Thread: Sen. Hagel Rips into Bush — and Rush Limbaugh

Sen. Hagel Rips into Bush — and Rush Limbaugh

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 6:54 PM

By: Jim Meyers

Outgoing Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel has again gone on the attack against the Bush administration, this time tossing in criticism of the GOP — and conservative talk radio.

Appearing at a forum at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, the Nebraska legislator — who did not run for re-election this year — said sarcastically:

"We are educated by the great entertainers like Rush Limbaugh. You know, I wish Rush Limbaugh and others like that would run for office. They have so much to contribute and so much leadership and they have an answer for everything. And they would be elected overwhelmingly.

“They try to rip everyone down and make fools of everybody but they don't have any answers."

Hagel offered what amounted to a plea for the next administration and Congress to find a way to work together.

"Eighty-seven percent of the American people said America is going in the wrong direction," he said in remarks reported by the Huffington Post.

"You don't need to know another number about anything, and so the election was pretty predictable: the American people don't like what is going on ... They want us to start doing what leaders are expected to do, address the problems, find some consensus to governing. Get along. There will be disagreements, sure ... but in the end we can't hold ourselves captives to this raw, partisan, political paralysis."

Reflecting on the Bush administration, Hagel declared:

"Yes, there have been some differences and some pretty significant ones in [the Republican Party]. But when you ask the question: 'Has [our approach] worked?’ I don't think many people will say it has worked."

Criticizing the GOP's approach to foreign policy, Hagel said: "Engagement is not appeasement. Diplomacy is not retreat. Somehow too many in this town and in this country have disconnected all of that."

On a lighter note, Hagel quipped about financier Warren Buffet, who seems to have weathered the current financial meltdown.

“There is news today that [Obama] is in serious negotiations with Warren Buffet for Buffet to buy the entire United States government," Hagel said.

“I am seeking the job of Buffet's driver. He is the only one who has money.â€

Hagel has never been a friend of ours either.

Rush has answers....he has constantly told Republicans to stop acting like democrats and this bi-partianship is pure BS. It's only bi-partisan when people AGREE with the left. They don't cross aisles. Republicans have become so weak-kneed, they just want to be like democrats and be liked. Conservative principles work and the great Reagan landslide was brought about by bringing liberals OVER to the conservative side, not becoming democrat lite!

Dr. Lyle Rossiter's new book "The LIBERAL MIND" analyzes liberals from a psychologists standpoint. It only confirms what conservatives already know.

Wasn't it Hagel who called a news conference in NEbraska just to tell people he had NOTHING to tell them? He is so full of himself!