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Home Front: Politix
Steyn on Hagel
2013-02-02
From TFA:

There are over 300 million Americans, and another 20 million more Undocumented-Americans about to be fast-tracked down the soi-disant “path to citizenship.” Surely, from this vast talent pool, it should be possible to find someone who’s sufficiently interested in running the planet’s biggest military not to present himself on the world stage as a woozy, unfocused stumblebum. In an exquisite touch, responding to reports that Hagel was “ill-prepared,” someone in the White House leaked that he had been thoroughly “coached.” In other words, don’t blame us: We put him through the federally mandated Confirmation Hearing for Dummies course. He doesn’t have to be a competent defense secretary; he just has to play one on TV for a couple of hours. But even that’s too much to ask of an increasingly dysfunctional political system: The Senate disdains to pass a budget, 70 percent of U.S .Treasury debt is bought by the Federal Reserve, month-long negotiations to cut spending turn out in the final deal to increase spending . . . and the president’s choice of defense secretary tells the world he has no idea what our policy on Iran is.

Hagel may know nothing about Iran, but heÂ’s an incisive expert on America.
Posted by:badanov

#8  They need people who make Champ look bright by comparison.

Even more embarassing, he's a f&$king Republican. How did that happen?
Posted by: Titus Ulans4144   2013-02-02 13:14  

#7  why even have a hearing if the knucklehead nominated can bomb the hearing and still be confirmed?

Because "I am not a King" Obama has to call in his chips to get Dem senators to make absolute fools of themselves in public. At some point he is going to run out of chips and bring down his whole political structure (the party, the MSM, Hollywood) with him.

Hopefully the United States of America will not callapse along with him.
Posted by: Frozen Al   2013-02-02 11:43  

#6  Secretary of Defense for Dummies, I love it.

But it must not have had many pictures.
Posted by: bigjim-CA   2013-02-02 11:37  

#5  why even have a hearing if the knucklehead nominated can bomb the hearing and still be confirmed?
Posted by: airandee   2013-02-02 09:33  

#4  Intelligence is NOT a requirement for Obama administration positions. All the candidate must do is carry out the dictates of Donilon, Garrett, and the [I am not a king] Champ.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-02-02 06:19  

#3  
Posted by: junkiron   2013-02-02 04:51  

#2  I'm thinking that the Obama brain trust has the idea that they can survive and control an economic collapse especially it they cause it. His cabinet seems to consist of fodder for the underside of the bus who think they'll be taken care of no matter what happens. The problem the controllers and the fooder is that they are working from a theory that has never worked. The revolution eats its own.
Posted by: Vortigern Hupoluse1541   2013-02-02 04:42  

#1  Nevertheless, he's going to be confirmed.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2013-02-02 02:42  

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