Sen Chuck Hagel: "DISGUSTED" with Republican Party: ‘An Astounding Lack Of Responsible Leadership’

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Hagel blasted GOP leadership for their “irresponsible actions” during the debt ceiling debacle, noting that “I think about some of the presidents we’ve had on my side of the aisle — Ronald Reagan, George Bush Sr., go right through them, Eisenhower — they would be stunned.”

“Disgusted” with the debt ceiling negotiations, Hagel called it “an astounding lack of responsible leadership by many in the Republican party, and I say that as a Republican.” “Does anyone not believe what’s happened here the last couple weeks in the market was not a complete, direct result of the lack of confidence that came out of that folly, that embarrassment?”

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/31/309366/former-gop-senator-chuck-hagel-republican-party-has-an-astounding-lack-of-responsible-leadership/