If you don´t believe he is qualified, you vote no.

This is why the Repubs are toast. There is no point in supporting them.

Thankfully, sanity is making a comeback. The GOP is back and open for business! Gramnesty and McAmnesty are unlikely saviors of a party gone right of Rove, but we will take what we can get. Onward, out of the desert. Next step, destroy gun grabbing, amnesty, and carbon taxes. Then, make a deal with Dear Leader, Nobel peas prize upon him, regarding sequester. Get that pipeline built!

Why does passage of time while you are waiting for your questions to be answered affect the qualifications of the candidate? IMHO, if he won´t answer questions from Congress before he starts the job, he certainly won´t answer questions after he has it.

Graham and McCain...two camera lovers who are about as close as you can get to despicable. Seriously...try to imagine either of them proceeding in a political career without speaking in front of cameras. Two lightweight jerks.

I´m disgusted. If they don´t think he´s qualified, then vote "no".

If he´s really terribly awfully bad, then hold up the nomination until you get enough information to make everyone agree with you, even the dems with noses in shadow.

We don´t know the answer to John McCain´s question to David Gregory today on ´´Meet the Press´´: ´´Don´t you care that four Americans died´´ at Benghazi?

But we DO know now that John McCain himself does NOT care what happens to other Americans like the four who died at Benghazi, because he´s preparing to vote into the office of Secretary of Defense a man whom he himself states he believes is UNQUALIFIED to hold that office, thereby placing everyone in the American military in danger.

How would John McCain have liked to serve under unqualified officers when he was in the military? ´´Despicable´´ is too good a word for John McCain.

Once again the progressives-in-republican wrapping have performed their political two-step slide dance, as demonstrated by Charles Durning in "The Best Little Horehouse in Texas." They make some conservative noises so that the GOPer cheerleaders can lambast patriots with the "Republicans are conservative enough" canard, but then drop their charade in the name of comity when it actually comes to doing something meaningful.

And, once again, we are expected to support this carp. Not me, not any more. It seems our nation has as many enemies within the "Stupid Party" as the Dims have in theirs.

What good will it do to "take over the Senate" in 2014 if alls we´ll get will be Rove Republicans? If this is the best the GOP can do, they can go the way of the Whigs. I can hardly wait for the usual suspects to post how misguided and prey to Dim propaganda anyone is who actually believes in the Constitution and has the termity to complain.

Hagel has a lot of questionable attributes but no home run hitter to completely shut him down.The Obama thug machine is jam packed with arm twisters that don´t play by any rules.

Obama and his cohorts have convinced over half the country that Israel is no longer a valid ally,so whatever Hagel said about them,does no damage.

Every time a republican challenges an Obama plan or appointee,they are subject to being smeared by the lackeys at the Slimes and other rag outlets.

More proof that thugs can get their way, that pressure has been exerted again, and like the Chief Justice with Obamacare, the tyranny has gained the upper hand.

Just read the article about police officers in Atlanta being arrested for their criminal activities using their badges and patrol cars to help the bad guys. This article seems very similar. Besides lamenting the condition of the country, we should think about why we´re in this shape. America the beautiful; God shed His grace on thee. Does anyone remember Him?

Two pussy RINOs. You can predict their actions each and every time.

Exactly, 1. They certainly have enjoyed the spotlight in the meantime.

Wow! Two hardcore RINOS caving to Democrats. Guess nobody saw that one a coming!

When the rubber hits the road and the day of judgement arrives, mccan and graham will vote for haggle, I´ll bet my monthly wages on it.

Gutless, unprincipled loseres.

Just one more example of Republicans helping Obama,
FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

Obama is unqualified, so, what´s the diff?

So if I understand it, stonewall and all objections to your confirmation will disappear. Yeah, that seems about right to unprincipled drones whose only consideration is their political power. It is men like these who have brought us to the brink. McCain and Graham represent everything that is wrong in Washington. They have been there way too long and have no core principles. We know the no matter what they say, they will eventually cave to the ruling class. It is who they are.

Apparently Ahmadinejad wasn´t available for the job. Pretty much the same policy on Israel and on gutting the US military. Mighty big of McCain and Grahamnesty to put up the pillow fight.

Despite #2´s name, I bet he/she meant to put an /s after posting.

I´m with poster #1.....

If you think he´s not qualified -- then you vote NO.....unless the bamster has something "on" these two and uses it as extortion.....

Hmmmmmmmmm????

LZK

Hey republicans from SC! 2014 is not far away. Send the message to your senator ASAP. He was elected to do the bidding of his constituents, not to scratch the back of his insane, incoherent buddy Hagel!

Why don´t these two Senators do something different, and VOTE based on the welfare of America, instead of wanting to be liked by the press?
Is saying NO too hard for these two wimps?

Cue Captain Renault...

J. Edgar Hoover had something on every single politician in D.C. That´s why he kept his job all those years. Me thinks Bammys´ bunch is doing the same thing.

Token resistance followed by full capitulation. It´s the McCain/Grahamnesty formula

Both are RINOs (State of Confusion).
Please Lord, rid of us the truly mediocre, go alongs to get alongs.

Term Limits.

I heard Graham´s remarks. He said he asked Hagel whether he said something Graham considered a deal breaker. Graham said that Haagel didn´t remember saying it and said he was sure he would not haave said such a thing. Graham said, basically, he would take Hagel´s word, (as a gentleman) and would, therefore, have to vote for him.
Is he a RINO or is he a principled man who is trying to play by the rules?

