General Hayden was confirmed in a totally lopsided vote as the new head of the CIA in the Senate today:

May 26 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Senate voted 78-15 today to confirm Michael Hayden as director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Hayden, who is deputy director for national intelligence, will take over an agency that has been plagued with low morale and the departure of senior managers.

Hayden, 61, received bipartisan support from lawmakers who said they’re confident he’ll provide unvarnished assessments of intelligence to President George W. Bush.

“His actions have demonstrated on a number of occasions the independence and strength of character” needed in a CIA director, said Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat who’s on the Intelligence Committee, which approved Hayden’s nomination by a 12-3 margin on May 23.

Well, that should incite the liberal base. They are going to see their Democrat Senators roll over and just let the man who implemented the NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program now take over the CIA. And the media is probably really upset as well, since the CIA has been source-central for all kinds of leaks and rogue actions.

As expected, the DU swamps are roiling and boiling. And now the KOS Kids join in (here and here as well).