If the GOP filabusters Hagel does that mean we get a Democrat as SecDef? and who?

[TeamPooka]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/02/04/mcconnell-senate-gop-could-filibuster-hagel/

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Saturday that there’s a chance Republicans will filibuster former Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel’s nomination as secretary of defense.

“Sen. Hagel did not do a very good job before the Armed Services committee,” McConnell told Kentucky reporters. (Hagel struggled in the Senate committee hearing, appearing unprepared for aggressive questions about Iran, Israel and nuclear weapons.) “I think the opposition to him is intensifying. Whether that means he will end up having to achieve 60 votes or 51 is not clear yet.” McConnell did not say how he planned to vote.

A filibuster against Hagel would be unprecedented. A Cabinet nominee has never been defeated by filibuster, although nominees have been voted down by a majority (John Tower was the first in three decades) or pulled over scandal or opposition (Tom Daschle, Bernard Kerik).....

[n2doc]

1. Dennis Kucinich is available...

[Hard Assets]

2. People have said Wesley Clark...

and I really think he's probably the better choice than Hagel, based on his experience.

Is he even eligible for this position? He certainly qualifies.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

4. You want a general running the DOD?

I'd much prefer the grunt, myself.

[libtodeath]

3. Russ Feingold would be perfect.

[Sherman A1]

5. Possibly, however

I don't think it will happen.

[reteachinwi]

6. Max Cleland

In a memoir free of bitterness but frank about the costs of being a soldier, Max Cleland describes with love the ties America’s soldiers forge with one another, along with the disillusionment many of them experience when they come home.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2009/10/02/heart-of-a-patriot-how-i-found-the-courage-to-survive-vietnam-walter-reed-and-karl-rove-by-max-cleland/

http://www.democracynow.org/2004/3/23/the_white_house_has_played_cover