Chuck Hagel on the Judd Gregg Withdrawal: ‘It Was Sloppy. It Was Awkward’

Chuck Hagel is an expert at “Sloppy” and “Awkward.”

Mad – LOL. Exactly.
Maybe Gregg felt uncomfortable being in a cabinet with so many tax cheats!

“I think some of the policies and the way we’ve handled these issues over the last few years has not enhanced brining a relationship together based on cooperation and common interest”
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Oh really, so our Foreign Relations with NATO over the past few years have not been handled well?
Well, it’s a good thing none of the people in our Government responsible for Foreign Relations with NATO over the past few years are anywhere near foreign policy now.
Oh, wait….

My Theory:
At the point Gregg accepted, President Obama still resembled a centrist. Since then Obama has supported the “stimulus” bill (eg, huge money grab), supported the census change (eg, huge power grab), and done lots of partisan finger-pointing. The President’s true colors are now showing.
I can see why Gregg backed out.

Yeah “yaps shut” is very high tone version of the USUAL liberal shut down – really “The time for debate is over” is more urbane AND uses an indirect approach that makes us Neanderthals think twice if we can manage it.
Freedom fries – well yeah a little simplistic – but how about lib Chicken littles that focus solely on the sky is falling over carbon – and blow off any other data (“debate is over” again) and ignore the local devastations by China and other developing nations) of dust, pollution and desertification that go way beyond CO2. Now its not global warming but climate change which may or may not occur after the sunspot cycle of the next decade

Come on Hagel, when as an average American have you walked among people in other countries without them knowing you were a famous politician? I have traveled abroad since the 70′s and there were some places that as an American you were accepted and others where you watched your back.
Mr Hagel needs to measure his importance by sticking his hand in a bucket of water, pulling it out and seeing how quickly the water replaces the space his hand was in.

True, “freedom fries” was goofy. Much like Americans sewing Canadian flags to their backpacks when they travel overseas. Two sides of the same goofy coin.
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They’re actually both on the same side of the coin. The travelers in Europe that were doing that after the Iraq War were disguising their nationality out of fear of the European reaction to them being American. The Freedom Fries and Americans feeling that they had to hide were both forms of xenophobia.

“Now its not global warming but climate change which may or may not occur after the sunspot cycle of the next decade”
People who deny climate change fall into 3 categories:
1) Ideological hacks
2) Bought and paid for scientists.
3) The gullible.

Maybe it’s because he felt uncomfortable after the public exposure of his voting records and stances against the census and the commerce department.
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Like voting in favor of abolishing the agency as a member of the Budget Committee?

robert b—just love the Limbaugh adjectives you use. vacuous and meaningless. get away from The Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies (a non-degree awarding institution). But Rush with his high school mis-education is more intelligent than a scientist with a PhD? take a biology or geology class at a local community college and learn for yourself.

robert b—”instead of the real needs of people to live free and prosper in the land both home and abroad.” how do live and prosper when the planet is not dying. that not all scientists agree i concede. scientists in all fields disagree. there are even holocaust deniers. i would imagine that scientists who are unconcerned and unpersuaded either have no children, or, if they do, teach them to recycle and drive fuel efficient cars. look at any big, industial city from 40 miles away on a crisp winter morning and you will literally see the oxgygen at about 20,000 feet. below that is colorful but harmful emissions.
i live in Dallas (yes that commie, liberal city). in the summer we have ozone action days—no oxygen. i am a healthy young, non-smoking man and i find myself gasping for air to get indoors like i have emphysema. people suffer. but that doesn’t matter in republican dogma.

Still waiting for a further explanation of Gregg’s contacts with Senate Republicans throughout his nomination process. Was the Census ever discussed? I’ll bet it was…

anyhow obama deserves hagel if he’s become a old europe fan. its india and new europe and free iraq that’s the real hope to take the stands and hold them. old tired eur has elitism demographics against them

robert b—i think at the ground level where people are actually “living” (dying) it’s more like carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and sulfer dioxide. why does repiratory failure in its variant forms peak in the summer when you have heat, ozone and lack of oxygen. are the people in respiratory distress psychiatric cases? look at CDC and NIH data on air quality and respiratory failure.

Paul Well – nice rry, but just a bunch of BS!

