The Evening Brief: Texas Headlines for Jan. 31, 2013
Culled
• Sen. Ted Cruz grills Chuck Hagel at confirmation hearing (The Dallas Morning News): "Sen. Ted Cruz grilled Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel this afternoon. Cruz reprimanded the former Republican Nebraska senator for failing to submit to the Armed Services Committee speeches from the past five years. Cruz said Hagel submitted just four speeches, even though records showed he had been paid for 12 in the past year alone."
• Clinton could win Texas (Public Policy Polling): "PPP's newest Texas poll finds that, at least for now, Hillary Clinton could win the state in 2016. This follows on the ...
Comments (18)
Bambi Clark via Texas Tribune on Facebook
More grandstanding by our clownish Senator.
Gilly Harris via Texas Tribune on Facebook
What does he know? He's a freaking newbie. Grand stander.
Alexandra Richmond via Texas Tribune on Facebook
lip service.
Debbie Mason via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Bully he wants to talk bully. He needs to look in the mirror..I think the whole GOP/TP have become bullies. A President who went after a nation based on lies. Seems like bullying to me.
Kathy Kilmer Moak via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Texas is in for a lot of Cruz embarrassment over the next few years. (sigh)
Dave Sanders via Texas Tribune on Facebook
So the Secretary of State job description includes "liar" as a requirement? The fact is that we ARE the "world's bully." Remember Iraq? WMDs?
Arthur M. Thomas IV via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Its political crap from both sides. It is possible to be ready to defend ourselves and not go on nation building missions all over. The Rs and Ds are ridiculous extremes that end up with the same practical outcome... big and more expansive military :/
This is all a meaningless political show.
Joe Rodgers via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Cruz is just the newest embarrassment for Texas....is there a way to do a recall for such isiots?
Joe Rodgers via Texas Tribune on Facebook
idiots
Ed Caffrey via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Typical of his kind, unwilling to shut up and learn because he obviously already knows evertything about anything important, at least in his own feeble mind...
Patsy Painter Hull via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Sarah Palin on testosterone
Andrew Goldberg via Texas Tribune on Facebook
and if it's true?
Debbe Busby via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Why oh why can't he just shut the .... up?
Toni Mikel via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Hey ! I kind of like Hagel and I never like Republicans. He has three purple stars, was a Senator, always served on foreigh relation or was it Defense Senate committee? and Brought USO from bankruptcy . He burst McCain and Twinkle toe Lindsay Graham's warmonger bubble by doubting their surge and Petraus back win and won't forgive him. They all used to be buddies. I am soooo relieved we did NOT McCain because I guarantee we'd be in another two wars with Iran/Syria and never would've left Iraq because hell NEVER admit he was wrong! No "mass weapons "
Stanley Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Tio Ted--sit down, shut up!
Marcus Denton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Total a-hole in that hearing
Scott Nicol via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Ted is an idiot, and Cornyn has decided to emulate him to avoid being primaried ala Dewhurst. Cruz and Cornyn were two of only 3 senators to vote against Kerry's nomination, and both said of the immigration proposals that they are all for more border enforcement, but not so much the (much later) pathway to citizenship, ignoring the land condemnations and environmental destruction that accompanied the 2006 border enforcement bill and that would likely accompany this one as well.
R J
I agree Hagel is and idiot and Obama and his loser policies are bringing America down. Unemployment took another jump this month and another stock market bubble is about to burst. Obama is the worst President in history and the liberals know it. That's why you all are so mad all the time.