It's One Or The Other

Senator Chuck Hagel(R-Neb) will announce Monday that he is quitting the U.S. Senate after only two terms and will not run for president next year.

According to close sources he will not run for re-election and he does not intend to be a candidate for any office in 2008.

Why would a Senator quit after only two terms? At two terms, he was just getting into the seniority groove to get really powerful committee chairs, getting to really know the lobbyists and their copious donations, the whole beltline bit.

Anybody with half a brain understands that the Republicans have put a loaded gun to their own heads by allowing Bush and his gang of arrogant thugs to run rampant for two presidential terms. The Republican party is a sinking ship, scuttled by it's own crew. So two-time Senator Chuck Hagel(R-Neb) can be one of only two things:

-1) A "crew" member who has decided to no longer serve on board a ship commanded by a modern Captain Ahab, or

-2) Just another rat - one of many - abandoning a sinking ship.

I wonder which one he is, but I really don't give a damn. One Washington bought-and-sold insider gone.... ninety-nine to go.

Addendum

A third possibility:

Maybe the bastards that control the senate decided he wasn't a team player(rabidly pro-Israel) and quietly told him his effectiveness as a Senator for Nebraska and his role as a major player in the Republican party is history.