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Subscribe to RSSBreaking down yesterday’s Valentine’s Day filibuster against Chuck Hagel… The many sides of John McCain… McCain’s straight talk: The opposition to Hagel is rooted, in part, in his criticism of George W. Bush… Senate Dems offer their proposal to replace the sequester… Obama heads to Chicago… And on Lautenberg and Booker.
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Senate Armed Services Committee members, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. confer on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, at the start of the committee's hearing on the appointments of military leaders.
*** The Valentine’s Day filibuster: Safe to say, there was little love in the U.S. Senate yesterday on Valentine’s Day. Senate Republicans used a filibuster to temporarily block Chuck Hagel’s nomination to head the Pentagon -- the first time a filibuster had ever been used against a defense secretary nominee and just the third time ever against a cabinet secretary pick. A combination of reasons contributed to 41 Republicans denying Hagel the 60 votes he needed to clear the procedural hurdle: Some were always opposed to Hagel; others were mad at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for not respecting a GOP “hold” and scheduling the vote; some were mad at the White House over Benghazi; and one GOP senator (Orrin Hatch) voted “present” because of the precedent that a no vote would send. Here’s the bottom line on where Hagel’s nomination stands: A delay is never a good thing, because it gives his opponents additional time to try to torpedo his nomination. That said, the fact that Hagel essentially got 59 votes (including four from Republicans) suggests he’s likely to be confirmed when this vote comes up again in late February. But we’re going to have to wait another two weeks until the Senate returns from its recess. Yet more than anything else, yesterday highlighted a growing problem for the GOP in the Age of Obama: It’s clear what they are against, but what are they for?
*** The many sides of John McCain: This week seemed to bring out both the maverick and anti-Obama partisan in Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). On Tuesday, he rebuked fellow GOP Sen. Ted Crux (R-TX) for crossing a line during the Senate Armed Services Committee’s consideration of Hagel’s nomination. “No one on this committee at any time should impugn his character or his integrity," McCain said of Cruz’s suggestion that Hagel might have taken money from countries like North Korea. But then two days later, McCain joined most of his Republican colleagues in blocking Hagel’s nomination, at least temporarily. At first, McCain said that while he opposed Hagel, he wouldn’t join a GOP filibuster against him. Then he threatened a filibuster if the Obama White House didn’t answer particular questions about last year’s Benghazi attack. Yet after the White House replied to his questions, McCain said that the GOP demands by Sen. Cruz and others for more information about Hagel speeches amounted to “reasonable requests,” as the Washington Post notes. Talk about whiplash.
*** McCain’s straight talk: So what’s the real story? Well, McCain himself shared it late Thursday afternoon during a FOX interview, in which he suggested his opposition to Hagel was rooted in the former senator’s criticism of George W. Bush. It was a little straight talk, if you will. “There's a lot of ill will towards Sen. Hagel because when he was a Republican, he attacked President Bush mercilessly,” McCain said. “At one point, he said he was the worst president since Herbert Hoover, said the surge was the worst blunder since the Vietnam War, which is nonsense. He was very ‘anti ’his own party, and people don't forget that.” Let’s be clear: The only reason why Hagel was blocked yesterday was because McCain changed his mind. Just one more senator needed to vote for cloture to clear yesterday’s procedural hurdle. And looking ahead, McCain remains an enigma. He is a key player in the bipartisan push for immigration reform, which the Obama White House views as its top legislative priority this year -- after resolving the budget stalemates. But McCain also has opposed almost all the key legislative matters over the past four years, even those he’s supported in the past. Obama’s two Supreme Court nominees. The DREAM Act. The New START treaty. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. One thing to remember about McCain: He was a sharp thorn in Bush’s side in 43’s first term, but he became more helpful in the second term. Could we see a similar pattern with Obama?
*** Senate Dems offer their proposal to replace the sequester: Also on Capitol Hill yesterday, Senate Democrats unveiled their proposal to ward off the so-called sequester. The New York Times: “Senate Democratic leaders reached agreement Thursday on a $110 billion mix of tax increases and spending cuts to head off automatic spending cuts through the end of the year. But with even some Democrats tepid on the proposal, the chances of a deal before the March 1 deadline have receded. The Democratic proposal would establish a 30-percent minimum tax rate on incomes over $1 million to raise about $54 billion over 10 years” -- the Buffett Rule. “It would raise $1 billion more by subjecting tar sands oil to a tax to pay for oil-spill cleanups and by ending a business tax deduction for the cost of moving equipment overseas.” Folks, there’s little chance of the Buffett Rule surviving; it’s always the first thing in beginning talks and first thing out. That said, this is how you do negotiations. The real key in this Dem offer is the cuts they DID agree to and the oil and gas tax loopholes they offered up. We’re about 60% of the way there, perhaps.
