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Well its about time!

Hagel is calling it quits

Chuck Hagel will announce Monday that he is retiring from the U.S. Senate and will not run for president next year, people close to the Nebraska Republican said Friday.

Hagel plans to announce that “he will not run for re-election and that he does not intend to be a candidate for any office in 2008,” said one person, who asked not to be named.

Hagel has scheduled a press conference for 10 a.m. Monday at the Omaha Press Club.

According to one person interviewed, Hagel told Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky on Friday morning that he had decided to retire. Hagel’s staff learned of his decision that afternoon.

The North Platte native earned national recognition as perhaps the most vocal, at times angry, GOP critic of the Bush administration’s Iraq policies.

Well that is probably the time when I became most aware of him. When he started courting media and democrat attention by undermining the war effort.

Chuck I am damn glad to see you go. One less RINO in the senate certainly won’t hurt.

I recently sent an email to Senator Lugar, my home state senator. Well I received a response to said email today and thought I would share it.

It was certainly nice of him and his staff to take the time to put this letter together, but I still don’t buy it and I still won’t be voting to send him back to Washington.

If you are a conservative Republican out there looking to unseat this ol’ timer from office, I would be interested in listening to what you have to say and possibly supporting you in the next election. FWIW!

Below are scans of the actual letter if you would like to take a look:
Letter from Senator Lugar Page 1
Letter from Senator Lugar Page 2
Letter from Senator Lugar Page 3

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Thanks for Supporting us Senator Lugar.

Yes that is what I am sure the terrorists that seek our distruction as well as the “Peace at any Price” democrats in congress and the media are saying to you today. “Thanks for Supporting us Senator Lugar”.

This along with your cock-eyed views on immigration are the reasons I will not be voting for you in your next run for the senate and will work feverishly in opposition to you ever being elected again.

The following from NRO The Corner today says it well:

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Y2Q1YTg3OGIwNjkwNGZkMDM0ZjNiZDdjOTMzOTYyNjE=
Lugar   [Rich Lowry]I like him. He’s a serious, sober guy. But I don’t see how his strategic goals set out in his speech yesterday—keeping Iraq from being a safe haven from terrorists; keeping the sectarian strife in Iraq from destabilizing the region; checking Iranian ambitions in the region; and protecting U.S. credibility—would be furthered by his vague proposal for a strategic re-deployment. In fact, his re-deployment would almost certainly harm us in all those areas. What he is basically saying is that the war is lost, and all the rest of it—a diplomatic offensive, forging progress on the Arab-Israeli conflict, etc.—is window-dressing. A big reason he says we can’t win is “the timetable imposed by our own domestic political process.” Lugar is of course part of the “domestic political process,” and he will now do more than his fair share to impose that timetable.A couple of political observations: 1) John Warner is probably kicking himself because he wanted to be the first Republican senate luminary to break with Bush; 2) Lugar will be deified by the media and liberal pundit class in coming days; 3) The Democrats will rush to embrace Lugar. Don’t be surprised if there isn’t a Lugar-Biden resolution sometime soon; 4) Many Republicans will be awfully tempted to go Lugar’s way, because it offers a third way between the surge and withdrawal that promises—most importantly for them—a way to try to dodge voter anger over the war; 5) The forces within the Bush administration that want to begin to scale-back our commitment will get a boost. In sum, Lugar’s speech is substantively lacking, but could well mark a significant political moment.06/26 05:01 PMhttp://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MTBhYWZhODU3MjEyZjcxMzljNDI2OGQ5MDk0NWMxYTQ=
Lugar (more)   [Michael Ledeen]I’m glad Rich likes Lugar, because there aren’t many who do, and it’s true he’s pleasant enough. Indeed, he’s a foreign service officer masquerading as a political leader. I have watched him for about thirty years, and I cannot recall a moment of courage, not one time when he set himself against the conventional wisdom, nor challenged a policy before the winds had shifted against it. He was chairman of Foreign Relations for several years. What did he accomplish? Nothing. He behaved in total synch with Biden, which says it all. He had hearing on Iran, and only invited witnesses approved by Powell and Rice and their people, never a clear dissenting voice.It was predictable for him to join the calls for retreat, as he had already been a leading soprano in the appeasement choir. It wouldn’t surprise me if Biden asked him to do it, in order to show that the establishment Pubs have abandoned the war (surprise!) I wonder what ever happened to the Hoosiers. They fired Bobby Knight and reelect Lugar by huge margins.06/26 05:24 PM

Enjoy the embrace from the media and your democrat appeasers. Conservative Hoosiers no longer have a conservative voice in the U.S. Senate and I look forward to the day
that you and Evan Bayh no longer represent us.

Keith D. Milby

UPDATE: A Response from Senator Lugar

Lugar urges change of course in Iraq

WASHINGTON - Sen. Richard Lugar called Monday for a change in U.S. strategy in Iraq - a departure for the senior Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who had been generally sticking by the administration.“The costs and risks of continuing down the current path outweigh the potential benefits that might be achieved,” Lugar said in a lengthy speech on the Senate floor. “Persisting indefinitely with the surge strategy will delay policy adjustments that have a better chance of protecting our vital interests in the long term.”

“The Surge” has only just begun and he is starting to go all wobbly. I think it is time for our long time senator from Indiana to go. He has probably seen better days. Time for some new blood with a fresh perspective.

This along with his crazy stands on immigration, I am afraid I will be looking for someone else to vote for next time around.

This in reference to his stupid position on Iraq and probably just about everything else. Nebraska, you have nothing to be proud of in this guy.

From the Associated Press: McCain: Rumsfeld Was One of the Worst

BLUFFTON, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Monday the war in Iraq has been mismanaged for years and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will be remembered as one of the worst in history.

“We are paying a very heavy price for the mismanagement - that’s the kindest word I can give you - of Donald Rumsfeld, of this war,” the Arizona senator told an overflow crowd of more than 800 at a retirement community near Hilton Head Island, S.C. “The price is very, very heavy and I regret it enormously.”

I will never like this guy. I don’t trust this guy and can only hope and pray that he will never be President. Only an insignificant spineless senator from Arizona. I hope that won’t be for much longer.

Never trust an enemy and never trust John McCain, NOT to thrust a knife in your back.

With all of this talk in the Senate about a resolution for quitting Iraq, why aren’t these morons trying to pass a resolution for Victory in Iraq?

We have only ourselves to blame for electing these idiots.

Republicans! Expect no support from me if you can’t support the mission.

Take the Pledge.

Don’t support the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) if they continue down this path. Don’t give them another dime of your money.

From MSNBC: Senate opposition to Bush
plan grows

“WASHINGTON - President Bush’s decision to deploy 21,500 additional troops to
Iraq drew fierce opposition Thursday from congressional Democrats and some Republicans
— among them Sen. Chuck Hagel, who called it “the most dangerous foreign policy blunder
in this country since Vietnam.”

The Nebraska Republican vowed to “resist” the plan, but
the Senate’s top Republican, Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., threatened a filibuster to block
any legislation expressing disapproval of Bush’s strategy.

Democrats, who number 51 in the Senate, plan to offer a
nonbinding resolution that would make clear where each senator stands. “I think that
(bipartisan passage) will be the beginning of the end of the war in Iraq,” Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday.”

Chuck Hagel needs to come out of the closet and cross over to the dark side and join
the democrats.

The Conservative Movement cannot make advances with RINO’s like Hagel.