DroppinScience
11-18-2008, 07:56 PM
Many have asked what the future direction of the Republicans will be... and I honestly think that if the GOP has any brains they'll heed Chuck Hagel's call. If they are to have any future, they need to start rejecting the rhetoric of hatred and finger-pointing that Rush Limbaugh and Co. have been using these past several years.
I applaud Hagel for taking this stand. These right-wing blowhards like Limbaugh, Coulter, Savage, Malkin, Hannity, etc. are toxic.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/18/hagel-takes-aim-at-limbaugh-senate-colleagues/
Hagel takes aim at Limbaugh, Senate colleagues
Posted: 03:13 PM ET
(CNN) — As his Senate career nears its end, Republican Chuck Hagel isn't holding back when it comes to criticizing members of his own party — including conservative talk radio hosts.
"We are educated by the great entertainers like Rush Limbaugh," Hagel said Tuesday during a speech in Washington, according to the Huffington Post.
"You know, I wish Rush Limbaugh and others like that would run for office," a sarcastic Hagel continued. "They have so much to contribute and so much leadership and they have an answer for everything. And they would be elected overwhelmingly. [The truth is] they try to rip everyone down and make fools of everybody but they don't have any answers."
Hagel has increasingly become critical of his party in the aftermath of the Iraq War and notably held back endorsing his longtime friend John McCain during the presidential campaign. He's reportedly under consideration for a cabinet post in the Obama administration.
Speaking at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Hagel also faulted Washington lawmakers for "raw, partisan, political paralysis."
"The American people don't like what is going on… they want us to start doing what leaders are expected to do, address the problems, find some consensus to governing. Get along. There will be disagreements, sure… but in the end we can't hold ourselves captives to this raw, partisan, political paralysis."
I applaud Hagel for taking this stand. These right-wing blowhards like Limbaugh, Coulter, Savage, Malkin, Hannity, etc. are toxic.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/18/hagel-takes-aim-at-limbaugh-senate-colleagues/
Hagel takes aim at Limbaugh, Senate colleagues
Posted: 03:13 PM ET
(CNN) — As his Senate career nears its end, Republican Chuck Hagel isn't holding back when it comes to criticizing members of his own party — including conservative talk radio hosts.
"We are educated by the great entertainers like Rush Limbaugh," Hagel said Tuesday during a speech in Washington, according to the Huffington Post.
"You know, I wish Rush Limbaugh and others like that would run for office," a sarcastic Hagel continued. "They have so much to contribute and so much leadership and they have an answer for everything. And they would be elected overwhelmingly. [The truth is] they try to rip everyone down and make fools of everybody but they don't have any answers."
Hagel has increasingly become critical of his party in the aftermath of the Iraq War and notably held back endorsing his longtime friend John McCain during the presidential campaign. He's reportedly under consideration for a cabinet post in the Obama administration.
Speaking at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Hagel also faulted Washington lawmakers for "raw, partisan, political paralysis."
"The American people don't like what is going on… they want us to start doing what leaders are expected to do, address the problems, find some consensus to governing. Get along. There will be disagreements, sure… but in the end we can't hold ourselves captives to this raw, partisan, political paralysis."