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BlueStreak

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8. And just for the record, I have been saying all along Hagel would get

Reply to BlueStreak (Reply #4)

Tue Feb 26, 2013, 06:20 PM

Feb 2013

75 votes. I'm not sure anybody believed me.

This has all been Kabuki theater. There was never any serious doubt about this nomination.

He got 71 votes in the cloture vote. I bet he clears 75 in the actual vote.

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Talking head on MSNBC just said with Hagel's "less than stellar" showing at the hearing, [View all] gateley Feb 2013 OP

Those assholes are trying to ProSense Feb 2013 #1

I agree. They are always trying to write a script and hope Cleita Feb 2013 #2

Oh, hell, he did well enough for a guy who looked like he hadn't slept TwilightGardener Feb 2013 #3

I really hate those morons. BlueStreak Feb 2013 #4

And just for the record, I have been saying all along Hagel would get BlueStreak Feb 2013 #8

Er..58 is the actual vote to confirm. It's over. TwilightGardener Feb 2013 #10

OK. A few backed off after the cloture. BlueStreak Feb 2013 #14

Really, they had to filibuster Hagel to try to get dirt on him, because he TwilightGardener Feb 2013 #9

Eating their own can't be good for an already fractured party BlueStreak Feb 2013 #15

Who's the idiot who said that? Archae Feb 2013 #5

Don't know -- think I've seen him before but didn't catch his name. gateley Feb 2013 #12

It was Peter Beinart n/t slor Feb 2013 #20

Hagel's hearing was a sham AndyA Feb 2013 #6

God I'd have loved to have seen him go "hell yes it was a mistake!" -- I think the MAJORITY of the gateley Feb 2013 #13

Chuck Hagel was stuck in that chair for around 8 hours... nenagh Feb 2013 #7

Much like Obama's debate, though, it's the story in the media afterward that becomes the gateley Feb 2013 #11

Exactly... nenagh Feb 2013 #18

Any talking heads noted the irony that Repukes were against another Repuke? joeybee12 Feb 2013 #16

With Hagel holding the Pentagon purse-strings, I think he'll have strong enough legs. Zen Democrat Feb 2013 #17

Hagel is extremely pro Veteran thelordofhell Feb 2013 #19