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Pull the Plug on Hagel

Ryan_M Wrote: Feb 15, 2013 1:37 PM
Chavez is Jewish, too. All she needs to do is to come out and say she's a lesbian. Then, she'll be perfect poster gal of "diversity and tolerance" of the new and improved GOP. That will show those Democrats come 2016!

Chuck Hagel's nomination to be secretary of defense is in trouble -- as it should be. The former Republican senator has so much baggage, it is amazing that the administration hasn't dumped him, as they did Susan Rice when her proposed nomination ran into trouble. Unfortunately, having won that battle, the GOP may be in weaker position to defeat another Obama nominee. And Rice, her misstatements about the attack on Benghazi notwithstanding, would have been a less dangerous cabinet member than Hagel.

Hagel has made clearly anti-Semitic statements before public forums time and again. If his target had been, say, blacks...

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