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2014-11-24 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Skidmark 2014-11-24 09:52|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 With Susan Rice in charge of the military all Zero needs is a rubber stamp now.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-11-24 10:22|| 2014-11-24 10:22|| Front Page Top

#2 RINO was only picked to give Pub cover for Obama's dismantling of America's military.

Posted by Frank G 2014-11-24 10:37|| 2014-11-24 10:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Apparently Hagel's rubber stamp wore out. No doubt da Prez has scoured the LGBT files for a replacement person.

Posted by Mugsy Glink 2014-11-24 10:41|| 2014-11-24 10:41|| Front Page Top

#4 We seem to be burning thru Secretaries of State and Defense at a rather high rate.

Posted by SteveS 2014-11-24 10:44|| 2014-11-24 10:44|| Front Page Top

#5 How about big sister herself, Janet Napalitano, for SecDef.

That might actually put some fear in Iran and ISIS.

Posted by lord garth 2014-11-24 10:47|| 2014-11-24 10:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Now, think what Hagel wouldn't do and shudder.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-11-24 11:32|| 2014-11-24 11:32|| Front Page Top

Posted by 3dc 2014-11-24 11:35|| 2014-11-24 11:35|| Front Page Top

#8 He's a former U.S. Army NCO and Viet Veteran. I suspect a man of at least a modicum of integrity. Perhaps he got sick and tired of Rice and General Allen and simply said stuff it. Of course we won't know for another 2-3 years and the release of his tell-all book.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-11-24 11:44|| 2014-11-24 11:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Because Israel wants to neutralize Iran's nuclear threat, and Hagel wanted to let them?

Posted by RandomJD 2014-11-24 11:49|| 2014-11-24 11:49|| Front Page Top

#10 Any word yet on who Valerie Jarrett picked as a replacement?

Posted by Mugsy Glink 2014-11-24 11:54|| 2014-11-24 11:54|| Front Page Top

#11 According to Drudge Report he is being blamed for slow response to Ebola. I am not making this up.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-11-24 11:56|| 2014-11-24 11:56|| Front Page Top

#12

Nothing to base it on really, but I'd venture Wes Clark is on the short list.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-11-24 11:58|| 2014-11-24 11:58|| Front Page Top

#13 Rose asked Hagel to elaborate on comments that he made in a speech at the Reagan Library last weekend. In that speech, Hagel said that America’s military capability, while still the best in the world, is being threatened.

Hagel re-iterated that to Rose, but also left viewers to wonder about the direction that President Obama is taking the military.

“I am worried about it, I am concerned about it, Chairman Dempsey is, the chiefs are, every leader of this institution,” Hagel said, including Pentagon leadership but leaving both President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden’s names out of his list of officials who are worried about the U.S. military’s declining capability. Hagel said that the Congress and the American people need to know what while the U.S. military remains the strongest, best trained and most motivated in the world, its lead is being threatened because of policies being implemented now.

Hagel went on to note that a good leader prepares their institution for future success, saying that “the main responsibility of any leader is to prepare your institution for the future. If you don’t do that, you’ve failed. I don’t care how good you are, how smart you are, any part of your job. If you don’t prepare your institution, you’ve failed.”

In the past couple of years, Hagel has warned that defense budget cuts implemented under President Obama were hurting readiness and capability. The “how smart you are” line may be a veiled shot at President Obama, who basks in a media image that he is a cerebral, professorial president.

(Link)

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-11-24 12:27|| 2014-11-24 12:27|| Front Page Top

#14 Don't know what he was thinking in the first place. Will he accept the head coaching job for the Raiders next? I'm sure the idea of being Sec Def is good for the ego, but he joined the worst administration I am aware of - haven't studied Coolidge, Taft and whoever Van Bueren was. Also he knew that Defence is a lower priority than even NASA is for this president. We have several wars brewing and Hagel is wandering out to the dessert carrying the burden of all the sins of the entire 6 year freak show that we know as the Obama administration.

Posted by Super Hose 2014-11-24 12:28|| 2014-11-24 12:28|| Front Page Top

#15 I think he was resigning when he made that speech last week. My jaw sort of dropped, almost unhinged, when I read a transcript of his remarks.

Give the old RINO some props boys, he found a backbone and manned up to the wuss and his harem of incompetent advisors...including those girly men he promoted to general.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2014-11-24 13:56|| 2014-11-24 13:56|| Front Page Top

#16 Look out here it comes !

Executive Order (put number here) : I am President, Commander in Chief and Leader of the Defense Department, therefore I hereby transfer Eric Holder to the White House to act as Liaison to the Department of Defense. No Secretary of Defense need be appointed at this time.

Posted by Daffy the Fat7614 2014-11-24 14:35|| 2014-11-24 14:35|| Front Page Top

#17 I don't know if the burg knows about this, but the feds have put in an order for 34 million silver and gold sprockets, so something is definitely up. Also gold and silver spot prices are up.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2014-11-24 15:09|| 2014-11-24 15:09|| Front Page Top

#18 Sprockets on Bambi. It could happen.
especially if the reports are true that Boner and company are going to ignore the Amnesty EO.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-11-24 15:11|| 2014-11-24 15:11|| Front Page Top

#19 Those were the days my friend

Posted by Shipman 2014-11-24 16:00|| 2014-11-24 16:00|| Front Page Top

#20 List of potential replacements

Posted by Pappy 2014-11-24 16:06|| 2014-11-24 16:06|| Front Page Top

#21 I think he took the job because he felt he could serve DOD. I don't always agree with him, hell, I don't always agree with myself, but I believe his intentions were honorable. I think he just could not take the bull from Obama, especially after inserting a retired dipshit, Allen, was inserted into the mix.

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-11-24 16:46|| 2014-11-24 16:46|| Front Page Top

#22 I agree Pan. Allen and Rice have queered the deal. I suspect Hagel was getting significant negative traffic from his combatant commanders, Dempsey and Odioidhidinero.... not much.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-11-24 16:52|| 2014-11-24 16:52|| Front Page Top

#23 Hagel had several things working against him.

One, he didn't have the confidence of his former Senate colleagues, thanks to his attitude and antics while a Senator. That pretty much limited his access and influence.

Two, the administration made him SecDef pretty much because of those antics and attitude.

Three, though he pretty much screwed, and screwed up his relations with, his former GOP colleagues, he wasn't considered a "member of the team" by the administration, especially by the shadow President and the battle-hens of national security.

Because he was essentially and outsider and SecDef, he wasn't going to gain traction with the Oval office, especially when he realized that DOD couldn't do on a (frayed) shoestring what the combatant commanders wanted.

One thing I noticed missing on the list of potential SecDefs are the political commissars the WH inserted into the Pentagon as 'policy experts'.

Posted by Pappy 2014-11-24 18:01|| 2014-11-24 18:01|| Front Page Top

#24 Never thought I'd say this, but I actually have some respect for Hagel for bailing on this clown show.

Posted by SteveS 2014-11-24 18:46|| 2014-11-24 18:46|| Front Page Top

#25 "Because Israel wants to neutralize Iran's nuclear threat, and Hagel wanted to let them?"

Bingo, #9 RandomJD.

Could also be that Hagel wanted to help them.

Posted by Barbara 2014-11-24 19:12|| 2014-11-24 19:12|| Front Page Top

#26 Need that own funeral photo and need it now.

Posted by regular joe 2014-11-24 21:19|| 2014-11-24 21:19|| Front Page Top

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