vendredi 15 février 2013

Be patient Mr Hagel, be patient...

Republican Chuck Hagel testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, January 31, 2013. Photo by AP

Dear students, dear readers,
It's not that hard to imagine why US' Senate Republicans tried to block Hagel's nomination for Defense Post :

Don’t Let Pro-Israel Extremists Sink Chuck Hagel

POLITICAL movements that depend on broad popular support but are driven by extremists can eventually become self-destructive — a lesson the Republican Party learned at great cost in November, and which the gun-rights lobby may be about to learn in the wake of the latest school shooting.
There is also a lesson here for American Jewish leaders, who increasingly tremble in the face of a small minority of zealots, whose vision of Israel’s future diverges from that of the majority of American Jews and clashes with core American values of freedom and democracy.

G.O.P. Blocks Vote in Senate on Hagel for Defense Post

Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked President Obama’s nominee to lead the Pentagon in a defiant move likely to further strain partisan tensions while preventing the White House, at least temporarily, from assembling its second-term national security team.
In a result that broke down almost strictly along party lines, Democratic senators could not muster the support to advance the nomination of Chuck Hagel, a former Republican senator from Nebraska, to a final vote. The vote was 58 to 40, falling short of the 60 that were needed.

What about the analysis of Israelian newspaper's Haaretz ?

U.S. Senate Republicans delay vote on Hagel's nomination

Republicans say they need more time to review Benghazi attack. Majority Leader Reid criticizes filibuster, calls unprecedented move 'tragic.'

Republican senators delayed former Sen. Chuck Hagel's nomination to be President Barack Obama's next secretary of defense at least temporarily Thursday, in a bold, rare exercise of the Senate's power to block one of the president's choices for his cabinet.
Republicans denied they were rejecting Hagel's nomination, insisting instead that they need more time to get more information on last year's attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. Several took to the Senate floor Thursday and said that Hagel ultimately will be confirmed.

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