{"id":1914,"date":"2008-06-20T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2008-06-20T18:13:15","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T22:13:15","slug":"chuck-hagel-sucks-canal-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1914","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Hagel sucks canal water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/hagel.jpg\" title=\"hagel.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/hagel.jpg\" title=\"hagel.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/hagel.jpg\" alt=\"hagel.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That other &#8220;maverick&#8221; Republican, Chuck Hagel, announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanluisobispo.com\/news\/politics\/story\/393286.html\" target=\"_blank\">he&#8217;d accept a VP offer <\/a>from Obama. Ain&#8217;t that precious? Last year, Hagel was the first one to cave to Democrats on the war and urged immediate withdrawal from Iraq. Now, he&#8217;s joining his personal loser politics to those of the perpetually wrong Democrats. He made a good move when he decided that he&#8217;d retire after this term, but he&#8217;s  lingering way too long.<\/p>\n<p>Hagel&#8217;s even been practicing his Obama-without-the-teleprompter answers;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If it would occur, I would have to think about it,&#8221; Hagel said. &#8220;I think anybody, anybody would have to consider it. Doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;d do it, doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;d accept it, could be too many gaps there, but you&#8217;d have to consider it, it&#8217;s the only thing you could do. Why wouldn&#8217;t you?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why couldn&#8217;t you just say &#8220;No&#8221; instead of making a goofy dolt of yourself. In 2006, Hagel helped us get recognition for National Airborne Day, and he even had his staff call me to thank me for helping get the legislation passed. But I think soon after that his brain fell right out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That other &#8220;maverick&#8221; Republican, Chuck Hagel, announced that he&#8217;d accept a VP offer from Obama. Ain&#8217;t &hellip; <a title=\"Chuck Hagel sucks canal water\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1914\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chuck Hagel sucks canal water<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}