Usually, syndicated columnist Bob Novak writes...

.... a pretty interesting and insightful column. Many political insider hints are aired that those of us outside the beltway might otherwise miss. However, it must have been a slow week....!!

Whither Hagel
by Robert Novak
04/19/2008 ET

Friends of Sen. Chuck Hagel, the Senate's sharpest critic of President Bush's Iraq policy, say there is no chance he will endorse a Democrat for president this year. That does not mean, however, that Hagel necessarily will back the Republican candidate, his friend John McCain. That could depend on whether McCain devises an Iraq exit strategy. Hagel and McCain, who occupy offices in the same second floor corridor of the Russell Senate Office Building, have been spotted conferring on two recent occasions. A footnote: Although the conservative Hagel is an unlikely running mate for either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, he conceivably could end up as secretary of defense for either Democrat.

If Ole' Pecoz were to try to rate my interest in what Hagel's thoughts are regarding McCain or anybody else..... it would be somewhere between watching paint dry or the shower head drip. As a matter of fact -- I got to thinking - and I can't think of anybody else on the planet that cares what this blue suited vacuum has to say about any given subject. Well, I exaggerate -- his Momma probably does, but then she probably nods off as well.

Like I said -- must have been a slow week in D.C. !!!