Sorry not to join the hanging party.

This act is getting a little tired - make some conservative noises and then vote liberal. Lieberman also did that dance. I guess enough people are fooled, ´cause they´re still doing it.

@22, we here in SC have been working to replace Miss Lindsey since the midst of his first term. The problem is not that more conservative candidates cannot be found. The problem is our corrupt open primary system, wherein Ds can declare themselves R For A Day and vote the slimy little toad back in.

And by the way, Lindsey´s official opinion of himself is that he was elected to vote the way HE sees fit... not the way WE want. Told me that hisself.

Mutt and Jeff, these two yoyos are more fickled than a couple of Saturday night drunks on Sunday morning!

Lucy Lindsey once again plays conservatives as Charlie Browns.

"Look - - here´s a football to kick! Whooops - - sorry, I changed my mind!"

How many times will Lucy Lindsey try to fool us with this con job?

The best chance to get a job with the government is to be unqualified for it. The two Rino yoyos prove my point.

Stars of the GOP Kabuki theater. They get their mugs on TV to express "reasonable" concerns to placate conservatives. Then the deadline approaches: we have a crisis. Then the Senate "gang" to the rescue. Finally the intended "cave" as the fat lady sings. (Are there fat ladies in Kabuki?) How many times must we wee this? How many times must we put up with this? Go away. Just go away.

I meant "see this", but "wee this" works too!

A little grandstanding as two liberal senators try to convince the increasingly sceptical voters that they really do oppose the democrats...

So mostly what I read here is that because the media and WH house bash them and call them bad names, our senators should not stand up for what is right??

I had a dream in which Senators went before the cameras and said to their constituents back home, “Well people, go to my website and tell me which way you’d like me to vote. I’ll vote the way you want me to.”

I know, I know, the Senate is a club . . . blah, blah. If he´s not qualified, you vote no. If a simple no vote is not enough, you do whatever you need to do. DOD is too important to be put in the hands of two incompetents (the other being Fauxbama).

Am I misunderstanding what "end bid to block" means? I thought they were just ending the filibuster and allowing his nomination to come to a vote. I assume they will vote no. That doesn´t mean he won´t still be confirmed.

So typical of RINOs, fight until you win, then cave.

They were against Hagel before they were for him.

I´ve had it with RINOs. I changed my registration to independent because of the Grahams and the McCains in the Senate and the House. Each time I receive a letter asking for RNC national, state or local $ I toss in the garbage can. From now on I only will support the legislators who stick to their principles and have the courage to say no to bad selections or laws.
I´ve written to RNC and it falls on deaf ears.I seriously believe they have not read letters because there wasn´t any form of money in it. The RNC and its cohort in the senate and house will not recognize me and I no longer recognize them.

Please forgive the second post, but to answer #41: Yes, this action is to bring the nomination to a vote, but as we saw with the Kerry SOS confirmation only a few "Republicans" will vote no. You can count on McPain and Graham to vote yes.

GOP- the winners in 2016! Uh no.
Gop-the permanent loser party.

So, having staked out so-called principled positions on this issue, Senator Graham from Bend-Over, South Carolina, and John McCain, the nincompope, have decided to withdraw their objections to a self-evidently unqualified candidate?

It was important to Obama to ensure that a REPUBLICAN cuts defense. Finding a Republican idiot was just icing on the cake. Here´s the play: Make the Senate Republicans question Hagel and thereby force them to demonstrate just how stupid a Senate Republican is. Then rely on McCain and Graham to prove it by voting to allow a Republican they have deemed unqualified into office, making them look simultaneously unprincipled, obstructive, and double dutch stupid.

What a crew! What a coup! How much more are we all supposed to take? Are there any GOP politicians left who actually understand politics and know how to win?

What a sorry pair of so-called republicans. Makes one want to throw up just to hear either of their names mentioned.

Guess my question´s been answered.

The other day, in another post on a different article, I wondered aloud how long it would take Miss Lindsay to fold like the cheap suit he is. Now I know.

As for the McCain dive, whadda expect? He´s actually one of them, what with the Hillary love and all that!!
/s

WHY do we keep expecting this pair of "Politicians" (in the most despicable sense of that dirty word) to hold the football for us?!

And to think one was once the standard-bearer for the GOP....

Move over, John Roberts, you´ve got quisling company.

Psst- Democrats don´t need a single Republican to confirm Hagel.
McCain and Graham aren´t the problem.
It´s lousy Republican / Tea Party candidates like Akin, O´Donnell, Mourdock , Raese , Berg , Allen , Rehberg and Buck, who cost us the Senate.
Low information voters also exist on the right.
Facts are stubborn things.

At least wenowhaveTed Cruz.

Before you start thinking abut dumping incumbent Republican Senators, remember what happened in Indiana.

Something definitely smells here. What were McCain and Graham promised in exchange for caving on the hagel thing?

Sometimes....well, most of the time, #51, your ignorance is dumbfounding. I´ll bet you´re one of those heavy, blue-haired old ladies that enters the grocery store through the exit (growling at those who are just attempting to leave through the proper door) and then lays out 28 items in the "15 item or less" express lane. It´s not the TEA Party´s fault that your children and neighbors despise you.