MSNBC PoliticsNation February 14, 2013
Has been filibustered. Forced to clear a 60 vote threshold. The president himself responded just minutes ago. Chuck hagel, who, by the way, was a member of the republican caucus, a colleague of all of these folks who the republican leader Mitch Mcconnell and others consistently praised when he was still in the senate, has two purple stars two purple hearts, was an extraordinary soldier, was the head of the u. S. O. , served on the senate floor relations committee. He is imminently qualified to be secretary of defense. And the notion that we would see an unprecedented filibuster, just about unp...