White House to Go on Offense for Hagel Pick (For Defense Secretary)

Wall Street Journal ^ | 01/06/2013 | By SIOBHAN GORMAN And CAROL E. LEE

[darrellmaurina]

We have quite a few conservative Jewish Freepers. I’m pinging this to four I can think of just off the top of my head, but I am sure these four know many others.

Is there a Jewish FR ping list we could use to quickly gather as many details as possible about the problems with this Senate nomination?

I simply don’t have many details on this man’s history of opposition to Israel and I think our Jewish Freeper community might be very good at helping get facts and organize opposition.

[soycd]

Bingo. The rats want a republican to pin all their anti-Israel evil onto. I suspect the miserable gop will let them have it their way.

Very predictable.

[Cheerio]

Just more getting even and revenge from the White Hut. Get used to it we are in for another 48 months of this crap unless the GOP led House can muster up enough support to bring up Articles of Impeachment - that would put the WH on the defensive and shut down some of his “getting even” and “destruction of the GOP”. I know there isn't a chance in hell of removing him with a Reid Senate.

[Cheerio]

How many Senate votes does it take for confirmation?

With McLame's gang of 14 gone now, the nominee can be filibustered - but don't count on the GOP doing anything that radical !!! Zero won the election ya know, and he should get his way. /s

[butterdezillion]

But he has no legally-established birth facts (according to a certified verification from HI state registrar Alvin Onaka; see Larry Klayman’s letter to DNC Counsel Bob Bauer, at http://butterdezillion.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/complete-klayman-letter-to-bauer.pdf ) and can never have qualified as required by the 20th Amendment - therefore the 20th Amendment requires that Joe Biden “act as President”, including nominating a cabinet, etc.

Constitutionally-abiding Senators cannot vote for ANY of Obama’s nominees. And they would do very, very well to filibuster so that the government comes to a complete halt until this issue is addressed.

If the judiciary says that members of Congress cannot sue regarding legislative issues, then the judiciary gives no way for Obama’s birth facts to be determined, and the “political issue” that the judiciary keeps calling this stuff really needs to BECOME a “political issue”. And it is the judiciary which has said it has to be done this way - the judiciary which says that all Congress can do to protect the Constitution is to grind to a political halt. So teh judiciary takes the blame for this, for calling this a “political issue”.

Any Senator who really intends to keep their oath to protect and defend the US Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic needs to filibuster until Joe Biden nominates a Cabinet, as required by the 20th Amendment. That is the “political remedy” that the judiciary allows the legislative branch to do. The legislative branch is claimed to have no standing to file a lawsuit, and Hawaii statute does not allow birth facts to be determined without a lawsuit.

They want this battle, I say let’s let them have it...

It only takes one Senator to filibuster?

[ohioman]

That's easy to fight as long as the GOP strongly opposes Hagel. It is clear to see that Obama is trying to use RINO scum like Hagel to gut our military. In that way, he can say it was led by a Republican (albeit a Quisling POS - which succinctly describes Hagel).