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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsun rep rice out and hagel in?
oh well -- maybe someday dems will actually WIN.
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un rep rice out and hagel in? (Original Post)
xchrom
Dec 2012
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immoderate
(20,885 posts)1. Hagel is mostly mentioned for Defense.
Not unusual to appoint a Republican. Clinton had Cohen.
My impression of Hagel is that he is a crook.
--imm
xchrom
(108,903 posts)2. My general feeling is that dems don't need repukes
For anything.
Of course hiring a repuke helps prove a dem is as pro-MIC as any repuke.
progressoid
(49,999 posts)4. No kidding.
There are plenty of qualified Dems for these positions. Don't understand why we have to continue to look to the right.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)3. He bought a voting machine company....
and then got elected to the United States Senate. Doesn't sound at all crooked to me.