Buzz in the Senate: Defense Nominee Sen. Hagel wasn't so hot in nomination hearing
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[quote]Several senators told CNN that during a series of Senate floor votes during a break in the hearing that Hagel's lackluster performance, in the opinion of many senators, was all the buzz on the Senate floor.
One senator who is undecided but was not at the Armed Services Committee hearing says it is "all the talk – I mean all the talk." Fellow senators are "shocked" by how ill prepared Hagel seemed for basic questions about controversial comments he has made, this senator said.
A Democrat on the committee supporting Hagel shook his head in disbelief, saying he was surprised Hagel was not more forceful, especially since he has been on the other side of the dais and knows how this works. Hagel served in the Senate from 1997 through 2008.
Another undecided senator - this one who serves on the committee responsible for vetting Hagel's nomination - was also taken aback that Hagel didn't have better answers for Sen. John McCain's pointed questions, especially on the Iraq surge. The senator said Hagel could have simply said "the Iraq war was wrong, but once we were there, the surge was the right way to go."[/quote]
[url]http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/31/buzz-in-the-senate-hagel-wasnt-so-hot-in-hearing/[/url]
Watching him stumble and stutter was hilarious. He honestly looked like a kid being grilled by his parents. He couldn't even answer simple yes or no questions.
[QUOTE=UziXxX;39453482]Watching him stumble and stutter was hilarious. He honestly looked like a kid being grilled by his parents. He couldn't even answer simple yes or no questions.[/QUOTE]To be fair, a lot of the "simple yes or no questions" were designed to make him look bad. Things like "Was the surge in Iraq successful" is a complex issue, and McCains "[B]Yes or no Senator it's a simple question![/B]" whenever he tried to explain his answer didn't help.
Sounds like he is being [b]hagled[/b].
These aren't incredibly easy questions, does he have a natural stutter or a nervous stutter?
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