out of him that played into and confirmed their public smears of him beforehand. They wanted him to say something anti-Israel, anti-Semite, soft on Iran, and would unilaterally disarm ourselves of all nukes. He avoided all of those traps, and instead said the opposite of all of those things, over and over, without contradicting himself, for eight fucking hours. They also wanted him to somehow wound Obama inadvertently by disagreeing with his policies, drive a wedge and exploit it--he didn't do that either, but reinforced that he agrees with Obama.

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.@KatrinaNation LETS REVIEW: #Hagel expected tough questions pertaining to the position. He did NOT expect a #neocon mental torture session

out republican bullshit, batshit crapola. It is sickening that they are still doing the "both sides do it" when they factually do not.

They are talking very openly about the idiocy of the republican'ts.

I've noticed that MSNBC is on the story. The media as a whole is not doing its job.

I'm sick of their characterization of the republicans as people who are on top of anything. The republicans are vicious bullies who don't give a whack about the USA.

McCain and right-wing cohorts now resemble a pack of rabid jackals.

2. The media fears him for exactly the same reason.

Both are equally culpable in that which he criticizes.

Can't have that. Not in public.

McCain and others have been talking about it for months, ever since his nomination was considered.

Yes, they were nasty. McCain trying to compensate for who knows what.

But the White House should have prepared him just like... they prepared Obama for the second and third debates.

And I think that had Hagel continued to talk through McCain tirade, saying something like: "Senator, if you will let me reply" perhaps Senator Levin would have pounded his gavel and intervened.