Broken US Senate: Repubs won't accept another Repub as Secretary of Defense

by: Zappatero

Mon Jan 07, 2013 at 11:07:48 AM MST

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-Confederacy) also attacked Hagel for opposing President Bush's troop surge in Iraq in 2007. "I'll have a hard time voting for anybody to be Secretary of Defense who believes that the surge was a foreign policy blunder," Graham said on CNN today.

But Graham also said during the same interview that he supports Sen. John Kerry's (D-MA) nomination as the next Secretary of State. "I respect him," Graham said of Kerry, adding, "I think he's a thoughtful man. I think he's in the mainstream."

But who else thought the Iraq surge was a bad idea? John Kerry (and Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama). And while it's unclear what effect Bush's surge had on the ultimate outcome of the war, one thing is clear: Graham's continued Iraq war boosting is way outside the mainstream, as a large majority of Americans think the war was not worth fighting.

A radical, obstructionist, right-wing Senator from the Confederacy is calling Chuck Hagel "out of the mainstream."

This proves the US Senate is broken and the filibuster must be reformed ASAP.