Chuck Hagel on Townhall

• 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
• Dem Senator: Hagel Will Be Confirmed Sun Jan 13
  Kate Hicks
• Rubbing Our Noses in His Victory and Radicalism Fri Jan 11
  David Limbaugh
  Hey, folks, remember the good old days when candidate Barack Obama at least pretended to be bipartisan and conciliatory? Now it's as if he's on a mission to prove he was faking it. ... more
• The Hagel Pick Telegraphs Weakness Fri Jan 11
  Ken Blackwell
  President Obama’s choice of former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel for Sec. of Defense is a dangerous choice that telegraphs weakness toward Iran. In the Senate, Mr. Hagel compiled a worrisome record toward the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism. ... more
• Obama's Empty Cabinet Fri Jan 11
  Brian and Garrett Fahy
  Accomplished legislator. Effective, insightful administrator. Respected, bipartisan leader. Policy visionary. Nothing of the sort has been said of Chuck Hagel – or of President Obama’s other Cabinet nominees John Kerry (State) and Jack Lew (Treasury). ... more
• Is Hagel out of the Mainstream? Fri Jan 11
  Pat Buchanan
  "Chuck Hagel is out of the mainstream of thinking ... on most issues regarding foreign policy," says GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham. Neocon William Kristol concurs: Hagel is "out on the fringes." ... more
• Obama Lurches Left With Pick of Hagel for Defense Thu Jan 10
  Michael Barone
  Barack Obama, we have been told by his admirers on the left and right, is an instinctive centrist, a moderate always ready to negotiate compromises, a politician deeply interested in the nuances of public policy. ... more
• Hagel and Defense Thu Jan 10
  Cal Thomas
  Biography isn't policy. President Obama's choice for secretary of defense, Chuck Hagel, former Nebraska Republican senator, has a resume most politicians can envy: a clean senatorial record, no ethical lapses and two purple hearts from a war many opposed and many more tried to avoid. ... more
• A Petty Decision by Obama Wed Jan 9
  Jonah Goldberg
  It's official. President Obama has named former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) as his nominee for secretary of defense. Hence, we may be in store for the worst defense secretary nomination fight since George H.W. Bush's failed appointment of Sen. John Tower (R-Texas) more than 20 years ago. ... more
• Obama Sending Wrong Signal to Our Enemies Wed Jan 9
  Donald Lambro
  WASHINGTON - President Obama's is putting together a new national security team at the Pentagon and the CIA that is said to be designed for an era of downsizing. ... more
• Chuck Hagel Is a Choice To Irritate the GOP Tue Jan 8
  Debra J. Saunders
  Though Obama lauded Hagel for representing "the bipartisan tradition we need more of in Washington," I think that what the president really meant is that Hagel is his favorite kind of Republican, the self-loathing kind. ... more
• New Tea Party Senator Stands up for "Opportunity Conservatism" on Fox News Sunday Sun Jan 6
  Daniel Doherty
• Why the War Party Fears Hagel Fri Dec 28
  Pat Buchanan
  In the fortnight since Chuck Hagel's name was floated for secretary of defense, we have witnessed Washington at its worst. ... more
• Chuck Hagel as a 'Teachable Moment' Tue Dec 18
  Frank Gaffney
  Sen. Hagel has been an outspoken champion of controversial and even radical policies firmly embraced by Mr. Obama during his first administration. Worse yet, they are likely to be priorities for his second term now that the President has, as he put it in his overheard side-bar with Russia's Dmitri Medvedev last March, "more flexibility." ... more

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