Arlen Spector
“When I came back to the cloak room after coming to the agreement a week ago today,” said Specter, “one of my colleagues said, ‘Arlen, I’m proud of you.’ My Republican colleague said, ‘Arlen, I’m proud of you.’ I said, ‘Are you going to vote with me?’ And he said, ‘No, I might have a primary.’ And I said, ‘Well, you know very well I’m going to have a primary.’”

Paul Wall – nice try, but a little heavy on the spin?

Paul Wall.
Problem differentiating facts from opinion? As in – Bush lied about Iraq? How can one lie about a judgement decision which was based upon faulty information (which Saddam himself admitted putting out to keep Iran off his back). Re. Gregg and Joe the plumber – lots of grey here.

Manitu—”lots of gray there”, was he a plumber or not? did he pay his taxes? did Gregg ask for the job or not? are these guys role models for how to be good americans?

Manitu— and “”junk and incompetence” coming out of this administration” is not spin, lol. like Limbaugh.

Manitu—”I am behind on my taxes – does that make me a tax cheat? And Joe the plumber was a machinist or an auto mechanic?” i don’t think you are a tax cheat. you didn’t come out of nowhere pretending to be someone you are not and pretending to be concerned about things as if you were another person. i’m a librarian. it doesn’t matter that i am, just that if i say i am a laawyer or a doctor or a cosmetologist i would be a liar. there are pleanty of good, honest republicans to stand behind, why Joe the Plumber? he lied.

Manitu, this is what i have a problem with: “I’m getting ready to buy a company that makes 250 to 280 thousand dollars a year.” “Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn’t it?”—Joe the Plumber
that was a lie. he was never a plumber and never getting ready to buy a business. he was an assistant without a plumbers license. i can fix my sink and i can hold the wrench for a plumber but that will never make me a plumber and i would never be intending to buy a $200,000 business. if i made such lies public i would expect to be exposed.

Good Riddance Gregg….spineless, partisan coward. You know you asked for consideration for that job. Out of all the Republicans why would the President just out of blue pick YOU.

Business creates economic value. The government can only create conditions from which business can prosper. For ex. Ireland recently cut coorporate taxes down to around 12 percent and the place is booming. Obama’s stimulus package is a joke – trying to copy FDR -which was also a joke. HOW MANY ECONOMISTS BELIEVE THAT WE CAN SPEND OUR WAY TO ECONOMIC RECERVERY? VERY, VERY, VERY, FEW!!

Business creates economic value. The government can only create conditions from which business can prosper. For ex. Ireland recently cut coorporate taxes down to around 12 percent and the place is booming.
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Hmmmmm……..
Ireland moved toward greater government control of its financial system Wednesday by bailing out its two largest lenders, while shareholders in Fortis, once the biggest bank in Belgium, derailed state-led plans to sell the nationalized business to BNP Paribas of France.
Together, the moves suggested that Europe – like the United States – was still struggling to find the right template for stabilizing its banks, one that could soothe jittery markets and an increasingly incensed public.
The Irish government, meeting Wednesday night, approved a capital injection of €3.5 billion, or $4.5 billion, each for Allied Irish Banks and Bank of Ireland, a Finance Ministry official said. Bloomberg News reported later Wednesday night that the ministry confirmed the move in an e-mail message.
That made Ireland the first European Union country to take de facto control of all of its most important banks. Last month, the government stepped in to nationalize the teetering Anglo Irish Bank, which was No.3.

Paul Wall – Obama is doing just fine trashing his presidency, he requires no help from the Rep. It’s going to be a long 4 years and maybe we will get someone who cares about the United States of America not some special intrest groups or Al Gore’s money machine global warming.

House members receive the stimulus bill about eleven last night. It is about 1,100 pages long filled with crossed out sections and with hand written entries on sides and bottoms. Has ANY member actually read and digested the material before the vote yesterday afternoon – OF COURSE NOT
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Oh sure it has about 25 lines a page with about 7 words a line, that is about 175 words a page, and they have been arguing about it for weeks. The GOP has been telling us all about for weeks now. Who you kidding? Some one had to write it, some one debated it, some one typed it. Give me a break another typical but ridiculous argument.

Thinking
True re. Ireland but the recession was caused by defaulting sub prime loans here and spread to global markets. It has nothing to do with how true economic value is created. Bush had his first six years with great prosperity – until the housing market crashed. Bush tried several times to warn congress with no success. I do blame Bush for not going directly to the American people instead of wasting time with the Barny Franks, who basically allowed this mess to happen.

