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Leon Panetta clears Senate 100-0
Politico ^ | 06/21/2011 | Scott Wong

Posted on 06/21/2011 2:50:15 PM PDT by Hawk720

With little fanfare or controversy, the Senate on Tuesday unanimously confirmed Leon Panetta as the next Defense secretary as a debate rages in Washington over the cost and scope of military operations abroad.

Panetta, President Barack Obama’s CIA director, succeeds Robert Gates, who has led the Pentagon since late 2006 and is retiring at the end of the month.

Panetta’s confirmation comes just a day before Obama’s major address on the Afghanistan war in which he is expected to announce he’ll withdraw all 33,000 “surge” troops from the region by the end of 2012. In addition to the troop drawdown, Panetta will have to contend with lawmakers on Capitol Hill who are seeking to restrict Obama’s military operations in Libya.

The 100-0 vote revealed how well respected Panetta is on both sides of the aisle. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) called it a “home-run choice,” saying the president made a “very wise decision.”

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cia; gates; panetta; panettadod
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To: txrangerette

Not to mention he is a Clinton guy and he ran the CIA.

Who knows what he knows.


41 posted on 06/21/2011 3:56:29 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Sarah Palin, the only candidate to be vetted by the NY Times, the Washington Post and NBC.)
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To: Hawk720

With this kind of acclamation in this atmosphere, one has to ask, is it what Panetta has on the Senate or what the GOP has on Panetta?


42 posted on 06/21/2011 4:01:26 PM PDT by Steamburg (The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

At least I see you get it. What is a “communist” these days? Isn’t the word “GLOBALIST” These criminals are new world order...globalists following agenda 21. Time to get out of the dem/rep paradiegm folks! Rep or dem is all the same. How many elections going back and forth and no changes in the direction of this country will it take for you to wake up? They are all working together to further erode our nation, in order to carry out the globalist agenda. They have stolen trillions of our money,and have created a police state in order to keep us in line.


43 posted on 06/21/2011 4:15:00 PM PDT by Clovis_Skeptic (The answer to 1984 is 1776!)
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To: Carl Vehse

Backbone? GOP? What are you talking about?


44 posted on 06/21/2011 4:17:20 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Clovis_Skeptic

Communist, fascist, leftist and other labels are just variations on the theme of statism or collectivism where the group stands above the individual.


45 posted on 06/21/2011 4:24:36 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Hawk720

The senate approves of communists 100 to 0. How unexpected.

The journey down the 1.5 gallon federally mandated crapper is accelerating.

Flush flush flush. Tick tock.


46 posted on 06/21/2011 4:25:09 PM PDT by glock rocks (Crouch as low as possible to the floor and cover your head with your hands.)
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To: Hawk720

There is no real Republicans in the Senate.


47 posted on 06/21/2011 4:26:36 PM PDT by bmwcyle (It is Satan's fault)
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To: Hawk720

I think the GOP caucus looked at Leon and asked themselves, “If we block him, keeping in mind who’s appointing him, could it get any worse?”. And answered themselves, “YES IT CAN!”


48 posted on 06/21/2011 4:29:50 PM PDT by RichInOC (Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
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To: Outlaw Woman

No need to get snippy with me. I fully understand the gravity of the situation. If I didn’t try to make light of things at times, I’d probably try to go out in a blaze of glory.


49 posted on 06/21/2011 4:36:48 PM PDT by thecabal (Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority.)
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To: thecabal

I’m sorry tc.


50 posted on 06/21/2011 4:44:52 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman
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To: Outlaw Woman

No worries. I understand your frustration quite well. It’s hard to believe that the US as we understood it has not existed for quite a long time.


51 posted on 06/21/2011 4:47:41 PM PDT by thecabal (Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority.)
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To: txrangerette

Does the phrase good cop/ bad cop routine mean anything to you? That’s what this dog and pony show sound like to me.


52 posted on 06/21/2011 5:12:26 PM PDT by DarkWaters ("Deception is a state of mind --- and the mind of the state" --- James Jesus Angleton)
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To: thecabal

ty..I’m rattled lately and tend to be somewhat defensive (or offensive...depending the end of the spectrum one is on) and just do not have much humor left.


53 posted on 06/21/2011 5:13:21 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman
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To: Hawk720

Is he a member of CPUSA, a Trotskite, or Maoist? Or is everyone we don’t like a “Communist”? Is O.J. Simpson a Communist?


54 posted on 06/21/2011 5:15:31 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Hawk720
we're...
55 posted on 06/21/2011 5:30:50 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Hawk720

Is this old commie fool trying to get the Guinness record for most different cabinet posts?


56 posted on 06/21/2011 6:21:36 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Wanna learn humility? Become a Pittsburgh Pirates fan!)
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To: txrangerette; Outlaw Woman; central_va

>>> If you have a working cell in your brain, you wouldn’t attack the best Obama’s administration has offered up. You save your fire for the ones that are so unspeakably horrible

Common sense is less and less welcome. But it was a good try. They didn’t like it any better when I less eloquently made the same point on a later thread.

>>> IBTZ

txrangerette
Since Jul 10, 2001

central_va
Since Sep 18, 2007

Be less the fool.


57 posted on 06/21/2011 11:50:37 PM PDT by tlb
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To: Hawk720
100-0

The Politburo has spoken.


58 posted on 06/22/2011 12:11:57 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Tea Party: 'Give us our country back.' - GOP: 'Give us our power back.' Two very different things..)
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To: tlb

?


59 posted on 06/22/2011 1:07:23 AM PDT by Outlaw Woman
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To: tlb
Mind clarifying yourself on that post? Of all the posts that speak against this man, mine was singled out because? And you seem to support that. Interesting.
60 posted on 06/22/2011 1:16:06 AM PDT by Outlaw Woman
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