who played stupid and forgetful throughout his hearing so he would not have to lie. Finally, we have Muslim convert Brennan for head of the CIA who refers to Jerusalem by its Arabic name, al-Quods. Obama is a traitor who wants to see our country exposed to threats from Islamist terrorism...
Posted by: Willy at February 27, 2013 01:14 PM
