Politicians. They suck. Need I say more?

BeeEss! Paul and the other three turncoats will be shunned by me and mine....

I don´t even want to hear the excuses!
I´m done.
Costa Rica, here I come.

And I had so much hope for Senator Rand Paul...NO one can go to Mordor on the Potomac without being corrupted!!!

#3 Sorry to see you go but you only go around once. It´s been fun and good luck.

link doesn´t work

Rand Paul is a squirrel. You heard it here first.

Paul and Hagel have a common interest, they´re both Isreal haters.

It is frustrating the way Yahoo News changes their links....here´s what they show now"

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/why-rand-paul-voted-confirm-chuck-hagel-defense-232124614--politics.html

Isreal=Israel

Link at #9 works. He voted against cloture. Once they went to the final vote Hagel was in. Pauls vote meant nothing. If he feels a president should have some leeway in his nominees that´s a legitimate position. During the vote Senator Scott of SC was chatting happily with Elizabeth Warren. Is he now no good.

The dems couldn´t have invoked cloture without repub support. This is why they lose it all in 2014. Half of them are dems in GOP drag.

One thing is for sure. The GOP will never again get any support from me nor votes from me.

"presidents should get "some leeway" on political appointments"

Only a political idiot would think this way. Need I ask what Rand´s payback from Obie was for his vote? This caving in to Obie is going viral and I have had enough of it.

The apple didn´t fall far from the tree.

There is no other branch of government more important than the military who are tasked to protect this country and its form of government. In these perilous times the voters of this country deserve no less than the best possible Secretary of Defense and it is glaringly obvious that Chuck Hagel is not that person!

For Rand Paul or anyone else, voting for Hagel knowing his past statements is failing to fulfill their oath of office and doing a great disservice to their country. America was treated very poorly today.

"Leeway" is something of an understatement when it involves confirming an incompetent and unqualified nominee who does not share American values. One wonders if Mr. Paul really understands what we are dealing with. His comments suggest that he believes what is happening to America is politics-as-usual, that the Obama administration is just another Democratic administration, and that its values and goals are fundamentally American.

So, a president dedicated to the destruction of America should be granted some leeway in his appointment of a like-minded person for Secretary of Defense to help dismantle America´s military because ... well .... just because. So perhaps Mr. Paul´s outburst the other day was just so much posturing, or venting, or indigestion, or whatever. Who knows? What that WAS we may never know. But now we know what it was NOT. Oh, we most certainly know what it was NOT. It was NOT an expression of a firm resolve to vote EVERY vote based solely on his beliefs and principles. On the other hand, perhaps it was, and he has simply demonstrated that his are not mine.

#3, I hope not but if you do, keep us posted ? As for Rand Paul, no excuses for you.

I am done...America, as a free country, is finshished....we are done

Can we just all move to Texas already and secede?!

Jee-Sus! These politicians make me want to vomit!

#´s 8 & 14 grok the reality of Rand´s vote.

I just realized the irony in the title of Heinlein´s book from whence comes the profound term, "grok."

Are we not all...?

The GOP makes me want to puke.

Paul gave the same reason for why he voted to confirm Kerry.
Winning presidents get to pick their cabinets.
The four Republicans who voted to confirm -Paul,
Thad Cochran of Mississippi,
Mike Johanns of Nebraska, and
Richard Shelby of Alabama -
did not affect the outcome.
The Democrats only needed 51 votes
to confirm a Cabinet Secretary.
They already had that with their 55 vote majority.
The 41 Senate Republicans who voted No could not change the outcome, but, they did take a stand in favor of the military by voting against Hagel.

Put a firk in him, he´s done.

There is something about Washington......that dissolves backbones. It appears no one can stand for anything if you are a Republican.

Have you noticed that liberals have no problem making a stand when they are dead wrong? While Republicans have a problem standing up when they´re dead right?

You know what I meant. Bye bye political career Mr. Rand, we have looooong memories. What the hell???

Rand Paul is a two faced politician. But I repeat myself!

As the late Lee Rodgers often said: "Never fall in love with a politician. They´ll break your heart every time." (RIP, Uncle Lee)

Not to worry, #22, a Heinlein reference always finds an appreciative audience here. I too grok a wrongness in Paul´s vote.

I believe he voted the way he did because he thought it was the right thing to do. One may or may not disagree with him but I do not question his ethics. Being a one issue person is not the best approach.

I do question his ethics. And it is NOT the right thing to do. Voting to confirm an incompetent and arguably dangerous nominee is inexcusable no matter what the purported rationale is.

Where does it say these bastages represent themselves and not the voters who sent them to defend democracy and the Republic!

Only in their twisted Marxist Stockholm syndrome mindlessness.

Apparently Rand Paul has gone insane.

To quote Dr Phil "What the hell were you thinking ?"

They just can´t do the right thing.

Holder. Sotomayor. Kagan. Kerry. Hegel. Get used to it.

The President deserves leeway? Then why does the Constitution provide for Senate confirmation of appointees?

They--politicians--are all dishonest, self-serving slugs.

I´ve always been suspicious of Paul´s conservative credentials,he´s a core libertarian,even though he tries to hide it.I don´t know what he thinks his gain is here but all I see is downside. The senate´s role on something like this is advise and consent.If a nominee rubs you the wrong way,just oppose him,giving a thug like Obama his way is contributing to the demise of the country.

This is the end of my support of Dr. Paul. I believe he did this to appease his father´s anti semite supporters. At any rate you can´t trust him. I had high hopes for him but no more.

Read some of the nonsense around here about Hagel being an anti-Semite and causing the end of America as we know it and you will understand the need for the GOP to shun the hysterical bunker dwellers among us and claw back to credibility after years of reckless foreign policy featuring nation building experiments in Mesopotamia. The way that the hysterics throw around the anti-semite slur, half of the Knesset would be too "anti-Israel" for this crowd. i say the GOP return to the foreign policy of Teddy Roosevelt: speak softly and carry a big stick. If the hysterics didn´t spend countless hours listening to the Talk Radio Show Hosts rant about tangential matters ad nosum, I think it safe to say Hagel´s nomination would have been shrugged off with indifference. There are some many suckers out there that will buy whatever these talk show hosts are pushing: whether it´s Sharries Berries, some dumb book, or the notion that a republican senator and war hero is anti-American... When did conservatives lose the ability to think for themselves?

I am disappointed in you, Senator. I´m not going off the deep end - I still think you are a sensible, thoughtful man, but honestly. Hagel is just dumb.

I´m extremely disappointed in what I thought was MAYBE a different kind of politician.

If senators are just meant to rubberstamp anyTHING 0bama puts into play, then why even bother? Just let him appoint anybody, and don´t waste our time. Just go home. Principle is important.

If Rand Paul was trying to appease the liberals, they´re laughing at him. In the meantime he has slapped and thrown us under the bus.

Even John McCain pulled his hand back from across the aisle for this. Ditto Graham. Greaaaaat work.