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Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News: Former Sen. Hagel: GOP being 'irresponsible' on healthcare
Leavenworth Street - the talk of Nebraska politics: Hagel ditches the GOP
Think Progress: Former Sen. Chuck Hagel: GOP is being ‘irresponsible’ in the health care debate.
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Chuck Hagel: GOP Being "Irresponsible" On Health Care Reform http://bit.ly/1DX7Yv (via @EileenLeft) Chuck? Not afraid of Karl anymore? 10/28/2009 |
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@joygreenmcgann Former Sen. Hagel: GOP being 'irresponsible' on healthcare' http://bit.ly/1G12YM 10/23/2009 |
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Former Sen. Hagel: GOP being 'irresponsible' on healthcare
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... Hagel said earlier this month in a speech at the University of Michigan, video of which was only made available recently. "As some Republican senators have said publicly -- that if we kill Obama on this, and we destroy this, and we defeat his, that will drive a stake through his political heart on this administration," the former senator, who retired at the end of his term in January, added. "I just find that about as irresponsible of a thing as I can think of." Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/64511-...
Hagel ditches the GOP
Leavenworth Street - the talk of Nebraska politics —
... If this ain't leaving the party , we don't know what is: [Former Nebraska Senator, Virginia resident, Chuck] Hagel was asked whether he would run as a Republican if he were to seek office again, a question the Nebraska native did not answer directly. "I would run as Chuck Hagel. I always have," he said. "If I'd run again, I'd run on my record, and who I am, and that's the way I'd do it." If you're a Republican, you say, "Of course I'd run as a Republican. I've always been in the party. What are you, nuts? Get outta here!" But instead Hagel announced the formation of the " ...
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel: GOP is being ‘irresponsible’ in the health care debate.
Think Progress —
... The Hill reports today that Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) criticized the Republican Party’s approach to the health care debate during a speech at the University of Michigan earlier this month. Hagel chided his former Republican colleagues for using the health care debate to “destroy the other party” rather than engage in thoughtful conversation; he also said that such an approach is “irresponsible”: ...
Hagel decries 'irresponsible' GOP
Political Animal —
... some interest in joining the Obama ticket. (The senator's wife endorsed the Obama campaign.) A year later, Hagel still apparently doesn't care for what he's seeing from his party. Republican senators trying to kill healthcare reform have acted irresponsibly, one of their former colleagues asserted. Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) chided some of his former colleagues who have suggested that halting healthcare reform would be politically beneficial to the GOP. "If your attitude is wrong, if your intention is to use healthcare to destroy the other party, or to destroy the ...
the chuck stops here
skippy the bush kangaroo —
... the former senator, who retired at the end of his term in january, added. "i just find that about as irresponsible of a thing as i can think of." ...hagel said during his speech that it would have been "wrong" for him to endorse mccain despite serious reservations about some of the people mccain had surrounded himself with during the campaign. ... and i thought a lot of people around john were dangerous. i didn't want to see them in power." - the hill ...
Rep. Anthony Weiner tests the bar on hypocrisy for the GOP (updated at end of post)
Firedoglake —
... Update: Apparently their former colleague, Chuck Hagel, agrees that the Republican Party is acting irresponsibly on the health care issue. Read and/or watch here. ...
