Santorum takes up fight against Hagel nomination
Source: AP
BY BY DONNA CASSATA, ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is launching an effort to defeat the nomination of Chuck Hagel to head the Defense Department.
Santorum is a former Senate colleague of Hagels and a fellow Republican. He says in a statement that Hagels, quote, anti-Israel, pro-Iran mindset makes him unqualified for the Pentagon job.
President Barack Obama nominated Hagel on Monday, but he has faced strong opposition from Senate Republicans. Santorum recently led a successful fight to defeat a U.N. treaty on the disabled, convincing several Senate Republicans to oppose ratification.
Supporters of Hagels nomination are also lobbying on his behalf. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell will appear on NBCs Meet the Press on Sunday to argue for the nominee
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Read more: http://www.salon.com/2013/01/10/santorum_takes_up_fight_against_hagel_nomination/
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)truebrit71
(20,805 posts)Should be tons of fun!!!
julian09
(1,435 posts)He pushed Rmoney so far right, Mitt couldn't get back to middle.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)That is all.
blm
(113,061 posts)Real conservatives are an endangered species in the GOP since the NWO interventionist neo-cons took control.
JEB
(4,748 posts)I'm for it. Conversely, if Santorum is for something, then I'm against it. Seems to be a law of Nature. Actully thought that Hagel was a Repuke prick SOB until Santorum raised his nasty little pinhead.
Dollface
(1,590 posts)Apparently he refuses to shut-up when he disagrees with the party so the right-wingers also think he is a prick. That makes me laugh and gesture in their general direction.
JEB
(4,748 posts)that Hagel might be open to Defense cuts and since he is a R it might have a chance. Probably why the neo-cons have their panties in such a twist.
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)I didn't miss anything? As in, who gives a shit what Rick Santorum thinks?
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)underpants
(182,803 posts)The campaign now being waged against Mr. Hagels nomination as secretary of defense is in some ways a relitigation of that decade-old dispute. It is also a dramatic return to the public stage by the neoconservatives whose worldview remains a powerful undercurrent in the Republican Party and in the national debate about the United States relationship with Israel and the Middle East.
This is the neocons worst nightmare because youve got a combat soldier, successful businessman and senator who actually thinks there may be other ways to resolve some questions other than force, said Richard L. Armitage, who broke with the more hawkish members of the Bush team during the Iraq war when he was a deputy to Secretary of State Colin L. Powell.
William Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard, who championed the Iraq invasion and is leading the opposition to Mr. Hagels nomination, says the former senator and his supporters are suffering from neoconservative derangement syndrome.
Id much prefer a secretary of defense who was a more mainstream internationalist not a guy obsessed by how the United States uses its power and would always err on the side of not intervening, he added. Of Mr. Hagel and his allies, Mr. Kristol said, They sort of think we should have just gone away. Kristol seriously just shut up you are exposing your foolishness
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/us/old-foes-lead-charge-against-chuck-hagel.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0&hp
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)as described by the Philadelphia Inquirer.
FreeBC
(403 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)GreenTea
(5,154 posts)Last edited Thu Jan 10, 2013, 09:37 PM - Edit history (1)
The Democrats have 55 senators voting in the democratic caucus -
The Democrats only need fifty senators to approval any Obama nominee -
And the vice- President's vote (if needed) would make 51 votes which is good enough for approval for any Obama nominee!
So fuck-off republicans - You are helpless!!