*** Obama heads to Chicago: Today, Obama heads to his hometown of Chicago, where he gives remarks at 3:45 pm ET. Per the White House, the president will discuss some of the economic proposals from his State of the Union address. But make no mistake, this visit will also be about the gun violence in Chicago. By the way, how can you tell Obama no longer has to worry about being re-elected? He’s heading to Florida for a vacation, where he’ll be getting golf lessons from former Tiger Woods golf coach Butch Harmon, according to Golf Digest.
*** On Lautenberg and Booker: Lastly, we learned yesterday that 89-year-old Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) won’t seek re-election in 2014. As our colleague Steve Kornacki asked yesterday, why didn’t Newark Cory Booker wait for this inevitable announcement before saying he’d run for the seat, a move that only alienated Lautenberg and his allies? Booker has shown that he’s very good at the P.R. side of being a politician. But he’s made two big errors in the past year: 1) contradicting Team Obama on its criticism of Mitt Romney’s time at Bain Capital and 2) not waiting to run for the Senate until incumbent Lautenberg made up his mind. By the way, one other overlooked aspect of Lautenberg’s retirement -- he’s the last remaining WWII veteran in the Senate.
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The guys are led by Mitch who fillibustered his own bill he asked Harry Reid to bring to a vote a few hours earlier that day a couple months ago, and John, The Herder of Feral Cats. I don't want to stereotype good house cats to be same as House repubs. They need to start the day taking their own right hand and shaking their own left hand, say "left hand meet right hand, and try to keep informed what the other hand is doing until you go home for the day." Credit for the self-handshake goes to an old great coworker funny son of a gun, consultant to high level management and he said it often after coming back from meetings with several of them.
Poor little Obooboo.
Didn't get his way.
Boo hoo hoo
my oh my....a neutered feral Bearcat with wit........should appeal to many other ignorant Libs i think.
I'm afraid the campaign for the next President has already started - especially in the Repub. party., Block, block and then block some more, then they'll (the little people-us-) blame the dems., or so they hope.
Today where is the President?
Sounds like a plan.
Ok...lets look at history. Hagel criticized George Bush for the war on Iraq which was based on blatant lies like weapons of mass destruction that never existed. Bush used images of nuclear mushrooms and forced Colin Powell to lie to the United Nations about mobile biological trailers. Valerie Plame was outed as a CIA operative because her husband dismissed the theory of yellow cake from Niger. The list can go on and on.
We had no support from any other country because their intelligence revealed Sadam Hussein to have no weapons of mass destruction.
The Republican party has put Bush in the closet because the public learned him to be a huckster.
McCain is upset at Hagel for being correct. McCain is so deep into his power because Presidents come and go while term limits don't apply to him.
The RNC has no compass and their obvious viscousness will hopefully create a new conservative party. Its mind boggling that elected Republicans go to Washington to stop the movement of government. Imagine a corporation hiring people from a competitor to undermine its productiveness!
Its time for term limits for members of Congress and the Senate.
Ok....let's look at history.
Hagel just got shut down.
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA.
Poor little Obooboo.
Hagel will be confirmed. Yes, republicans are the STUPID party.
Always count your chickens before they hatch?
It will be extremely difficult for republicans to continue blocking the confirmation after they have ADMITTED they are being "Mean Girls". Comprendez?
They can do whatever they want, and you can't stop them from doing so.
Comprende?
And Obama is the STILL the president and you can't do nothing about that.
BoooooHooooooo!!!
What a pathetic bunch of fit throwing children the left is. You need a slap down 2014.
Weren't we supposed to be slapped down in 2012. How did that work out?
Still don't control the House.
I'd say pretty good.
Just ask Chuck Hagel.
Benghazi is the worse blunder since Watergate, and it is fair and reasonable to want more information I voted
for Pres. Nixon, but he did the right thing and resigned.
Greater blunder than false intel on WMD in Iraq that led to needless war. Are you learning disabled?
I don't know.
Was the president sleeping during that event too?
@salsaforever. I believe Iraq's WMD's are in Syria, and it would be ironic if the WMDs were founds on
President Obama's watch. But GWB would be vindicated and about time,. TGIF!!!!!
