Chuck Hagel (R-Conscience) is talking and Sinfonian has the story.
Hagel sounded to me, yesterday, very much like a man who really doesn't care whether he stays in the Senate or not. The junta better look out because freedom really is just another word for nothing left to lose. Meaning, once someone decides that they don't care what they lose, they're free and Hagel could be the one to draft articles of impeachment. I think he's angry enough to do it.
Here's a bit more Hagel from yesterday:
These young men and women that we put in Anbar province, in Iraq, in Baghdad are not beans. They're real lives. And we better be damn sure we know what we're doing, all of us, before we put 22,000 more Americans into that grinder. We better be as sure as you can be.
And I want every one of you, every one of us, 100 senators to look in that camera, and you tell your people back home what you think. Don't hide anymore; none of us.
That is the essence of our responsibility. And if we're not willing to do it, we're not worthy to be seated right here. We fail our country. If we don't debate this, if we don't debate this, we are not worthy of our country. We fail our country.
Hagel's quite a bit more conservative than I like on domestic issues, but credit where credit is due.
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My personal belief is that Cheney is the one keeping the nuclear activation codes and keys in brief case away from Bush. I see him as doing cardio everyday as he runs around the oval office hugging the briefcase one step away from a pursueing Bush. That might be the reason they are looking a bit thinner and buffed.
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