mccarthy period was like, the inquisition chamber, that. he didn t give him a chance to answer the question. it wasn t about him himself, it was about lindsey graham grandstanding for the five minutes he gets. congressional hearings have really gone downhill in the last 20, 25 years. you saw yesterday far more talk about what hagel might have said about israel a couple of years ago than about afghanistan. they wanted recanation. they wanted him to recant yes. excuse me. that s for you, joy. that s exactly right. an ecclesiastical proceeding. they feel like he turned on them, turn on their war, turned on their neocons and cry uncle. they see chuck hagel as the human roadblock and the some