Barker's Ramblings

Well, folks... what do you wanna know?

Hagel? Senator Barker would have voted "aye."

Why...??? Because unless a presidential nominee is clearly intellectually or ethically unqualified to serve at a president's pleasure advancing said president's constitutional agenda... Senate "consent" is the constitutional default position.

This said... I don't chide the Republicans who voted "nay" based upon Hagel's unwillingness to answer legitimate questions directed to him during his Senate hearing. My friends... if "nominee" Hagel doesn't believe it's his duty to fully and honestly answer reasonable Senate Committee questioning... then why would anyone expect "Secretary" Hagel to take a different tack once confirmed and ensconced in the cocoon of office?

Moving on....

The sequester...???  I support it. I support going further... much further. 

The President's specific actions and orders thus far in line with the sequester? A disgrace. Obama is acting as a school board does when their budget request is voted down; he's responding not by making the most reasonable and least harmful immediate cuts possible, but rather by doing just the opposite... threatening to begin cutting into the muscle of spending rather than the fat. Frankly... Obama should be impeached.

Frankly... if Obama, Biden, Boehner, Pelosi, Reid, and McConnell were to all just up and die... simultaneously... I'd be a happy camper indeed!

Oh... folks... breaking news from Politico via Drudge: "White House Was Not Involved In Decision To Release Detainees," is the headline. Is the headline true? I doubt it. 

Hey... perhaps it is true... but in either case "Big Sis" is the President's gal. If she went off the reservation than it's because Obama provided her the latitude. My guess...? The public backlash against the prisoner release has Obama and key Democrats quaking in their boots and they're willing to throw Napolitano under the bus if necessary in order to take the spotlight off Obama.

Anyway... on to newsbites. (Separate post!)