Hagel: Republican Meeting With Bush Is ‘Just The Tip Of The Iceberg’ Of Conservative Dissent
Hagel: Republican Meeting With Bush Is ‘Just The Tip Of The Iceberg’ Of Conservative Dissent
Last week, a group of 11 congressional Republicans met with President Bush to express their frustration with the state of the Iraq war, pleading with Bush to change his unpopular Iraq policy.
Today, Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) said, “The 11 House Republicans who went to see him speak for more than just 11 House Republicans. That’s just the tip of the iceberg.” Hagel said that president “may find himself standing alone sometime this fall,” noting that several conservatives are beginning to back “trap doors and exit signs” to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq.
Watch it:
Hagel’s comments undermine the spin of top conservative leaders like House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), who last week said “House Republicans are united in support” of Bush’s stay-the-course Iraq policy.
Transcript:
HAGEL: There’s no question there is a very clear political dynamic here. The President may find himself standing alone sometime this fall, where Republicans will start to move away. And you’re starting to see trap doors and exit signs already with a number of Republicans. The 11 House Republicans who went to see him speak for more than just 11 House Republicans. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. The uneasiness that’s in the Republican Party today is there.
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Don’t be silly, Hagel. Republicans will still vote the party line, and hell, that’s all this admin cares about.
May 13th, 2007 at 12:11 pmHagel talks the talk, but he must now walk the walk and call for Bush to resign or be impeached.
May 13th, 2007 at 12:12 pmRepublicans need to get on board with impeachment now. They can’t afford to wait until September. But they don’t seem to get it. They have painted themselves into a corner and can’t get out of it. They are heading for near destruction in the 2008 elections.
May 13th, 2007 at 12:14 pmhALLO mISTRESS z!!!oops caps lock. So you’re free(for now!)!! Congradulations on finishing your tests!!!
May 13th, 2007 at 12:15 pm#4 — Heh. Is that you, whitey?
I hope your new job pays well. Not even Lewis Black has a personal ball washer…. :D
May 13th, 2007 at 12:17 pmThe Great Republican Empire,
Is a smoking stinking ruin.
If the even the smallest Republican stain is left (like Bill Kristol for example) they need to be beat hounded relentlessly for the rest of their lives.
May 13th, 2007 at 12:27 pmHagel is lying Boner (sic) was telling the truth for once. A
ny dissent amongst the rethug ranks is PSYOP designed to convince the folks back home, where the boy king is growing less and less popular. They want to be able to go home and tell the knowledge challenged “See I stood up to Bush on the war” while all the time marching in lock-step with the junta.
May 13th, 2007 at 12:27 pmHagel must be the tip of the iceberg, but most of the GOP membership is the berg under the sea. They may never be seen.
May 13th, 2007 at 12:38 pmIs it Impeachment, yet?
May 13th, 2007 at 12:40 pmShorter Hagel: “We want to be re-elected!”
May 13th, 2007 at 12:42 pmI’d be backing the trap door thingy, as long as there was a culpable politician falling through it with a ropy thing around the neck.
May 13th, 2007 at 12:44 pmIt’s all talk… only talk… elephant talk…
May 13th, 2007 at 12:46 pmIf Bush withdraws from Iraq Now – the horror stories that come out will finish his final months as to being KICKED out of office thats why he cant withdraw
May 13th, 2007 at 12:50 pmSee… Bush IS a uniter.
May 13th, 2007 at 12:55 pm#12 nice King Crimson reference
May 13th, 2007 at 12:56 pmoops
:D
May 13th, 2007 at 12:58 pmHagel, watch your back.
May 13th, 2007 at 12:58 pmIt took the conservatives in Congress this long to wise up. Year after year of a deteriorating situation and now they say this isn’t going well. NO F$CKING SH&T you dumb M#therF#ckers!! All they care about is their own re election. No one going to forget how Hagel and the other Rep. waxed Bush’s balls for the last six years. They will never distance themselves from Bush unless he’s impeached.
May 13th, 2007 at 12:59 pmThey will never distance themselves from Bush unless he’s impeached.
Comment by buzzbomb — May 13, 2007 @ 12:59 pm
And, if they’re smart, they’ll realize a Republican led charge of Impeachment is the only way they’re going to get votes outside their 30% (and declining) base.
May 13th, 2007 at 1:06 pmHagel says the right stuff but votes along party lines over 95% of the time. He is a brownshirt at heart and has been a rubberneck the majority of the time.
May 13th, 2007 at 1:06 pmDisappeared without a trace: over 10,000 Iraqis
glad Ive boycotted McDonald for years
May 13th, 2007 at 1:08 pm234 bodies dumped in Baghdad in only 11 days
May 13th, 2007 at 1:09 pmMeanwhile, back at the surge:
And we are left to hope and pray that Al-Qaida treats our soldiers better than we treat our prisoners.
May 13th, 2007 at 1:10 pmMistrss Z:that’s my 3rd weekend a month job. The job sucks, but the pay is PHENOMENAL!!!!
May 13th, 2007 at 1:11 pmOT :
My favorite moment of the Chimpy Admin id when he was locked out in China. :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL88sO6nOPM
Again, NO EXITS, even then.
May 13th, 2007 at 1:15 pmI should re-say that :
The most telling moment of the Chimpy Admin.
May 13th, 2007 at 1:23 pmIf Hagel needs to be supported, then he must go beyond just talking..
May 13th, 2007 at 1:51 pmHis record must reflect his talking…otherwise his words will remain empty ones.