Here's all you need to know.
in a country like Libya that just overthrew their dictator..........Crazy people that don't like America get weapons and sometimes use them.
Seems to me Libya is safer than Sandy Hook CT or Aurora CO.
End of story.
You can go back to your life now and stop being paranoid.
Gun deaths in of soldiers in Afghanistan in 2012.....309
Gun deaths in Chicago in 2012.........500.
So much for gun bans working.
Works quite well in NY city
Yeah.....they only had 414.
Still more than Afghanistan.
But thanks for proving gun bans don't work.
Couldn't have done it without you.
Common Sense...more like NonSense ,or LACK OF Commom Sense, or "makes no sense at all", or all of the above.
Reid-the GOP showed you how they felt about the gentleman's agreement to temper the filibuster.
GOP = Stuck on stupid.
They don't seem to understand how tired Americans are of this crap. Just wait until 2014.
F'ing idiot, hypocrite repiglicans.
Nope.
They are doing what the rest of America voted for them to do.
Stop Oblahblah.
Get used to it.
Uhhhhhh
Did you miss that Obama was just reelected?
So you aren't aware that Americans chose Obama over the GOP candidate?
Is this news to you?
Uhhh....
Did you miss that we are a Democratic Republic, so that it doesn't equate down to a single elected official to keep one party from running rough-shod over the rest of us?
Is this news to you?
They chose free stuff....
Obamanation will be offering another tissue very soon. LMFAO!!!!!
Yep.
Because we'll be shutting down the president again very soon, and you'll be whining again.
Tissue?
LMFAO!!!!!
Common Sense...more like NonSense ,or LACK OF Commom Sense, or "makes no sense at all", or all of the above.
I think Obamanation is kicking your Liberal Lemming azz! LOL
salsa girl....."Obama will be offering another tissue very soon"...yeh, to Slick Willy, in the Oval Office, as appeasement for his support during the campaign. After all a MAN who assists in the election of a person who just 4 years before labeled Slick Willy as a RACIST MUST BE A HO', right?? right.
Shades of Robert Bork! I'm shocked, SHOCKED that anyone would contest this nomination!
The GOP is reprehensible. Eliminating Defense sector jobs by their insistence on sequester and now denying the DoD a head during this GOP inflicted emergency shows that the GOP cannot be allowed to have political power. They have abused Lincoln by appealing to racists and now reject Hegel who McCain stated he would have chosen for his own cabinet. The GOP are ideologues who have no practical abilities. The GOP only stands for polluters, racists and out of control capitalists bent on diverting all money into their pockets and sending the poor into slavery or death - - despicable.
Poor little Obooboo.
Didn't get his way.
Boo hoo hoo
Poor America
We have one political party with nothing else to do but obstruct progress
Yep.
But I would say it is to obstruct Progressives.
Progressives do not equate to progress.
Everything has gotten better since Obama took over the Bush disaster.
Sorry you hate America
Except for jobs, the economy, taxes, spending, civil rights and world peace.........
But other than that, we're golden.
Joe in Albany...Poster child for the do nothing GOP supporters. Keep on talking man, your idiotic rants are perfect.
Stay Classy Albany...
LOL..its funny to watch these GOP racists foam-at-the-mouth over shutting down progress in the American government.
Stuck-on-stupid, short sighted morons...I cannot wait until 2014. Americans are sooo sick of their crap. The congression approval rating is the lowest in history. I cannot wait to vote!!!
Would you like a tissue, NikNik?
Obamanation offers a tissue when he's got nothing else. LMFAO!!!!!!!
Nothing else but shutting down the president. LMFAO!!!!
Vile repiglicans and their fake outrage over Bengazi.
Too bad they never got worked up about the 12 embassy attacks under GW Bush.
36 people were killed..none were investigated.
GW Bush/C Rice were never properly investigated about 9/11 either where their ineptitude led to the deaths of almost 4k Americans ...
Then they never got investigated about the lies they told to start an illegal war in Iraq where thousands of American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals were murdered under the GOP warmongering, lying spree....
The GOP tries to hide GW Bush away..didn't even invite him to the last RNC convention...but America will never forget his crimes against this nation and never forgive the aholes that put him in office.
Repiglicans are shameful and disgusting...like their leaders
Poor little Obooboo.
Didn't get his way.
Boo hoo hoo
lol..who needs a kleenex?
I'm thoroughly enjoying watching the homophobic, racist, misogynistic repiglicans self-destruct.
Its f'ing awesome!
