First there was the Senate Republican republicans. Republican senator after republican senator threw questions at hagel that even by the debate standards of a nominating hearing were the cheapest kind of demagoguery and bullying. Why do you think that the Iranian Foreign ministry so strongly supports your nomination to be the secretary of defense . To go on al jazeera, a Foreign Network broadcasting propaganda to nations that are hostile to us and to explicitly agree with the characterization of the United States as the worlds bully, i would suggest is not the conduct one would expect of a secretary of defense. You continue to fold, i believe, extreme views far to the left of even this administration. If you were a visitor from another country and you just listen to hagels republican interlocaters, you would have had to ask where did this moral monster come from . And the answer is, of course, is mostly in the Republican Senate caucus. Watching Lindsay Graham make the pained gassy face
0 finally, there was the nominee himself, who appeared to have prepared for the hearing by skimming a few briefing talking points on his cab right to the capital and who rather than defending some of hits comments on foreign policy, the importance of exhausting every chance of peace rather than leaping into the horrors of war, the dysfunctional congressional politics of israel/palestine, he seemed resign to glumly recant. name one person, in your opinion, who is intimidated by the israeli lobby in the united states senate. well, first name one. i don t know. well, why would you say it? i didn t have in mind a specific person. do you agree it s a provocative statement? that i can t think of a more provocative thing to say about the relationship between the united states and israel and the senate or the congress than what you said. name one dumb thing we ve had goetded into doing from the pressure of the valley or jewish lobby. i have already stated that i regret the