Obama Set to Nominate Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense

From CNN, "Hagel expected to be nominated as Defense Secretary." (Via Memeorandum.)

The folks at Commentary have been hitting hard against a Hagel nomination for weeks, and here's the search link.

And Ron Radosh posted a must-read entry a week or so back, "The Meaning of Pat Buchanan’s Surpising Endorsement of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense."

Plus, there have been a number of tweets like this in recent days:

Between John Kerry for Sec of State and Chuck Hagel for Sec of Defense, Israel might as well commit national suicide barenakedislam.com/2013/01/03/bet…
— barenakedislam (@barenakedislam) January 3, 2013

Yeah, it's not looking so good for O's new national security team.