It is simply. If Republicans do not want help from the government when they get fired and support these group of neo-reprehensible maniacs….Do not get the money nor the help and pass it to someone who actually needs it.
Enough of Republicans grossness, abusive behavior and LIES.

Thinking
According to your figures, one page of the stimulus bill is about equal to one page of a paperback. When was the last time you read and digested an eleven hundred page paperback in a matter of a few hours? AND …… WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE MOST COSTLIEST SPENDING BILL IN AMERICAN HISTORY – NO WONDER ALL REPS AND SOME DEMS VOTED AGAINST IT!!

According to your figures, one page of the stimulus bill is about equal to one page of a paperback. When was the last time you read and digested an eleven hundred page paperback in a matter of a few hours?
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On my last exam. Did you ever had to study for a master? Or for a career other than typing?

Obama and the democrats had to make the hard choice, create a stimulus package and turn around a national crisis. that republicans are still talk about tax breaks for corporations who lay off, ship away jobs, or squander and pillage their corporations at the taxpayers expense and giving the wealthiest americans the most breaks are out of touch and have lost their souls.
it’s easy to be a republican and say “not one of us voted for it.” any coward would say that. they have no alternative save tax breaks, nothing to stimulate employment or capital flow. so if it works out they will say “well we didn’t vote for just because of paragaraph 9(c), 3B2, section 5, otherwise we we’re completely behind you Mr. President. if it doesn’t work: the republican standard “nanny-nanny poo-poo.
spineless invertabrates. thank God the majority of Americans voted for change of republican business as usual.
and blame (former for a reason) Sen Graham (you remember him “we’re a nation of whiners”?) for the legislation that got us here.

Der Kempt—”You took an exam for a masters that was 1100 pages long? Which university and what program please?”
a; said he or she read a book that long not a test.
READ. and what business is it of your’s where anyone is going to university. you don’t have your education posted. that’s arrogant.

Manitu: The final bill has only a few dozen pages worth of changes from the one published over a week ago. Any congresscritter claiming they haven’t had a chance to read it is just pandering to an ignorant base – their staff probably had interpretive sticky notes next to every highlighted change on their desk within two hours of its release. And if not, that staff should be fired.

Bdbadman
Maybe West coast Woke up and Realized that The republicans and Bush has put us in this Mess,And President Obama And the Democrats are trying to Fix it. The bill passed tonight Congratulations to the President! and for Republicans dont Need ya And To be honest We dont want ya!

Angie the issue is not gonna go away. What do you think that just because he got sworn in thats it. Why does he not want people to see his college records, passport records, and original Vault cerificate. Don’t you think there needs to be openness and transperency. just sayin

It is good that the bill has been passed… no doubt that the president used his poltical arm to pass the bill but somehow we are all tired of that even though it passed tonight… the point is it is borderline illegal to use campaign operatives to pass congressional legislation anywayI heard this morning that the obamabots are warn out and frustrated that the white house simply doesnt work the way they campaigned… apparently they are the kinda people to have watched John Adams the series!

tongsten
yep HRC is in the best pole position for 2016 but she might be the vp nominee in 2012 if things look bleak for Obama then if the obamabots can bite their tongues they still think that it was they that that the president does his business for but you have to govern from the center so no skinny legged vegan ultra liberals should have the power to run the white house

JG,
First off, let’s consign the term “obamabots” to 2008, shall we? Sorry, it’s just tired. Frankly, HRC is better off at state than in the VP office. Far more visible, and it actually involves running something.
Second off, how great is it that the GOP just voted against the LARGEST MIDDLE CLASS TAX CUT IN HISTORY. I guess they only like cutting taxes for the rich.