Besides, last time I checked...my President won a 2nd term in the White House. Where's Romney???
hahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahaha....f'ing loser!
Poor loser.
Getting all whiney when the Golden One doesn't get his way.
Boo hoo hoo
Hey Einstein, President Obama won. Do you need to check your facts?
Hey Einstein,
The president doesn't get Carte Blanche.
Do you need to check your facts?
NikNik.
All AMERICANS should be outraged over the murder of four of our citizens within an American Embassy.
The POTUS & SofS should be leading an all out charge to find out: who, what, where, when, & how this came to be.
Or are YOU saying BHO is just like GWB, and shouldn't investigate.
Here I thought you wanted a change from that. Guess there's no reason to vote DEM then, right.
What's good for the Elephant is good for the Donkey...I hope Dem. Senators remember this fillibuster nonsense next time a Republican is President and block all his nominees! [Notice I didn't say his/her because republicans will never elect a woman from their own party, let alone any party].
Democrats have integrity...and they're not whiny, racist little babies.
They want the government to work for America. Democrats are traitors like these GOP dbags are.
Democrats will always hold themselves to a higher standard for America.
Just remember these disgusting GOP members when you're in the voting booth next year.
I thought that was a jackass. So, you are claiming some credibility for electing a half white President?
Typical repiglican....racist and pathetic.
Tissue, NikNik?
Nik- "Democrats are traitors like these GOP dbags are." I agree with you but, I doubt that's what you meant. You really ought to proofread your insults so you don't sound quite so stupid.
if the "betrayers of benghazi" will just answer the questions, release the documents, and let us get finished with one of many Obama adminstration fiasco's, then we can get this over as well. They were asked along time ago to release the information, answer the questions, and they refused, I too am a concerned citizen who wants to know why they didn't help Ambassador Stevens and the 3 security personnel, and I too am a concerned citizen who wants to know if Obama beleives he has the authority to use drone attacks on American soil. If you don't want to know about these things, but just want Obama left alone, you are the low information voter, and you need to go back and sit down. Stop trying to shame and blame someone who really wants to know whats going on.
McCain already admitted republicans are "Mean Girls". Republicans have NO credibility. True story.
Salsa- I suppose your President does have credibility? Example please.
Re-elected? Next stupid question?
salsa- Weak answer. Come on you gotta have something better than that! Just because his idiot base re-elected him doesn't mean he has been a success at his job. Cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term, no. Close Gitmo, no. End the wars, no. ACA? No, that's falling apart. Green energy, no, no, no, no.
salsa girl...being re-elected constitutes credibility??? Those are YOUR words, numbnut...Thanks for confirming the Superior Credibility of President Bush in 2004.
Greg it's all about the MATH. If you had any understanding of MATH you would understand it took more than Obama's base to get him re-elected. I am guessing there is a bag of rocks in your family tree?
Now I am having to explain to the learning disabled that credibility is not a static concept? Another person with a bag of rocks in their family tree.
salsa,
WOW, Nixon RE-ELECTED taking 49 states and 60 % of the popular vote (versus 26 states and 51 % popular vote for BHO).
So POTUS Nixon was more credible and that much better than Potus BHO, by your logic/method.
WOW, just WOW.
Let me get this straight....
Sarah Palin was qualified to be VP...
But Hagel, a former GOP Senator isn't qualified for Sec of Defense?
hahahhahahahahahhahahhahahahhahahahhahahahhahahhahahahhahahahhahahhahahh
Seriously?
This is how the radical right behaves?
ahahahhahahahhahahahhahahahahhahahahhahahahha
Poor little Obooboo.
Didn't get his way.
Boo hoo hoo
So let me get this straight
You think Palin was qualified for VP but Hagel isn't qualified for Sec of Defense?
Seriously dude, you really want to put your name on something so ridiculous you are the ass clown of the century?
hahhahahahahhahahahhahahah
Sarah Palin?
hahhahahahahahahah
By February 26th, Obama will get his way. The republican party is the STUPID party.
Poor little Obooboo.
Didn't get his way.
Boo hoo hoo
salsa- let's hope BHO gets his way on March first with sequestration.
Yeh the sequester most republicans voted for in which Boehner said: I got 98% of what I wanted.
The Defense budget does need "cutting"...let the cuts begn.
Obamamoron...time to get treatment for your Tourette's Syndrome.
If you think you're getting any mileage with your junior high repetitive comments you're sadly mistaken.
