Chuck Hagel on Townhall

• Graham: No Confirmations For Hagel or Brennan Without More Information on Benghazi Attack Mon Feb 11
  Katie Pavlich
• Graham to hold up Hagel, Brennan nominations Mon Feb 11
  Washington, D.C.
  Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., says he doesn't think the nominations of Chuck Hagel to Defense Secretary and John Brennan to CIA Director should move forward until the White House answers some pressing questions on the consulate attack in Benghazi, Libya. ... more
• Frozen Sat Feb 9
  Ken Blackwell
  President Obama’s senior thesis at Columbia University has been embargoed. It is said to be an endorsement of the Nuclear Freeze Movement that was so much the cause célèbre of the left here and throughout Western Europe in the Reagan years. We may have to wait for his presidential library to open to find out. ... more
• Send in the Clowns Fri Feb 8
  Oliver North
  TIBERIAS, Israel -- Atop the Golan Heights, there are thousands of fruit trees, vineyards, acres of wheat, vegetables, herds of cattle and a half-million or more land mines. ... more
• Obama to Finally Make a Visit to Israel as President Tue Feb 5
  Katie Pavlich
• The Wrong Man for Defense Secretary Tue Feb 5
  Phyllis Schlafly
  Americans who are concerned about traditional freedoms and the Second Amendment have no difficulty understanding the message of the popular bumper strip: "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns." It should be just as easy to grasp the corollary: If nukes are outlawed, only terrorist countries will have nukes. ... more
• The Senate Must Reject Hagel Tue Feb 5
  David Limbaugh
  The Senate's "advice and consent" role doesn't require it to rubber-stamp a presidential appointee for secretary of defense who senators believe would weaken America in this increasingly dangerous world. ... more
• The Republican Obsession Tue Feb 5
  Pat Buchanan
  If last week's hearing for Chuck Hagel raised questions about his capacity to be secretary of defense, the show trial conducted by his inquisitors on the tribunal raised questions about the GOP. ... more
• What Obama Does Best: Taunt Republicans Tue Feb 5
  Debra J. Saunders
  President Barack Obama is not committed to fixing Washington's chronic budget woes or jump-starting an ailing an economy, but that doesn't mean this administration lacks focus. If there is one area in which this administration delivers, it is taunting Republicans. ... more
• Diplomats & Secretaries Mon Feb 4
  Rich Galen
  I am in Morocco with Mullpal Peter Fenn as a bipartisan team to meet with and help train young people in and out of the Moroccan government on communication strategies. ... more
• Chirs Matthews: John McCain had a Vietnam Flashback Sat Feb 2
  Heather Ginsberg
• Actions Speak Louder Sat Feb 2
  Paul Greenberg
  Washington continues to talk, but only talk, about the danger of Bashar al-Assad's increasingly desperate regime in Syria distributing its arsenal of high-tech or even nuclear weapons to terrorists throughout the Mideast. ... more
• Chris Matthews: John McCain had Vietnam Flashback During Hagel Hearing Sat Feb 2
  Washington, D.C.
  Chris Matthews disrespects John McCain's veteran status. ... more
• Levin: What Kind of Commander-in-Chief Would Nominate Chuck Hagel? Fri Feb 1
  Ashley Brooks
• Mr. President: Chuck Hagel! Fri Feb 1
  Ken Blackwell
  Former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be Secretary of Defense should be withdrawn now. He delivered what may be the worst performance at a confirmation hearing ever given. He was described as “confused,” “befuddled,” and “self contradicting.” One of Mr. Hagel’s own backers deplored the lack of “charisma” the nominee showed during the hearings. ... more
• Is Chuck Hagel Simply Ignorant? Or Worse? Fri Feb 1
  Humberto Fontova
  "Elian is now where he belongs." (Senator Chuck Hagel after Elian Gonzalez was shanghaied at U.S. gunpoint from his American family at Fidel Castro’s command and without a warrant.) ... more
• Hagel Testimony = Fail Fri Feb 1
  Rich Galen
  I subscribe to the general theory that a President - Republican or Democrat should be able to have the people running his Departments, Commissions and Agencies that he wants. ... more
• Repub & Dem Insist Hagel "Reconsider" Signing Israel Solidarity Letter Fri Feb 1
  Washington, D.C.
  In case you were not sure how Chuck Hagel felt about Israel after his "Jewish lobby" comment. ... more
• McCain Grills "Old Friend" Hagel On Iraq Troop Surge--Hagel Refuses To Talk Fri Feb 1
  Washington, D.C.
  Friends after this? We would say in my home state of Minnesota: Not so much. ... more
• Inhofe: Hagel's Views 'Very Troubling And Out Of The Mainstream' Fri Feb 1
  Washington, D.C.
  Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), the ranking member of the Armed Services Committee, told the hearing today that while he respects Hagel's service, he cannot support his nomination. Inhofe detailed issues which Hagel has "switched positions" in the last few weeks. ... more
• Levin: Obama 'Is Hagel', Muslim Brotherhood 'Sympathizer' Fri Feb 1
  America
  Today, radio host Mark Levin shared his opinion on Obama's nomination of Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense. The radio host said, "Chuck Hagel is not just a problem for Israel, he is a huge problem for the United States military." ... more
• Rubio to Oppose Hagel Nomination Thu Jan 31
  Katie Pavlich
• Opposition Softens on Obama Cabinet Nominees Mon Jan 28
  Kevin Glass
• Ivory-tower Obama Can't Abide Views He Doesn't Share Thu Jan 17
  Michael Barone
  To judge from his surly demeanor and defiant words at his press conference on Monday, Barack Obama begins his second term with a strategy to defeat and humiliate Republicans rather than a strategy to govern. ... more
• The Hagel Case Thu Jan 17
  Emmett Tyrrell
  Former senator Chuck Hagel is a suave, energetic, spirited fellow. He is intelligent, and from his early youth apparently patriotic and undoubtedly courageous. He showed that in Vietnam. Hagel has been a Republican senator and an accomplished businessman. Now he is President Barack Obama's nominee for secretary of defense. ... more
• Chuck Hagel: A Man to Watch -- Carefully Tue Jan 15
  Paul Greenberg
  It should be interesting, the confirmation hearings on the nomination of Charles Hagel to be the next secretary of defense of the United States. ... more

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