What he discovered even before announcing Mr. Hagel's appointment is that the former senator burned many bridges with his Republican colleagues, in part with his outspoken opposition to the Iraq war, despite voting in 2002 to authorize military action, and to the 2008 surge when President George W. Bush was still in office.
A sprawling mixture of fantasy, family saga, bildungsroman and political fable, The Tin Drum was attacked by critics, denied the Bremen literature prize by outraged senators, burned in Düsseldorf and became a global bestseller.
The Illinois senator was badly burned in the process.
*Most notably when the Mr. Burns-esque senator tells his aide he is nothing more than a condom filled with fire ants and to "shut your mouth, fat girl".
Senator Hillary Clinton has been burned twice lately by so-called bundlers — aspiring power brokers who harvest large amounts of smaller donations and bundle them into irresistibly giant packages.
"We're heading in the wrong direction," said Senator Jon Tester, Democrat of Montana, where 150 homes burned in last year's fires.
A 26-year-old woman was charged Tuesday with setting a small fire in January that burned down a 3,500-year-old 3,500-year-old 3,500-year-oldown as toweringtor.
The problem with the issue is that obviously immigration as a larger issue is a very touchy subject in the US right now, one that Senator McCain talked in our interview about him being personally burned by it.
Union officials, feeling burned, have begun organizing campaign activities in the state to bring the Senator back into the fold.
Two state senators have proposed a bill to stop the project, which has already burned through about $2 billion of its $3 billion budget.
