Washington, its friday, february 1st, 2013. Lets get to the first read of the morning. Ill get to the jobs report in a minute, but i want to get to hagel. I want to start there. No doubt chuck hagel had a rough outing before the Armed Services committee, the question is whether hostility to hagels nomination breaks down so completely along partisan lines. That hes still able to survive. Theres clearly a lot of Republican Opposition to hagel, some of it may be personal. The white house for now is chalking up the eight painful hours to political theatrics and believe these republican senators were simply tougher on hagel than they were on john kerry or on john brennan because they view hagel as a turncoat, but, wow, did hagel just sit there and allow himself to get flogged. I have already stated that i regret the terminology. Ive already noted that i that i should have used another term. The bigger point is what i was saying, i think what i meant to say, should have said, its recognizabl
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