Dear Diary: I dropped the drawbridge behind Chuck Hagel today, locking him out of the White House. Valjar, Eric Witholder and the rest of my loyal inner circle joined me in a glass of champagne to celebrate his departure. Hagel was a pesky person who seemed to think that being Secretary of Defense entitled him to be Secretary of Defense and not to defer to my superior judgement on strategy and battlefield tactics. Give me a break!
