Chuck Hagel

Is it just me, or did Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel jack John McCain's "maverick," busting heads with your own party angle , years ago? Ever since McCain cuddled up to Georgie Porgie in hopes of tricking the party base into liking him, that whole "maverick/Country First" label reads more like "party capitulator/McCain First." Hagel didn't mince words. He's a member of the club . Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska yesterday became the nation’s most prominent Republican officeholder to publicly...Read Full Story

Oil producer Chevron Corp. said Wednesday it has nominated former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel and Wells Fargo & Co. CEO John Stumpf to its board of directors. Shareholders will vote on the nominations at the company's annual shareholder meeting May 26. If approved, the move will bring Chevron's board to 16 members. Hagel now serves as distinguished professor at Georgetown University and the University of Nebraska at Omaha as well as acting as chairman of the Atlantic Council, a Washington...Read Full Story

USA Today Republican Chuck Hagel backs Democrat in Pa. Senate race USA Today Republican Chuck Hagel, the former Nebraska senator, will endorse Democrat Rep. Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania's competitive US Senate race. Hagel, who served in the Senate from 1997 through 2008, told the Associated Press that Sestak has demonstrated a ... APNewsBreak: Hagel backing Pa.'s Sestak for Senate The Associated Press Toomey On Tour; Sestak Endorsed WFMZ Allentown Report: Ex-Sen. Hagel backing Sestak The Hill...Read Full Story

US President Barack Obama on Wednesday named two distinguished ex-senators to a board tasked with providing him with objective advice in intelligence matters free of political bias. Republican Chuck Hagel and Democrat David Boren will both serve as co-chairman of the President?s Intelligence Advisory Board, which offers oversight of the quality, effectiveness and performance of US intelligence agencies. US intelligence agencies have endured a grim few years following the failure to disrupt...Read Full Story

Barack “Reagan” Obama Well, whether they know it yet or not, former Rep. Jim Leach (R-Iowa) and former Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.), who are touting Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) as “the presidential candidate who represents the traditional conservatism that they feel has been forgotten” under President George W. Bush, are in for a slight surprise. Leach and Chafee were joined in a conference call announcement by Rita E. Hauser , a former member of Bush’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board...Read Full Story

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that faux Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel from Nebraska will be joining Barack Obama on his Iraq trip. I can’t imagine why anyone would be surprised by this development. Hagel is a perfect Iraq companion, because like Obama, Hagel is clueless about the success of the surge or what’s happening over there. This has been a long time coming and is nothing more than an elaborate media ruse. Hagel’s trip to Iraq with Obama is the precursor to Hagel’s full...Read Full Story

Thank God for the ever-reasonable Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) : Hagel may be the only senior Republican elected official who has publicly criticized McCain’s choice of Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. “ I don’t believe she’s qualified to be President of the United States,” Hagel told me. “The first judgment a potential President makes is who their running mate is—and I don’t think John made a very good selection.” He scoffed at McCain’s attempts to portray her as an experienced...Read Full Story

I love how Chuck Hagel is always running around pretending to be courageous by bashing president Bush and republicans. It’s only courageous when you’re actually a member of the party you’re bashing. Hagel was written off by most republicans years ago when he joined with the cowardly democrats against the Iraq war. The reality is that Hagel’s been auditioning for a prime spot in an Obama administration for at least 2 years. Which is why the Bush bashing, Limbaugh bashing, and general...Read Full Story

President Barack Obama says two former senators will lead an advisory board charged with giving him unvarnished counsel about the nation's intelligence. The president on Wednesday introduced Republican Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Democrat David Boren of Oklahoma as co-chairmen of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board. The job of the board is to provide Obama with an independent source of advice about the effectiveness of the intelligence community. At a Cabinet Room event, Obama said...Read Full Story

Greed is good. A world without nukes is better. Actor Michael Douglas, whose performance as the conniving Gordon Gekko in "Wall Street" won him an Oscar in 1987, spent part of Wednesday evening focused on a more critical cause — ridding the world of nuclear weapons. Douglas moderated a panel of Washington experts on the issue — former Sens. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., and Sam Nunn, D-Ga., and Robert Gallucci, a former U.S. diplomat who was chief negotiator during the nuclear crisis with North Korea...Read Full Story