From The Huffington Post
By Cenk Uygur

I don’t get it. The man speaks one way and votes another. Who the hell is he? I really don’t get it.

If I was voting for the Chuck Hagel I hear, I would vote for him for president. If I was voting for the Chuck Hagel I see on the record, he’d be the very last person in Congress I would ever vote for.
Who is this man?

If you read this interview with Hagel in GQ or hear him excoriating the administration and his Republican colleagues on the Senate floor, you think he is a godsend. A Republican who thinks clearly and acts boldly. Something we haven’t seen in six years.

But then you look at his voting record, and it is abysmal. Did you know that in 2006 there was not one senator in the country who voted with the Bush administration more than Chuck Hagel? That’s not in 2003, where he might argue - and he does argue - he was deceived. That was a month ago!

I wrote back in 2005 that Chuck Hagel should replace Don Rumsfeld as the Secretary of Defense. I had faith in Senator Hagel. He knew what he was talking about. But it turned out he certainly didn’t vote that way. And since I wrote that he has not had one encouraging vote, until the committee vote on escalation last week.

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