"The Senate will confirm Hagel. The president ought not give senators the opportunity. He should pull the nomination."
-http://publicoccurrenc.blogspot.com/search?q=hagel
And the Senate did confirm Chuck Hagel yesterday to be the next U.S. Secretary of Defense.
There is an excellent article today in the online version of The Atlantic on the Hagel confirmation fight and how some prominent hawkish writers let their personal opposition to Hagel's nomination, similar to the one expressed here, influence what they told their readers the likely outcome would be, the opposite of what was written here. There was never a point in which Hagel's confirmation seemed seriously in doubt yet Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post, William Kristol of the Weekly Standard and others wrote various-shades-of doubtfully about it. As The Atlantic article also says, this is a recent pattern among Republicans: Mitt Romney thought, really, really thought, he was going to win the presidency . His pollsters and advisers, prominently Karl Rove, told him so. And told the rest of us. To state the obvious it does no one any good to report personal preference as fact. If that is obvious why do the Republicans do it? I don't know.
-http://publicoccurrenc.blogspot.com/search?q=hagel
And the Senate did confirm Chuck Hagel yesterday to be the next U.S. Secretary of Defense.
There is an excellent article today in the online version of The Atlantic on the Hagel confirmation fight and how some prominent hawkish writers let their personal opposition to Hagel's nomination, similar to the one expressed here, influence what they told their readers the likely outcome would be, the opposite of what was written here. There was never a point in which Hagel's confirmation seemed seriously in doubt yet Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post, William Kristol of the Weekly Standard and others wrote various-shades-of doubtfully about it. As The Atlantic article also says, this is a recent pattern among Republicans: Mitt Romney thought, really, really thought, he was going to win the presidency . His pollsters and advisers, prominently Karl Rove, told him so. And told the rest of us. To state the obvious it does no one any good to report personal preference as fact. If that is obvious why do the Republicans do it? I don't know.