The President will ultimately prevail in this argument regardless if Hagel is confirmed or not because:
1 - If he's confirmed, Obama wins.
2 - If the Gestapos on Parade block it, Obama still wins because it's just MORE ammunition he can use to make them look like the bunch of STUPID whiny sore losers that they really are.
This is partisan sand throwing at its finest. If Hagel were nominated by a Republican Administration, then every Republitard in Congress would be lining up to kiss Hagel's ass. You know it and I know it.
It's recess time, so go out an play with the other 8 year olds.
The sequester was 100% the idea of Barack Hussein Oblahblah.
You can blame him when it occurs.
Would you like a tissue, Gun?
Because your party just got spanked...
Toy- I think it's only fair Obama's plan be implimented, don't you?
Leave the gun, keep the cannoli? LOL! You need to read the first page of this vine before you accuse Republicans of being whiny or stupid.
Nah...I would prefer to wipe my ass with your face so I'll take that instead.
Sorry, but I'm not seeing any spanking going on. I'm just seeing a lot of whining for which the President will have the last word.
And wasn't it you (among other morons) who were predicting that Obama was going to get "spanked" in November? Ya...how did that work out for ya?
Greg...sorry, but all I see is the same thing that I see for most vines: Usually start off with intelligent comments from Progressives and then the discussion descends into the abyss of hypocrisy, baseless conjecture, and petty partisan sand throwing when azzholes like you and Obamanation enter and fill the room with your stench.
Every person associated with obama is inept...hmmmm wonder why?
McCain admitted republicans are "Mean Girls. Leaves no doubt the republican party is the stupid party.
Like the American people that voted him in to a second term.
Wow, you radical right wingers sure hate America
Poor little Obooboo.
Didn't get his way.
Boo hoo hoo
Correction. Obamanation resorts to boo hoo or tissues when he's got nothin.
Common Sense is a complete joke, the pepole that love America want to LOWER THE DEBT...
BozoClones just want free sh!t at any cost, including bankrupting this great country...
But this is a common sense issue so CS4u woudn't understand...
Obamanat:
President Obama got him way on November 6th, 2012.
No, I just resort to tissues when your party just got spanked.
And toyota......but he sure didn't get his way yesterday!!! BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA
"Free Stuff"? Didn't that phrase help defeat Romney? Music to my ears.
Oblahblah got shut down.
Music to my ears.
They say you can't fix stupid and Obamanation proves it with his childish comments.
Love the picture.
McCain: That's right Lindsey, look at that hard on I'm getting by putting it to the guy who stole the presidency from me. Closer, closer.......
When I'm done with you, we'll continue to show that lil' n....... who's really in charge here, even if we have to ruin the country to do it.
The GOP are immature and juvenile. That is who we want running our country! Geeze.....
Poor little Obooboo.
Didn't get his way.
Boo hoo hoo
Dude, you voted for Sarah Palin!
hahahhahahhahahahahhaha
Think about what a fricken moron that makes you.
Hhahahahhahahahahahhahahahahhahahha
Say it again.....Sarah Palin for VP of the United States......
hahahhahahahhahahahahhahhahahahaah
What a fool.
ahahahahahhahaha
lol Common Sense..
The GOP is nothing but a clown brigade...GW Bush, Palin, Akin, Mourdock, Bachman, Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, Coulter, Boehner, Cheney, Rove....
The list of clowns just goes on and on and on...how these pigs can stand their own stench, I'll never know.
Poor little Obooboo.
Didn't get his way.
Boo hoo hoo
Obamanation has depleted his intellectual reserves.
Nope.
And Obooboo still didn't get his way.
Boo hoo hoo
lmfao Salsa..he's stuck on stupid like most repiglicans.
He must not have got the memo that Obama won the election in a landslide.
LMFAO...poor widdle racist.
Tissue, NikNik?
Obamanation's intellectual reserves are non-renewable. Just an observation.
What President Obama needs to do is appoint Hagel during the up-coming recess time. Congress is leaving for another week....Does congress ever work?
Go ahead and appoint Hagel President Obama. That will teach congress to stay in Washington...They can't say congress is in session because we all know it won't be all next week.
Hagel is right. Bush is the worst President since Herbert Hover.
Hagel is right. The Iraq was was the worst blunder since Viet Nam.
What did Hagel say that was wrong, McCain?
Yeah.........and the Supreme Court will over-rule Oblahblah like they did the last time he pulled that crap.
Even the GOP know that GW Bush was the worst President in history.
