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" Here&amp;#039;s what Chuck Hagel should do, and I am not kidding about this. He should get up from his seat in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee, open his shirt, tear out the shrapnel he&amp;#039;s still carrying around from Vietnam, and throw the bloody fragments in the faces of both Jim Inhofe and Ted Cruz. This is your new &amp;quot;rebranded&amp;quot; Republican party, Senator Cruz, who makes the heart of Chris Cillizza go pitty-pat? &amp;quot;We do not know, for example, if he received compensation for giving paid speeches at extreme or radical groups. In my view, given the two letters he received, it is a fair inference to assume that he and those handling his nomination assembled that information, assembled his compensation, and the only reasonable inference, I think, is when they assembled it, there was something in there that they did not want to make public. It may be that he spoke at radical or extreme groups or anti-israel groups and accepted financial compensation. We don&amp;#039;t know.&amp;quot; I have in my hand a list... Later, after Bill Nelson of Florida called out Cruz for resurrecting Tailgunnner Joe, Inhofe chimed in and (as usual) you could hear the stupid echoing over Chesapeake Bay. &amp;quot;I want to make one observation,&amp;quot; Inhofe interjected. &amp;quot;I think I wrote down the words Senator [Bill] Nelson was criticizing our senator there for implying that Chuck Hagel was cozy with terrorist type countries referring to Iran. I&amp;#039;d say he&amp;#039;s endorsed by them. You can&amp;#039;t get any cozier than that.&amp;quot; I give up. I can&amp;#039;t imagine why the president hasn&amp;#039;t &amp;quot;reached across the aisle&amp;quot; more. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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