Chuck Hagel is not very smart...

The only one who didn't see this coming is Chuck Hagel...

Instapundit: Now he tells us (Worst.President.Ever), What a shock, Hillary is not too smart either, The White House is fine with breaking promises, a legacy of fakery, and so what does this say about President Obama?

So when Obama goes through multiple secretaries of defense, is it them or Obama?
Rush Limbaugh: Obama explains why he did not respond to San Bernardino Attack
Lem's Levity: Frogs surprisingly like humans (what about scorpions)
AoSHQ: Chuck Hagel is an idiot

Separated at Birth: Chuck Hagel and…?

Chuck Hagel and Eeyore, Soul Brothers

Which one is the turkey?

Instapundit: Hagel out as Secretary of Defense

AoSHQ: Hagel out and under the bus...

Lid: Booted or just incompetent?

Last Refuge: The wheels on the bus go thump, thump, thump...
Hot Air: Not up to the job
PJ Tattler: Hagel Unchained (gave a candid interview)
Hagel frustrated with Obama
How Hagel was Dumped
Wombat : Hagel Out
Belmont Club: Hagel Gone…
Instapundit: How Hagel got the boot (Valerie?),… Obama morphs into GWB (but only his bad parts),… how do you spell scapegoat?...and he was bad but still better than his boss...

Chuck Hagel admits Obama White House mishandled the Bergdahl Terrorist Swap

 The Buck Stops Here (at the Goat)

"We didn't handle some of this right," Hagel admitted to the House Armed Services Committee, toward the end of the first public hearing on the prisoner exchange.

Hagel has to take the sins of the Obama Administration.

Update:
Blogmocracy: Under the bus Chuck!
Catch and Release? Let's do it again: Gabe Malor at AoSHQ links to this: The 9/11 role of one of the Taliban Five…
TOM: If Hillary Clinton can't handle NPR… how can she handle foreign policy?

White House blames Bergdahl Deal on Chuck Hagel

It was Chuck Hagel's Call!

It is always some white Republican's fault!

Update:
More from AoSHQ and Hot Air
Instapundit: Now the White House claims it was Obama's choice… (again)  The VA is still Hagel's issue!

Was it worth it? These are the five Taliban detainees being released from Guantanamo in exchange for Bergdahl:

(From left to right) Mohammad Nabi Omari, Abdul Haq Wasiq, Mullah Norullah Noori, Mullah Mohammad Fazl, and Khirullah Said Wali Khairkhwa. 

Congress was not notified.  Hagel defends decision not notifying Congress, saying Bowe Bergdahl's life was in jeopardy.

Asked if this type of swap might embolden other militants to take hostages, Hagel said that this operation was a prisoner exchange. And he said terrorist groups are already kidnapping young school girls, business people and other innocent people. 

Hagel declined to say whether he believes Bergdahl was attempting to desert the Army or go absent without leave when he walked away from his unit and disappeared nearly five years ago. 

"Our first priority is assuring his well-being and his health and getting him reunited with his family," Hagel said. "Other circumstances that may develop and questions -- those will be dealt with later."

Update:
Hagel is delusional if he thinks releasing these five will contribute to long term peace… 
Taliban joyous over Bergdahl swap (vow to get all their detainees released)

Candy Crowley asked if there was a conscious decision by the Administration to break the law…

The @bobbergdahl account has deleted this tweet pic.twitter.com/o2GCsojV3A
— S.M (@redsteeze) June 1, 2014

Twitchy has this gem from Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's dad 
Smitty: The World's Youngest Blogger Finds The President's Credibility…

 Wombat Live at Five : Mixed reactions, Hagel defends, WH "doesn't give shit" why Bergdahl got captured…

Richard Fernandez notes a disturbing trend...

Jon Corzine, loses billions of
dollars of investor funds

Bob Menendez with
a young "supporter"

Chuck Hagel Doesn't like
Republicans, Jews or Gays

As Richard Fernandez notes:  There are no consequences for political failure or even consequences for crimes and corruption.  Democrats (or Republicans who support Democrats) are, with a few exceptions, not held accountable.

Robert Menendez is a shameful example.  But also Jon Corzine.  And as the Belmont Club notes, Hillary Clinton's performance in connection with Benghazi and Chuck Hagel's past comments and his pathetic performance in front of the Senate.  But we see similar things all the time such as George Bush getting the blame for the down turn and economic recession, but no accountability at all for Democrats like Barney Frank involved and mostly responsible in the matter.  Similarly, Bush getting blamed for Hurricane Katrinia when the failures really were due to Democrats Mayor Nagin and Governor Blanco (and Obama getting nothing but praise for a similar performance in dealing with Hurricane Sandy).  It goes on and on.

How do they have the ability to do this?  Part of it is shameless partisanship.  Democrat politicians will protect their own (like Harry Reid saying Menendez did nothing wrong...).  And it especially helps to have a media that bends over backwards to protect Democrats and fellow liberals.

I can understand Democrats defending Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton over Benghazi (even if what they did was terribly wrong and a cover up of their incompetence).  But the media should at least evenly call them on it (as they would for any Republican in such a position).  But the kid glove treatment for Corzine, Menendez, and Hagel by Democrats and the liberal media is just especially shameful and disgraceful.  It is unhealthy for Democrats and the country to protect and promote this (by not acting to curtail it themselves).

Update:
TOM notes:  Time to wake up about the Fox Trap.  It is not enough.
Fernandez/Belmont Club: Why Bob Menendez might survive this...
Is Bob Menendez doomed?  

Chris Matthews goes crazy because Obama Department of Defense Nominee Chuck Hagel made a fool out of himself yesterday...

Chris Matthews goes crazy (again)
Badgering the witness is too nice a description of what went on today. The hawks swirled 
like buzzards sweeping down, pecking and pulling at the skin of a former colleague.
Chris Matthews describing the Chuck Hagel Hearing
Is Matthews acknowledging that Hagel is carrion?
His shameless MSNBC college 
Joe Scarborough piles on too.

Meanwhile even the Obama White House is expressing disappointment with Chuck Hagel's performance.

Even Bob Schieffer at CBS News notes Hagel's nomination may be in trouble.

Update:
Mark Steyn:  Easy to see why Iran likes Hagel...
Jeff Goldstein/Protein Wisdom on Republicans standing up to Hagel
Legal Insurrection:  Chuck Hagel should be roast, not just toast.

Meanwhile this post of mine seems to have caught the attention of potential Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel:

BrandonFebruary 1, 2013 at 12:56 PM

Palestine is a side issue. The main issue is the jewish control of the US gov. and the breaking up of the country and it's going down in "flames" because of it. The so-called nation of Israel is an illegitimate state founded on deception and terrorism and blackmail/bribery. It's how they operate and is how the American govt is controlled by zionists and jewry in high places in the country.

As soon as Truman, pushed and blackmailed by jews that Roosevelt brought in, approved the institution of the jew terrorist state in 1948, he signed the death certificate of this country, which is being carried out in the present evil age via all the "ism's"

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   Evi L. BloggerladyFebruary 1, 2013 at 5:35 PM

   Chuck Hagel, why are you posting under the name Brandon?

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h/t to the Feral Irishman for the image.