No, the military will be just fine. What fiscal collapse, are you speaking generally or about the Defense Department? Do you republicans always walk looking at the sky seeing if it’s falling or not?

The republicans say they want to be more inclusive but anyone who doesn’t agree, lock stock a barrel is excluded.

Examples:

John Huntsman – because he was the Presidents ambassador to China.

Chris Christi – because he slammed Boehner over the Sandy vote.

Chuck Hagel – because he’s a friend of the President

The fiscal collapse will certainly come if the republicans get their way and do these massive spending cuts that will put millions out of work.

Hagel has no natural constituency, except perhaps for those who want a foreign and defense policy that is tougher on Israel and softer on Iran.

Israel would be clear that Obama views the Jewish state with hostility. Iran would be clear that it has nothing serious to fear from the Obama administration.

Nothing else can explain this odd nomination. Team Obama tried to couch it as a bipartisan act, inasmuch as Hagel was a Republican Senator. But key Republican Senators have made it clear that they don’t want Hagel at the Pentagon. Key Democrats have also failed to express enthusiasm over that prospect. If there’s a bipartisan consensus around Hagel, it’s that Obama should nominate someone else.

If the President would like to abandon his election promises about stopping Iran’s nuclear weapons program he should just say so.

Trying to change US Defense and Foreign Policy by just appointing Hagel will be understood that way in the Senate and will
not be accepted.
Ten out of twenty-five members of the
Senate Armed Services Committee, Democrats, Republicans and Independents,
have already expressed their concerns about him.

To me he is the stereotypical Archie Bunker type bigot. His policies have been anti gay (even now after his late and self serving apology he doesn’t support equal benefits for gay military families.

there are many ways a Secretary of Defense could help gay military families no matter how DOMA is decided and Hagel has not come out in favor of any of these.

Reports to the contrary, LGBT equality is not yet a done deal in the military. There is still the matter of partner benefits. There still remain a handful of regulations that could be revised independent of the Defense of Marriage act that could bring some equity of compensation and benefits to gay and lesbian service members. but remain denied due only to Department of Defense foot-dragging:

Included in the discretionary benefits currently denied are spousal identication cards, and shopping at the PX, the former cited in the Pentagon’s own Working Group study as not requiring DOMA repeal to deliver.

His remarks about the Jewish lobby having too much influence would cleary be seen as bigoted if you substitute any other
minority group’s lobby. Try NAACP or La Raza and see how long you would be considered.

He is anti-African American (with a 11/100 rating from NAACP and admires Strom Thurmond as a great role model. anti Woman (vs choice and contraception)
By contrast, he has a 100% rating from the NRA.

and
Hagel has drawn additional heat from insiders who claim he lacks the credentials needed to manage a department as large and essential as the Pentagon.

“Yes, Hagel has crazy positions on several key issues. Yes, Hagel has said things that are borderline anti-Semitism. Yes, Hagel wants to gut the Pentagon’s budget. But above all, he’s not a nice person and he’s bad to his staff,” said a senior Senate aide who has close ties to former Hagel staffers.

“Hagel was known for turning over staff every few weeks—within a year’s time he could have an entirely new office because nobody wanted to work for him,” said the source. “You have to wonder how a man who couldn’t run a Senate office is going to be able to run an entire bureaucracy.”

Others familiar with Hagel’s 12 year tenure in the Senate said he routinely intimidated staff and experienced frequent turnover.

“Chuck Hagel may have been collegial to his Senate colleagues but he was the Cornhusker wears Prada to his staff, some of whom describe their former boss as perhaps the most paranoid and abusive in the Senate, one who would rifle through staffers desks and berate them for imagined disloyalty,” said Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon adviser on Iran and Iraq. “He might get away with that when it comes to staffers in their 20s, but that sort of personality is going to go over like a ton of bricks at the Pentagon.”

Multiple sources corroborated this view of Hagel.

Are you speaking for all Christians or just the Evangelical ones?

There are at least two Christains who think Hagel would make an excellent Secretary of Defense, me and the President. I don’t feel too lonely though, I suspect there are millions more Christians who feel the same way.

They are not satisfied with destroying their own party, now they want to destroy the whole government.

You right but you need to realize the republicans have a very short retention capability. The Bush administration never existed to them. Neither did the Hoover administration. The insist on making the same mistakes over and over and just hoping for different results.

Thats why they still support failed trickledown and supply side economics.