{"id":24896,"date":"2007-03-09T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:50:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T05:50:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:50:23","slug":"get_ready_for_hagelmania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/03\/09\/get_ready_for_hagelmania\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Ready for Hagelmania!"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Are you ready, ladies and gentlemen, for <emphasize>Hagelmania<\/emphasize>? Do you know what Hagelmania is? Well, no. I\u2019m not joking. I\u2019m actually asking if people are ready for Hagelmania. Senator Chuck Hagel said yesterday that he\u2019s going to &#8216;announce his political future\u2019 on Monday. Everybody thinks that he\u2019s going to announce for the presidency, but there\u2019s been no word on whether he will say he\u2019s running for president or for reelection. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125112.Par.0002.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"165\" height=\"148\" class=\"alignright\"\/>&amp;ldquo;The Omaha World-Herald writes that &#8216;Hagel acts like he\u2019s already running\u2019: For a guy who hasn\u2019t announced a presidential bid, Sen. Chuck Hagel\u2019s schedule next week looks a lot like that of a candidate. He\u2019s slated to appear with nine declared presidential hopefuls &amp;mdash; including John McCain, Rudolph Giuliani, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama &amp;mdash; before a national firefighters\u2019 group. He\u2019s meeting with his political action committee\u2019s steering committee. He\u2019s scheduled to attend a Nebraska GOP fund-raiser in Washington. &#8230; With his solid conservative credentials, opposition to the Iraq war and disgust with President Bush (&#8216;Before this is over, you might see calls for his impeachment,\u2019 he just told Esquire), some &#8216;observers\u2019 believe he could surge to the head&amp;hellip;&amp;rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Who is saying this? Who in the world is saying this! This is from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.usatoday.com\/ondeadline\/2007\/03\/hagel_to_announ.html\">USA Today blog<\/a>. Who\u2019s telling the bloggers at USA Today that &#8216;some observers believed he could surge to the lead\u2019? You know, there\u2019s an old saying out there that every senator looks in the mirror and sees a president looking back. It just suggests how self-important they think they are as Senators. It\u2019s also why they\u2019re rarely elected president. They\u2019ve never <emphasize>governed. <\/emphasize>They\u2019re not executives. They\u2019re basically delegators. They have all this staff to go do all the reading and all the writing, and prepare the questions for the hearings and so forth. If something tough comes up, they just give it to the staff, &amp;ldquo;I\u2019m busy. I\u2019m in Vegas, you understand, sailor?&amp;rdquo; And they move on and then they show up at the right time, make it look like they\u2019re all prepared and so forth. The Senate doesn\u2019t prepare people for the rigors of executive governance such as governorships do. I don\u2019t know. I must maintain my composure here. (I seem to be trying to do it more and more.) Chuck Hagel is, perhaps, announcing for the presidency on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Are you ready, ladies and gentlemen, for Hagelmania? Do you know what Hagelmania is? Well, no. I\u2019m not joking. 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