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Hagel wins confirmation to lead Pentagon (Cochran, Johanns Shelby, Paul voted YES)
Wash Post ^ | 2/26/13 | Paul Kane

Posted on 02/26/2013 2:49:51 PM PST by jimbo123

Chuck Hagel won confirmation Tuesday to become defense secretary over objections to his views on Middle East security and the administration’s handling of an attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya.

On a 58 to 41 vote, the Senate confirmed the former GOP senator as four Republicans joined 54 Democrats in approving Hagel, ending a nearly two-month battle that included an unprecedented filibuster against the nominee.

The four Republican senators voting in favor were Thad Cochran (Miss.), Mike Johanns (Neb.), Richard C. Shelby (Ala.) and Rand Paul (Ky.). All 41 no votes came from Republicans.

The vote marked a foreign policy victory for President Obama,

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To: MestaMachine

Yes, I am chagrined. I don’t believe he did that. This whole Hagel thing has proven the GOP in the Senate are a bunch of worthless political hacks. And it’s on display for the world to see.

Sh*t, we deserve to lose.


61 posted on 02/26/2013 3:40:39 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (I am a dissident. Will you join me? My name is John....)
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To: jimbo123

Thad Cochran (Miss.), Mike Johanns (Neb.), Richard C. Shelby (Ala.) and Rand Paul (Ky.), traitors all.

Disgusting.


62 posted on 02/26/2013 3:41:06 PM PST by Gator113 ( REGISTER THE DAMN LIBERALS and leave my guns alone!!)
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To: Gator113

the public was MCCAINED.

Grahma was playing the shell game all along with the bs of bengazi.

The senate country club must fall.


63 posted on 02/26/2013 3:42:25 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Cementjungle

Ordinarily so, but something tells me we have much farther to fall.


64 posted on 02/26/2013 3:45:15 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Cyber Liberty

Repost:

Rand Paul’s son was arrested by TSA for several infractions at an airport not long ago. Maybe this makes those fed charges go away.


65 posted on 02/26/2013 3:48:08 PM PST by MestaMachine (Sometimes the smartest man in the room is standing in the midst of imbeciles.)
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To: Rusty0604

http://www.therightscoop.com/obama-won-rand-paul-explains-why-he-voted-for-hagel-nomination/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRightScoop+%28The+Right+Scoop%29

– Kentucky Senator Rand Paul said his support for a filibuster against Defense
Secretary Chuck Hagel never meant that he would vote against Hagel’s confirmation.

“I voted no because I wanted more information and I think that part of what the
Senate does is try to get information about the nominees,” Paul told reporters in the
basement of the Capitol after Hagel’s confirmation Tuesday. “I’ve said all along
that I give the president some prerogative in choosing his political appointees.”

“There are many things I disagree with Chuck Hagel on, there are many things I
disagree with John Kerry on, there are very few things I agree with the president on,
but the president gets to choose political appointees,” Paul said.

Asked if he ever got the information he wanted about Hagel, Paul said that he hadn’t.


66 posted on 02/26/2013 4:01:16 PM PST by deport
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To: longtermmemmory

“....shell game all along with the bs of Benghazi.”

I saw that coming, but I kept hoping I was wrong.


67 posted on 02/26/2013 4:01:29 PM PST by Gator113 ( REGISTER THE DAMN LIBERALS and leave my guns alone!!)
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To: Cyber Liberty; MestaMachine; jersey117; EternalVigilance; AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj; ...

Rand voting against cloture but for the nomination doesn’t make much sense to me, but since when do Paulistinians make any sense?


68 posted on 02/26/2013 4:05:28 PM PST by Impy (All in favor of Harry Reid meeting Mr. Mayhem?)
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To: hummingbird

I have been getting that “Quizzical Look” from Republican family, and friends for quite some time now. LOL!


69 posted on 02/26/2013 4:05:56 PM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! ,)
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To: EternalVigilance

“Fortunately for Israel, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob reads all the telegrams. Not so good for America though...”

No kidding.


70 posted on 02/26/2013 4:08:22 PM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: deport

That’s politics, but I wished he’d voted no. I don’t remember who said it, but the quote is, “that’s probably the best we will get out of this administration”.


71 posted on 02/26/2013 4:14:45 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: MinuteGal
Rubio held firm. Looks like he's the only cheese left standing alone among the young bucks we had high hopes for....Rand, Ryan among them.

Well, other than that amnesty thing.

"Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"

72 posted on 02/26/2013 4:17:55 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Defend life, liberty, private property, national sovereignty, security, & borders. Keep the oath.)
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To: Impy
I'm not a Paulbot, but I remember a few times when Ron Paul would vote against a bill he started because of the pork and other ammendents added to it that had nothing to do with the original bill. I wish we could do away with vote buying.
73 posted on 02/26/2013 4:19:28 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie; All
Here's what Rand Paul's mouthpiece had to say:

In the run-up to tonight’s vote to confirm former Sen. Hagel as secretary of defense, Sen. Paul voted twice against cloture on the nomination, because he agreed with many of his colleagues that there were questions that needed to be answered about the president’s nominee," Paul spokeswoman Moira Bagley told Yahoo News. "As he has said before, the president should be entitled to some leeway on his political appointments. That is why Sen. Paul voted in favor of Sen. John Kerry, with whom he largely disagrees on foreign policy, to serve as secretary of state, and that is why he voted for final passage of the nomination of Sen. Hagel this evening, with whom he also disagrees on a number of issues."

74 posted on 02/26/2013 4:26:56 PM PST by newzjunkey (bah)
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To: NoLibZone

Um, you need to take your anti-semetic cartoons and Jew hating propaganda somewhere else. Observant, ie religious Jews like the ones pictured in your “cartoon” are politically CONSERVATIVE. The liberals are the majority, yes, but there are plenty of us Orthodox here on FR, and we will not tolerate ignoramuses like you. Take a hike idiot.

(montag’s wife)


75 posted on 02/26/2013 4:27:05 PM PST by montag813
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To: montag813

I AGREE. EXCELLANT OBSERVATION ...and very well said, in a reasonable but pointed manner.


76 posted on 02/26/2013 5:52:32 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (Go Galt!)
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To: jimbo123; WXRGina; duffee; onyx; DrewsMum; Tupelo; mstar; jdirt; Vietnam Vet From New Mexico; ...

Mississippi ping


77 posted on 02/26/2013 5:52:32 PM PST by WKB ( Remember "Bush Lied and People Died" Now it's "People died and Obama Lied")
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To: jimbo123; WXRGina; duffee; onyx; DrewsMum; Tupelo; mstar; jdirt; Vietnam Vet From New Mexico; ...

Mississippi ping


78 posted on 02/26/2013 5:53:34 PM PST by WKB ( Remember "Bush Lied and People Died" Now it's "People died and Obama Lied")
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To: WKB
I’m not surprised. Cochran probably has reservations every Tuesday night in the Lincoln bedroom on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Cochran is a Democrat and has been for a long time. He just says he’s a Republican.
79 posted on 02/26/2013 6:02:15 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: lormand
Both of my Senators voted against this traitor.

Funny thing! So did mine.

I love how Cruz has Cornyn voting conservative. Cornyn used to vote with McCain and Graham but all of a sudden he does what Cruz does.

80 posted on 02/26/2013 6:02:36 PM PST by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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