CORNYN TRASHING HAGEL HURTS COUNTRY

Fifteen senators have signed a letter originating with Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, Senate minority leader. The letter asked Obama to withdraw Hagel’s nomination for Secretary of defense. Stop and think about the purpose this late stage request. Obviously, the President will not honor the request. All observers will know this, so Cornyn and his 15 fellow signatures must know this as well. These Senators are all Republican Senators, which means they are citizens of the United States; therefore, we can assume they do not want to hurt the America. This leaves us with the alternative, which is that they think they are helping their country or are incompetent.

We can seriously question this as a motive because the letter clearly tells the entire world, the stage on which the Secretary of Defense operates that he does not have the full support of the Senate. Unfortunately, I believe their motive is that they do not want to weaken their country but want to hurt Obama—the divide the President from the people and then conquer the people. This is a gross miscalculation perhaps based the attitude found in a small town hall meeting of extreme right wing Cornyn followers in rural Texas—not exactly a window to the world. In contrast to a small group of people in a church basement. President Obama is extremely popular not only in the United States but around the world. The Republican Party is a growing minority, the problem for them is the way they are growing; they are growing smaller and smaller because of poorly conceived actions like this. The result will be that everyone will see these 15 senators for what they are; incompetent and not worthy of the office they hold, which is another way of saying they are radical Republicans. 

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