The confirmation hearing is now scheduled to begin on January 31, and the concrete date should hasten the efforts of Hagel's most vociferous critics, who haven't really backed down,
President Obama nominated former Hagel as his next Secretary of Defense Monday afternoon, urging the Senate to "act on these nominations promptly," but the conservatives behind ChuckHagel.com were already acting on promoting their dark vision of a Hagel Pentagon
After weeks of speculation and before weeks of heated partisan bickering over his appointee's controversial record, President Obama will nominate former Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense "as early as Monday."
If Chuck Hagel is going to be the next Secretary of Defense, a newly surfaced comment could ignite a confirmation battle already full of divisiveness — and now with semi-fresh details about his already controversial positions on Israel.
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