But when you look at Hagel and compare him to others in his own party…he shines.
Hagel gives aid and comfort to the enemy, which is, in this case, namely, the Democratic party.
May 13th, 2007 at 2:39 pmDon’t be silly, Hagel. Republicans will still vote the party line, and hell, that’s all this admin cares about.
Comment by Mistress Z — May 13, 2007 @ 12:11 pm
Mea Domina, you are correct.
May 13th, 2007 at 2:52 pmSpineless wimps can talk defection all they want.
May 13th, 2007 at 2:53 pmWhen, or should I say IF, they vote to end the war, then I’ll be impressed.
Prez’ personal ball washer? EEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 13th, 2007 at 3:01 pmRepublicans are great at bulling the baloney, but they haven’t quite mastered walking the walk. For the last six years the GOP and the corporate media poodles have been goose-stepping right along with the Bush crime family, covering up their lies, their treason, their torture, their cronyism, their stupidity, their arrogance… And now a few of the Goppers pretend to disagree with the policies of the Boy-King? Gimme a break…
If it lies, cheats and steals like a Republican, then it is a Republican…
May 13th, 2007 at 3:05 pmI have big balls, you see, heheh… they git derrttyy. There’s alotta brush to clear… down there… if ya knowhatimtalkinbout…
May 13th, 2007 at 3:05 pmI don’t believe their is unity in the Republican party. Although, not as prevalent as in the Democrat party, there are many Republicans that are more concerned with poll results and future elections than they are with doing the right thing and fulfilling our committment with the Iraqi people.
May 13th, 2007 at 3:32 pm#12 & 15; No, not elephant talk, it’s elephant shit.
May 13th, 2007 at 3:50 pmCan we trade Chuckie Hagel for Joseph Lieberman?
May 13th, 2007 at 6:22 pmCan we trade Chuckie Hagel for Joseph Lieberman?
Comment by m12 — May 13, 2007 @ 6:22 pm
You already have Lieberman…Hagel votes over 95% of the time along the thug party line. He is just a veteran who knows war is stupid unless forced upon you. Wars for the profits of the military industrial complex and oil companies are wrong. Grow up, get educated.
May 13th, 2007 at 7:16 pmHow many of the chickenhawk chickenshit trolls on this board have served in battle, or even the military? Why do all the generals who have served in Iraq and got out speak against this goofy son of a bitch we have as president? Just curious
May 13th, 2007 at 7:24 pmIn other words, September 11th, The Sequel? Only joker this Joker has left to play.
Gives him a heads up of about four months to ignore the terrorists coming into the country. A lot like last time.
May 13th, 2007 at 9:30 pmThe Republican Party represents a criminal class of people comprising about 15% or the population. I has committed every crime from treason to murder. The time has come to sort out the little crooks from the big crooks and then send the big crooks to Leavenworth.
May 13th, 2007 at 10:05 pmkasinca, even the old coots at my vfw post hate the chymp’s guts.
May 13th, 2007 at 10:25 pmThey know a coward when they smell one.
The stench is overpowering, even on TV.
The only good Republican is a… one defeated in a verified paper trail election. Fuck them all! Its too late to start making sense Chuck!
May 13th, 2007 at 11:17 pmSpeaking about the vfw, I will not belong to any veteran group, seen to many of them with their caps standing up for that lying slimy piece of sh-t.
May 13th, 2007 at 11:27 pmIncidently I served in WW2 and the Korean war. when he speaks before on of those groups ,they strut around him like he is some one of note instead of what he really is, a war criminal.
Hagel wants that number 1 job Chimpy has, this is all about positioning for 2008. Hagel clearly can not be trusted any more than the rest of the thieving Ruthuglicans. Never forget he stole his Nebraska election when his computer vote counting company ES&S brought him to the Senate with very questionable results! He may be against Bush, but not the basic party positions…
May 13th, 2007 at 11:32 pmI guess it’s only now that these regressives are waking up and finding they’re about to be royally f*cked. You’ve all tied your cart to the worst horse in presidential history! Now he’s going to fly all of you into the ground and walk away-maybe to South America. He’s walked away from every other disaster he’s created and it’s fitting that his last and biggest disaster will be to destroy the party that raised him up and fought tooth and nail for his scumbaggery.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:35 amListen, Republicans should have already been outraged when Bush won the Republican nomination, mmmkay? Bush is nor a Republican, nor a Conservative, nor a politician, nor a worthy man…. He’s NOT a man of principle, he’s definitely not a godly man, he’s not here to help anyone but himself and he’s no patriot AT ALL. So how come Republicans keep supporting this fraud? Why have they followed him to the gates of hell? Loyalty for money is such an ugly thing. Republicans should be obligated to either go help the soldiers they claim to support in the hell of Baghdad or commit suicide. No, I’m not exaggerating, thousands have died needlessly, we can sure as hell miss some greedy, filthy lawmakers who are doing nothing for the greater good except to keep yapping about it while shamelessly continuing to enrich themselves. Fictitious times, fictitious politicians, ficticious news and fictitious wars.
May 14th, 2007 at 6:48 amIt is a sad sad day when murderers, war-profiteers, liars, and criminals run what used to be the greatest government on earth. Americans must stand up , demand charges and impeachment and prison for the whole bunch of people you profiled . Every one of them is a war criminal, responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people! And every day, more die!
What are we waiting for?
May 14th, 2007 at 12:17 pmHagel may be one of the few decent Republicans out there.
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