His cabinet. But that happened today to president barack obama. Republicans in the senate decided to do something unprecedented to him. And to thereby set an entirely new precedent for how the presidency itself is treated in our country. When they said today that even though they could not muster a majority of votes on their side, they would maneuver anyway as a minority to block president barack obama from appointing his chosen secretary of defense. This has never happened before. To anyone ever. I mean, we have had cabinet nominees not make it through the Senate Confirmation process before. People who could not win over a majority of the senate so they did not get confirmed. Weve had that happen. Weve had people pull their name from contention when it became clear they could not win confirmation in the senate. But president obamas nominee for defense secretary chuck hagel, he does have majority support in the senate. What happened today is that a minority of that body, the republican
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