Showing posts with label Sen. Chuck Hagel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sen. Chuck Hagel. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Sen. Hagel Fires at Large Gas Balloon


Republican Senator Chuck Hagel (Nebraska) is feeling more comfortable expressing his opinions of late, now that's he's retiring from the Senate. Huffington Post has this piece on what Hagel had to say about his own party and one particularly gaseous, self-described "water carrier" for the Rethugs: Rush "Pills" Limbaugh. Here's what Hagel's take on Limpballs was:

"We are educated by the great entertainers like Rush Limbaugh...[The truth is] they try to rip everyone down and make fools of everybody, but they don't have any answers."


First, let me say, "Hey, that's our m.o., too!" But more seriously, we hope Sen. Hagel has a large mailbox, because just like others who have run afoul of the crackpot right's hegemony, he should expect to get a blimpful of hate mail from Rush's "dittoheads."

(Photo: Limpballs: "Since I can't have my young Dominican lads, this'll have to do.")

Friday, June 20, 2008

Veepstakes, Cont'd.


Hmmm... the buzz about Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel as Obama's VP running mate is intriguing. Highly unlikely, but intriguing. (We consider Hagel to be one of those principled conservatives who happens to be a Republican -- as distinguished from the Rethugs and Rebunglecans who over-populate his party.)

Yes, intriguing -- but, given this good news, he may not need much help in the VP slot.