Obama picked Hagel to be torpedoed

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17. President Obama doesn't strike me as the type to play those kind of games

I find him to be straight-forward, pragmatic and still too idealistic, sometimes. For him to be doing what you're suggesting, would be beneath him.

What I think he didn't count on was Reid bailing (woosing out) on the filibuster. That's who I hold responsible for the usual, expected reaction from neo-cons. Someone needs to tell the guy that rattlesnakes bite, because that's what they do.................... DUH! To expect the right to do differently, is insanity.