'Senator, shut your mouth. Do what the president tells you to do

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-01-12-voa5.cfm

Republican Senator Criticizes Bush Administration Over Iraq

One vocal critic of the Bush administration is a member of the president's own party. Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska says he worries about the United States getting bogged down in Iraq, and about what he sees as an unhealthy concentration of power in the presidency. The outspoken senator shared his views at a town hall meeting in Los Angeles.

Senator Hagel says he sometimes gets e-mails calling him a traitor. "One of the comments that I received lately was a very straightforward piece of advice, that is, 'Senator, shut your mouth. Do what the president tells you to do. That's why we elected you.'"

The senator reminded his listeners that the U.S. government has three equal partners, the legislature and the judiciary, in addition to the president and his administration.

The blunt words, he adds, are not what he hears from his fellow senators, but he admits that some Republican colleagues think he is out of line in his public statements. He repeated some of his criticisms in a meeting sponsored by the group Town Hall Los Angeles, held in the newly opened National Center for the Preservation of Democracy. He says progress in Iraq is up to the Iraqis.

[AX10]

1. KICK

:kick:

[arcane1]

2. kicking

sadly, it's rebubes with a hint of humanity who are going to save us :evilfroen:

[FreedomAngel82]

4. He isn't a traitor

I still have some doubts with him and ES&S machines but anybody who speaks out against Iraq isn't a traitor. So sad how they call him that. He and Walter Jones should team up.

[arcane1]

6. no, he's NOT

we cannot say that enough

[yourout]

3. The first Puke to announce his candidacy for the President of the ....

United States is Senator Chuck Hagel.

[FreedomAngel82]

5. He's been out spoken since 2003

[Vinnie From Indy]

7. Nothing like owning an electronic voting company eh Senator?

Wasn't Chuckles an owner of ES&S Voting Systems PRIOR to being elected Senator?

[punpirate]

8. Well, he was CEO of ES&S...

... and did not properly identify his interest in the McCarthy Group, which was the principal stockholder and manager of shares in ES&S after he became a senator. That was sort of buried by the Senate Ethics Committee.