{"id":5375,"date":"2007-11-29T12:35:56","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T20:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5375"},"modified":"2007-11-29T15:26:01","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T23:26:01","slug":"gop-senator-bush-administration-most-arrogant-incompetent-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=5375","title":{"rendered":"GOP Senator: Bush Administration &#8216;Most Arrogant, Incompetent Ever&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/ChuckHagel.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/11\/28\/AR2007112802273_2.html\"><em>Washington Post<\/em> reports<\/a> on outgoing Republican Senator Chuck Hagel&#8217;s comments last night during an address at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. It seems he doesn&#8217;t care much for the Bush Administration&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Hagel, who considered running for the GOP presidential nomination as an antiwar candidate, told the foreign policy experts that he would give the Bush administration &#8220;the lowest grade of any I&#8217;ve known.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have to say this is one of the most arrogant, incompetent administrations I&#8217;ve ever seen or ever read about,&#8221; Hagel said, according to our colleague Robert Kaiser, who attended the speech. In case his audience didn&#8217;t get the point, Hagel also said: &#8220;They have failed the country.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We have been remiss in honoring the good Senator with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG&#8217;s<\/a> coveted and too-rarely bestowed <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?cat=194\">&#8220;Intellectually Honest Conservative Award&#8221;<\/a>. So before he leaves the Senate entirely, we&#8217;re happy to announce our awarding of this prize today to Hagel.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>NOTE: We&#8217;re well aware of Hagel&#8217;s troubling one-time ownership of voting machine company ES&#038;S, before becoming the first Republican Senator to be elected in Nebraska in a dog&#8217;s age&#8230; on ES&#038;S voting machines. It is <i>in spite<\/i> that ignominy that we offer this most coveted award.<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post reports on outgoing Republican Senator Chuck Hagel&#8217;s comments last night during an address at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. It seems he doesn&#8217;t care much for the Bush Administration&#8230; Hagel, who considered running for the GOP presidential nomination as an antiwar candidate, told the foreign policy experts that he would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}