Larry, Moe, Curly and Chuck

On Thursday the 31st of January, former Senator Chuck Hagel, Priest-King's nominee as the next Secretary of Defense, appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee and fell squarely on his face. In a bumbling, inept performance, Mr. Hagel would not admit that he was wrong by opposing the successful 2007 surge in Iraq, and could not (or would not) name a single Senator who had been suborned by the "Jewish lobby" nor anything "dumb" that the Senate had undertaken at such lobby's behest. When presented with a videotaped interview that he gave to Al-Jazeera in which he agreed with a caller that Israel had committed war crimes, he denied saying any such thing, and he didn't know that Priest-King's stated policy toward Iran's nuclear weapons program was prevention, not containment, until an aide hurriedly passed him a note. It was seven-and-a-half hours of watching a man publicly wet himself and I have to admit, from a conservative's point of view, it was entertaining.

Don't get me wrong, though: the Armed Services Committee will still recommend his confirmation by the full Senate and though there are a couple of Republican Senators who have threatened to filibuster his confirmation (Lindsey Graham, John Cornyn), he will still be confirmed as the next Secretary of Defense. Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin and the other members of the Democrat caucus have received their marching orders from Generalissimo Obama, the Priest-King of the People's American Collective and they will ensure that Hagel gets through, no matter how incompetent he looks, because Priest-King cares less about competence than he does about obedience. You see, Priest-King has a vision for the world and that vision includes a weakened America, an America that is just another country, not only unwilling to interfere in the affairs of other nations but unable to do so, and to carry out that vision of a weakened America, he needs people who share his opinions and who will do his bidding no matter how damaging that may be to our national interests, especially in a key position like Secretary of Defense. So where that is concerned, he needs a stooge, and he's found one in Chuck Hagel.

For twelve years in the Senate, Chuck Hagel railed about Israel's influence over American foreign policy, about the plight of the poor Palestinians who have wasted nearly 65 years trying to make Israel go away, about the invasion of Iraq in 2003 (which he approved, by the way), about the black-robed mullahs being the legitimate government of Iran, about the Defense Department's budget being so bloated and more or less about anything that came into his mind. He enjoyed shooting his mouth off and the attention that comes with being a Republican maverick but now he has to explain his opinions, and rather than stand by them with conviction - "I know what I said back then and I still hold that opinion now" - he wavered, he stumbled, he hesitated, he humiliated himself. And knowing that his Democrat supporters will confirm a boob like Chuck Hagel to dismantle the most powerful military in the world, after being so humiliated in front of the cameras, is very revealing about the Leftists who control our government. They would've preferred a smooth, nimble, articulate testimony and failing that, something like Hillary Clinton's combative, confrontational performance two weeks before, but really all they wanted was to check the block. If Chuck Hagel craps the bed and embarrasses everyone who knows him but still gets confirmed, that's all that matters.

Deconstructing the United States into some feeble, wasted hobo, a kind of huge, oafish Finland of the Western Hemisphere, is a noble enterprise for the Left. Defeating, nay, destroying the Soviet Union, blasting Moammar Qaddafi, taking Grenada back from the Communists, resisting Communist encroachment in Nicaragua, defeating Saddam Hussein not once but twice and letting the Iraqi people repay the tyrant for his crimes, defeating the Taliban and shredding Al Qaeda's leadership are all black marks on America's record as far as the Left is concerned. (Killing Osama bin Laden was okay since Priest-King ordered it, as are drone killings of reputed terrorists and the killing of reputed terrorists who are also Americans, for the same reason. The rescue of Captain Richard Phillips from Somali pirates was not okay because the Navy SEALS acted on their own initiative.  Priest-King has to be able to take credit, bottom line.) These were all examples of American imperialism, American arrogance, American insensitivity, American disregard for the interests of other countries like Iran, China and Russia, and they cannot be repeated. The Defense Department has to be hamstrung and Chuck Hagel is the guy willing to wield the knife, and if he looked like an absolute moron all day long on national television, then the Left will just choke that down and vote for him anyway. This is what you said you wanted, America: I hope you knew what you were doing 'cause it sure doesn't look like it.