Former GOP Senator Chuck Hagel: Republican Party Has ‘An Astounding Lack Of Responsible Leadership’

[Cali_Democrat]

Video at the link provided. :popcorn:

Former GOP Senator Chuck Hagel: Republican Party Has ‘An Astounding Lack Of Responsible Leadership’
By Tanya Somanader on Aug 31, 2011 at 4:01 pm

Former GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel (NE) can’t muster any praise for his Republican colleagues’ behavior in Congress over the past few months. In an interview with the Financial Times, Hagel blasted GOP leadership for their “irresponsible actions” during the debt ceiling debacle, noting that “I think about some of the presidents we’ve had on my side of the aisle — Ronald Reagan, George Bush Sr., go right through them, Eisenhower — they would be stunned.”

“Disgusted” with the debt ceiling negotiations, Hagel called it “an astounding lack of responsible leadership by many in the Republican party, and I say that as a Republican.” “Does anyone not believe what’s happened here the last couple weeks in the market was not a complete, direct result of the lack of confidence that came out of that folly, that embarrassment?” he asked.

Read more...http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/31/309366/former-gop-senator-chuck-hagel-republican-party-has-an-astounding-lack-of-responsible-leadership/

[Cirque du So-What]

1. What is he up to?

If he's planning a late announcement, statements of that sort place him head-and-shoulders above the cretins currently in the race.

[kenfrequed]

2. Hmm...

I expected a gentleman patrician sort of candidate to slip into the race at some point. I don't think he is stalking about for that. Republicans tend to get more rational when the frenzy around political office has dimmed and the contributors clammering for attention have relaxed and the religious lunatics stop bothering them so much.

[TwilightGardener]

3. I doubt it. He's genuinely just disgusted, is my guess.

[Inuca]

7. Agree

and probably enjoying doing what he likes doing away from the spotlight.

[texshelters]

4. I just think Hagel is

demonstrating the kind of patriotism, a desire to work for the benefit of the people living in the United States, that Palin, Bachmann, Perry, Gingrich and all current Congressional Republicans lack.

Peace,
Tex Shelters

[Major Hogwash]

5. Chuck's a good man. Got out while the getting was good.

Can't blame him now.
He screwed the pooch while he was in the Senate, but now the dawg is dead.

[atheistprogress]

6. How can you be responsible

if you refuse to acknowledge science as being a science. Their religion allows them to be forgiven for their mistakes... so they keep making them.