Just announced on MSNBC, Hagel confirmed...

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20. I certainly hope that Hagel has a memory that is long, and a heart that is vengeful.

President Obama can't stoop to the level of these rightwingnuts, because he has to maintain the decorum and the aura of the office of the Presidency. But the Sec Def can be as bad-ass as he wants to be and I certainly hope he seeks his revenge. If I were Hagel, I would not take a scalpel to the Defense budget but a hatchet and I would start in the Red States. I would certainly like to see any base closures jobcuts originate and end in those states where those senators all took their symbolic vote against him. To do otherwise, does not make him the bigger man, it would make him a fool. After all, these people were out to destroy him, for sport, not in the name of truth, or otherwise. They had a vendetta against this President, and a score to settle for Hagel's criticism of the Bush Administration but in the final analysis, they are just plain evil. I hope Hagel becomes the Godfather of the Defense Dept and those senators who screwed over him will soon have to kiss his ring.