Whose Side Are You On?
Byron York reports that a Kerry adherent and volunteer has been hired onto the Senate Intelligence Committee staff of the ever-pious Chuck Hagel, nominal Republican of Nebraska.
Specifically,
A key Republican committee staffer in the politically charged prewar intelligence investigation is a veteran of the 2004 Kerry presidential campaign. Eric Rosenbach, hired by Sen. Hagel to work on prewar intelligence issues, came to the Senate after completing studies at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government under Rand Beers, a top foreign-policy adviser for Kerry. In Fall 2004, Rosenbach took three weeks to volunteer for the Kerry campaign in York County, Pennsylvania.
Hagel says he knew that Rosenbach worked with Beers (a top Kerry advisor), but not that he worked in the campaign. Please. You don't always need a weathervane to know which way the wind is blowing.
Certainly, it was disingenuous at best for the young man not to have revealed his Kerry affiliation.
But as for Hagel, he's either dishonorable or an idiot. Dishonorable if -- elected as a Republican -- he surreptitiously seeks out staff that are going to formulate and push policies that don't comport with what his constituents believed they were getting when they voted for him. An idiot if he didn't realize that an affiliation with Rand Beers wasn't a pretty reliable signifier that Rosenbach isn't with the Republicans when it comes to national security issues.
Specifically,
A key Republican committee staffer in the politically charged prewar intelligence investigation is a veteran of the 2004 Kerry presidential campaign. Eric Rosenbach, hired by Sen. Hagel to work on prewar intelligence issues, came to the Senate after completing studies at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government under Rand Beers, a top foreign-policy adviser for Kerry. In Fall 2004, Rosenbach took three weeks to volunteer for the Kerry campaign in York County, Pennsylvania.
Hagel says he knew that Rosenbach worked with Beers (a top Kerry advisor), but not that he worked in the campaign. Please. You don't always need a weathervane to know which way the wind is blowing.
Certainly, it was disingenuous at best for the young man not to have revealed his Kerry affiliation.
But as for Hagel, he's either dishonorable or an idiot. Dishonorable if -- elected as a Republican -- he surreptitiously seeks out staff that are going to formulate and push policies that don't comport with what his constituents believed they were getting when they voted for him. An idiot if he didn't realize that an affiliation with Rand Beers wasn't a pretty reliable signifier that Rosenbach isn't with the Republicans when it comes to national security issues.
posted by LadybugUSA at 9:19 AM
2 Comments:
"Whose side are you on?" Of course, the title says it all, doesn't it?
'Are they friend or foe? Gotta know, gotta know now. Must be on guard at all times. Better keep lookin' out for traitors. Must circle wagons around idiot president.'
Rosenbach did nothing disingenuous. Disclaiming knowledge of his Kerry affiliation is the Hagel team's way of spinning and kowtowing to the NR.
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