The Real Problem with Chuck Hagel

Is not Hagel, it’s Just Business as Usual for a Broken GOP:

That’s why I think that the Hagel affair really isn’t about Chuck Hagel.

This is really a fight about Barack Obama. It is being driven by three somewhat overlapping constituencies — a pro-Israel community that doesn’t trust the president, a Republican party and a neoconservative elite struggling unsuccessfully to define its own foreign policy identity, and finally, a party in opposition that is determined to remind Obama that, reelected or not, he doesn’t have a free hand.

I think the Neocon wing is taking great offense with appointing a Republican from Old School / Realist Wing of the GOP. For these cats, this is about the future of foreign policy and the repurposing of the Department of Defense. 

The Neocons fought long and hard to change the mission of the Department from Defense to Offense. They want to keep the Department of War and don't want to go back to a Department of Defense.  If it means savaging a fellow Republican, they'll do it.