U.S. Senate resembling 'a bad Carnival cruise'
Senators Overboard!
By GAIL COLLINS, NYT
We seem to be short one secretary of defense.
Well, there’s Leon Panetta, who has already had his farewell ceremony, given his farewell briefing and his farewell address, then flown home to California. But the Pentagon probably still has his cell number in case a war breaks out.
And there’s Chuck Hagel, nominated yet totally-still-not-confirmed by the U.S. Senate. A Senate that is beginning to resemble a bad Carnival cruise. They’re dead in the water, nothing’s working and the chief engineer is Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
People, what do you think happened with Lindsey Graham? Have you noticed that lately he seems to be on television more often than the Geico gecko? How does he manage to get himself interviewed so much? Do you think he lives in a tent outside one of the studios? Graham doesn’t hold any Senate position higher than ranking member of the Armed Services subcommittee on personnel. Yet there he is, on the air all the time, denouncing something.
And what do you think has happened to John McCain? Actually, we’ve had that conversation a number of times before.
(More here.)
We seem to be short one secretary of defense.
Well, there’s Leon Panetta, who has already had his farewell ceremony, given his farewell briefing and his farewell address, then flown home to California. But the Pentagon probably still has his cell number in case a war breaks out.
And there’s Chuck Hagel, nominated yet totally-still-not-confirmed by the U.S. Senate. A Senate that is beginning to resemble a bad Carnival cruise. They’re dead in the water, nothing’s working and the chief engineer is Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
People, what do you think happened with Lindsey Graham? Have you noticed that lately he seems to be on television more often than the Geico gecko? How does he manage to get himself interviewed so much? Do you think he lives in a tent outside one of the studios? Graham doesn’t hold any Senate position higher than ranking member of the Armed Services subcommittee on personnel. Yet there he is, on the air all the time, denouncing something.
And what do you think has happened to John McCain? Actually, we’ve had that conversation a number of times before.
(More here.)
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Lindsey Graham to Chuck Hagel during the confirmation hearings: "Name one person … who's intimidated by the Israel lobby in the United States ?"
Hagel did not express an answer then ... but it seems obvious now that with the pressure of the Bill Kristol's Emergency Committee for Israel and other groups did "persuade" (or intimidated) more than a few Senators to force a delay.
BTW ... did you hear Bill Kristol blasting President Obama for talking to Bibi on Sept. 11, the day of the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, for an hour ... Kristol says it was "a dereliction of duty on the part of the president" not to be giving all his time to Benghazi (even though events were unfolding at the time and there were other protests going on.)
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