I guess, given how badly Hagel is doing in his confirmation hearing - so badly that uber liberal bright lights, the hem kissers of Obama, are openly mocking him on Twitter - I guess this proves my contention that the main purpose of choosing Hagel was to try and goad pissed off conservatives into unseemly acts against one of their own. I take it though that Hagel is doing so poorly that conservative 'intemperance' is going to look perfectly justified here - so Obama's little gambit possibly goes awry - but, really, what does he care? If Hagel falls he now gets to nominate Flourney, the first woman SecDef, and the renown of that will make people quickly forget Hagel - and that was probably Obama's thinking all along. The man's an awful president doing nothing but bad for the country, but when it comes to making cunning, shamelessly cynical little moves to further his purely personal political interests, guy's got a knack for that - and it is that shamelessness that really gets me, ya know, cause it speaks to either a truly disturbing arrogance [although that arrogance could easily be the zealotry of a committed ideologue, and increasingly I believe thats the case] or to a guy who's utterly convinced the press is never gonna hold him accountable for anything so he just does what he wants. I mean, how else to you explain Hagel? From what I've seen and read it sounds like the confirmation is an absolute disaster - I find it hard to believe Obama is so utterly detached from reality that he didn't suspect Hagel was a pretty problematic choice - I mean, don't get me wrong, I do certainly believe that Obama and his court are quite delusional and misguided, and I do believe Obama shares many of Hagels 'ideas' on foreign policy and the military - but they can't possibly be that detached from reality - and so Hagel had to be just a shamelessly cynical political play, no?
But watch, he'll probably still get confirmed. My god, where is this country going? What's happening to us?