Mihann:
News flash: nobody cared about McCain’s age. They hated his kooky right wing ideology and his nutcase veep selection. That, and the fact that the Republican party is in the toilet thanks to W and his crew.
Second, the whole “socialism” thing plays well with the 30% or so who think W did a great job, or the 5% nation of dittoheads. Not much traction beyond that, my friend.
Just remember: the GOP voted against the biggest middle class tax cut ever.

mihann
whether your hero Rush did or did not affect the election … HRC will be president whether in 2012 or 2016 and you will deal with it or leave!

who gives a rats rear end about Hagel’s opinion on anything

David are you kidding me.
Wow, Tapper is awfully weird. It seems every single story he blogs about or reports on has to do with him somehow trying to embarass the president.
The O is embar-ass-ing himself. Other reporters are reporting like Jake because of that FACT. The only reporters not doing that are over at CNN. I bet thats the channel you watch.
Nielsen Ratings
FOXNEWS O’REILLY 3,494,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,658,000
FOXNEWS BECK 2,370,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 2,305,000
FOXNEWS SHEP 2,190,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 1,847,000
CNN KING 1,761,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,485,000
CNN COOPER 1,286,000
CNN BLITZER 1,246,000
MSNBC MADDOW 1,240,000

Jake any luck with those certificates yet. By the way his counsel is trying to block his records from Occidental College to be released. Jake where is the openness and transperency he promised. Don’t you believe it’s pretty simple to put an end to all of this and say here it is. I remember Bush’s first go around the media focused for a month on his military record. Jake I know you see right thru this administration. Come on man what are you waiting for.
A high-powered team of Los Angeles attorneys representing President Obama in his effort to keep his birth certificate, college records and passport documents concealed from the public has suggested there should be “monetary sanctions” against a lawyer whose clients have brought a complaint alleging Obama doesn’t qualify for the Oval Office under the Constitution’s demand for a “natural born” citizen in that post.

The strange things about these Senators, like Chuck Hagel, who truly wants the cross Cabinet job, keeps campaigning and saying that he will accept because our countries is in need. But Senator, if you truly want to help our country, staying as Senator is also a call to service.

Hagel is nothing but a self-absorbed tool of the liberal traitors that are excreted by the Poison Ivy League. It’s truly pathetic to see him grovel for some sort of relevance and acceptance from the D.C. Mob.

Bob Unruh reports that a high-powered team of Los Angeles attorneys representing Obama in his effort to keep his birth certificate, college records and passport documents concealed from the public has suggested there should be “monetary sanctions” against a lawyer whose clients have brought a complaint alleging Obama doesn’t qualify for the Oval Office under the Constitution’s demand for a “natural born” citizen in that post.
“In order to avoid the needless expense of our bringing and litigating a Motion to Quash the subpoena, I am writing to ask whether you would be willing to agree voluntarily to cancel or withdraw the subpoena…”
Woocher warned, “Please be advised, in particular, that in the event we are forced to file a motion to quash and we prevail in that motion, we will seek the full measure of monetary sanctions provided for in the Code of Civil Procedures.”

Sorry Obama I guess Judd Gregg is just not that into you–or your radical ideas.
Neither are 57 million Americans—hopefully more in 2012.

peach wrote:”Maybe Gregg felt uncomfortable being in a cabinet with so many tax cheats”!
Oh, I’m sure you are right on that. Gregg is much more comfortable with Jack
Abramoff and friends. That’s the reason he withdrew and isn’t running again for the senate. His relationship with Abramoff will be breaking news within next 2 weeks.

Obama went to Craig because he thought he could get another Dem in Senate!
But see Craig would not fit in becasue he pays his taxes!!
Obama is trying a Chavez move by making the Census Political!!
Impeach Obama NOW!!!

Hagel hasn’t been a Republican in years.
He should switch parties and be what
he aspires to be, a Liberal Democrat!
I don’t know who is more irrelevant,
Chuck Hagel or David Gergen! LOL!

Do the Bill Ayers wannabes posting on the ‘net that the Republicans “voted against the middle class” have a copy of Porkulus? How much? What rates? Tax bracket adjustments? Are they better than the tax cuts that President Bush worked for and got?
Of course, details and facts never stand in the way of Leftist ideology.
And if they can’t find any, they’ll just make up some or run to a Liberal blog to get them and say, “See! Told ya so!”
And, even if they cut everyone’s taxes, any real Republican would still not have voted for the “stimulus package” because of all the garbage the tax cuts were wrapped up in.

Sen. Hagel is NOT a true Republican. He is
a Republican by convenience. It won’t be surprising if he ends up in the Obama cabinet. He is a democrat in Republican clothing. No wonder if he run for re-election the republicans won’t vote for him anymore. You can not fool the people all the time.