Have you ever seen a convention where they don't invite the last serving 2 term President to attend?
The DNC convention honored every single of one of its living serving Presidents...Carter got a long video tribute. Then Clinton spent months campaigning for Obama until he was literally hoarse.
Democrats are proud of who we are, what we stand for...and the leaders we elect.
GW Bush didn't get invited...didn't make any speeches..didn't campaign...was basically hidden away because he's a shameful, sick piece of trash who NEVER should have been allowed anywhere near the White House.
He should be up on charges as the war criminal that he is...he's also a domestic terrorist who robbed America blind and caused a Great Recession that Obama has managed to deftly climb out of.
Repiglicans know what GW Bush is...that's why they won't bring him out of hiding. They think if they hide him, Americans will forget his treason...but we NEVER will...EVER.
Even the libtards know that Oblahblah will get spanked again if he tries to pull an Executive Order on this.
So, because politicians oppose something, they should give in for the sake of unity. Any disagreement is considered revenge? We consider ourselves a melting pot of different cultures and backgrounds but if anyone has a difference of opinion, everyone wonders why? Its called politics, and I'm thank full that not everyone thinks alike.
I love being a Liberal Progressive these days.
The country is moving steadily in the right direction.
...and watching these Repiglicans put the nails in their own coffin is incredibly amusing.
Americans are finally waking up to watch the GOP stooges stand for. The GOP are traitors to American values.
2014!....then 2016...where we'll be saying President Clinton once again!
Socialism is not the right direction.
Woof! Holldoggie will never be persident, the Dems cornholed her and let this bozo get her spot--
Hilldog will be (OUCH) 70 by 2014 and ready for the old folks home...hope she gets abused!
LOL
way to go. I hope the government doesn't forget to tell me when to inhale and exhale.
If people actually had a clue about politics instead of shaking pom poms of their favorite party, they would soon realize that the middle class is disappearing and that neither party is looking out for their best interests.
When we have 3rd and 4th generation welfare recipients, the system is broken.
When banks and big business can make reckless gambles with our hard earned retirement money, the system in broken.
The sad truth is, the average person and elected official know less about how the government works and the constitution than a immigrant who just became naturalized. We are doomed
At least the GOP held the house so we can have more rape defining bills.
Paul Ryan has been a part of 23 bills to define rape.
"Cause Americans don't really know what it is.
Great to have the GOP looking out for what's important.
hahahahahahhahahahahahahahahhahahaha
Poor little Obooboo.
Didn't get his way.
Boo hoo hoo
GOP lawmakers, why don't you just grow up?
Leftisidiots, try picking somebody not completely inept!!
(See:Hilldog,Holder,Biden)
Dev -
They've got to do something to make the idiot they elected to the Presidency look more intelligent.
I hope the sequester does go thru. Cut away and then President Obama can use the savings on his future plans.
Republicans are still pissed of they lost again in November.
Time for congress to take another week long vacation. Appoint Hagel during recess President Obama.
What these rectums of the GOP base that is posting on here with the low informed minds don't realize, he doesn't have to be confirmed. The Senate can keep stalling. Obama then, which is completely legal, by executive order, have the assistant Sec of Defense become the care talker until a person can be confirmed.
As the POTUS is the only one who can nominiate a person for that position, he DOESN'T HAVE TO. Let the GOP sit and stew, because the POTUS can, if necessary, go around them. And if he did that, listen to them squeal, gnash their teeth, etc.
And as an Independent, who is tired of all of this political BS pulled by both sides, would LMAO if the POTUS did exactly what I said. And since you low informed low lives love spouting how Obama has violated the Constitution, how come you haven't impeached him yet?
Would it be that you are just telling LIES again, trying to discredit him? sure seems like it. Typical action anymore from the GOP. Just tell LIES. Guess what GOP, you lost the election because of lies, amongst other things. hahahahaha
F obozo.
SallyAnn...yeh, your ignorant azz would be just as happy if this POS POTUS just issued an Executive Order proclaiming himself King and declaring the USA as a Monarchy. WHY??? Because you are just plain too phucking stupid to understand the Constitution, but are willing to blindly follow an incompetent faux "leader" who has done absolutely NOTHING but worsen every key factor and premise of our Countrys' strength. Grow up and STFU with your uninformed , biased and sickening rants that have no basis for TRUTH or understanding. Giving away "Free Schit" to get elected does not make a POTUS or any other leader wise or worthy of the role...it just means his supporters are a group of ever increasing TAKERS and / or entitlists.