The Political Party

[moonlightin]

AHA!!! That's the real reason they're going after Obama. They wanted to deflect from their own bad. Side note: it seems if you quote something from another article, this system automatically puts those same things into the quote here. Awesome!!

Dick Durbin: Benghazi Was Not A Coverup, Iraq WMD Intelligence Was

Senator Dick Durbin (D- Ill.) came to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's defense on Wednesday during a congressional hearing on the deadly Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Clinton appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations committee to testify about the State Department's handling of the Benghazi assault, which claimed the lives of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others. Over the course of the hearing, Republican committee members -- most notably Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) -- criticized Clinton repeatedly for what they characterized as a purposeful attempt by the administration to mislead the public about the causes of the attack.

Durbin, who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and was a member of the panel questioning Clinton, used his speaking time to defend the Obama administration's post-Benghazi investigation, by way of contrast with the Bush administration's political posturing in the months leading up to the United States' 2003 invasion of Iraq.

[I have] five words for [critics] to reflect on: Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. We were told by every level of government here there were Iraqi weapons of mass destruction that justified a war. The invasion of the United States. We are still searching for those weapons. They didn't exist. Thousands of Americans lost their lives. We could have a hearing on that if you like.

Durbin went on to characterize the information-gathering process carried out after the Benghazi attack as conducted in good faith.

[Investigators] did a thorough review here, found shortcomings in our protection of our people overseas and reported them honestly. You not only initiated that review, you accepted its findings in their totality -- no cover-up, an attempt to be totally honest, and to make sure a tragedy like this never occurs again.

[gspointer]

The stupid, it hurts

[thankyou]

Wouldn't it be interesting if the Libya hysteria created by Fox, Koch and friends evolved into an investigation of the info manipulation that took us to Iraq?

[Invisible Hand]

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gspointer wrote:
The stupid, it hurts

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Try midol, I hear it helps.  Also, wear a helmet.

[Mr.NiceGuy]

This is just another variation on the same old "it's Bush's fault ! " theme.

Durbin is a piece of shit.And I say that in the nicest way possible. He is my Senator, so don't argue with me.

[Just Me]

Yeah, the republicans are all over this like pit bulls.....

wonder why we never heard this much about the false intel on iraq, or the outing of CIA agents.

Republicans truly are the scum of the earth - no vision, no ideas, no plan so they are still playing "gotcha" politics.

How'd that work out for ya in the last election, dummies?

[Mr.NiceGuy]

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Just Me wrote:

Yeah, the republicans are all over this like pit bulls.....

wonder why we never heard this much about the false intel on iraq, or the outing of CIA agents.

Republicans truly are the scum of the earth - no vision, no ideas, no plan so they are still playing "gotcha" politics.

How'd that work out for ya in the last election, dummies?

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On the other hand, Dimmocraps are full of visions,ideas and plans that I want nothing to do with.

Most adults would be happy to simply see them come up with a budget.

[Just Me]

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Mr.NiceGuy wrote:

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Just Me wrote:

Yeah, the republicans are all over this like pit bulls.....

wonder why we never heard this much about the false intel on iraq, or the outing of CIA agents.

Republicans truly are the scum of the earth - no vision, no ideas, no plan so they are still playing "gotcha" politics.

How'd that work out for ya in the last election, dummies?

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On the other hand, Dimmocraps are full of visions,ideas and plans that I want nothing to do with.

Most adults would be happy to simply see them come up with a budget.

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Things like reforming the health care system, putting distance between the US and Israel, making sure we are not a nation of torturers, allowing women to have a perfectly legal procedure without being subject to an un-necessary invasive procedure, or attempting to make high powered weapons slightly less dificult for bad people and crazy people to get...?

Like those?

Get used to losing national elections, redumblicans - only a few R politicians have seen the writing on the wall, the rest are too stupid.

:lol:

[Mr.NiceGuy]

Things like taxing the shit out of anything that breathes in order to totally fuck up the best health care system in the world and ensure ongoing obscene profits for campaign contributing insurance companies?

Like stabbing our only middle east friends and allies in the back in order to suck up to 14th century cultures that hate us?

Like not allowing women to see an ultrasound of the living human being they are about to have dismembered and sucked out of their womb?

Like trying to capitalize on the actions of an isolated insane person in order to achieve a long standing desire for totalitarian disarmament?

Yeah, like those.

National elections tend to swing back and forth, so hopefully you can take disappointment as well as you can gloat.

[normh]

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Just Me wrote:

Yeah, the republicans are all over this like pit bulls.....

wonder why we never heard this much about the false intel on iraq, or the outing of CIA agents.

Republicans truly are the scum of the earth - no vision, no ideas, no plan so they are still playing "gotcha" politics.

How'd that work out for ya in the last election, dummies?

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Maybe the US Congress is simply attempting to get to the root of the Benghazi incident and it is the Democrats that have no vision, no ideas, and no plan but to misdirect and take as much as they can from those that can most afford it.  And thus by taking it away, they give even more back to those they took it from in the name of war games.

[thankyou]

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Mr.NiceGuy wrote:

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Just Me wrote:

Yeah, the republicans are all over this like pit bulls.....

wonder why we never heard this much about the false intel on iraq, or the outing of CIA agents.

Republicans truly are the scum of the earth - no vision, no ideas, no plan so they are still playing "gotcha" politics.

How'd that work out for ya in the last election, dummies?

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On the other hand, Dimmocraps are full of visions,ideas and plans that I want nothing to do with.

Most adults would be happy to simply see them come up with a budget.

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Interesting you should mention that.  Maybe they should create a budget and vote on it thirty some times like the House has with the AFA.  Then again, maybe they should use their time, that we pay for, to do work that will have a chance of goint somewhere.  Here's some of the reasons why the Senate hasn't come up with a budget, along with the fact that the 2010 agreement with the Republicansover the debt ceiling has made it irrelevant:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2012/02/parliamentary-procedure

Now, if the Republicans want to change the rules of the Senate and relinquish their stranglehold on the House, a Senate budget would be appropriate.

[Tom Hicks]

the GOP had a lot of hopes pinned on this investigation of the admin over benghazi. understandably, they are not pleased at how they have been unable to make any effective political hay with their feigned outrage.

nor is it much of a surprise how they would rather sweep the false iraqi WMD charges under the rug of history and just move on.

speaking of sweeping, obama just swept aside the GOP nominee a few months ago, an easy victory even in tough but slowly improving economic times, where the GOP are supposed to hold an advantage.

these are not happy days for the Grand Old Party, for that teabagger infusion didn't work out as planned either. in fact, the extremists seem to be driving away white voters of average income, and certainly so for the growing minority populations.

let's see if they are clever enough to evolve to be relevant again, or if their new national gadfly/national enquirer status is more to their liking.

[moonlightin]

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Mr.NiceGuy wrote:

Things like taxing the shit out of anything that breathes in order to totally fuck up the best health care system in the world and ensure ongoing obscene profits for campaign contributing insurance companies?

Like stabbing our only middle east friends and allies in the back in order to suck up to 14th century cultures that hate us?

Like not allowing women to see an ultrasound of the living human being they are about to have dismembered and sucked out of their womb?

Like trying to capitalize on the actions of an isolated insane person in order to achieve a long standing desire for totalitarian disarmament?

Yeah, like those.

National elections tend to swing back and forth, so hopefully you can take disappointment as well as you can gloat.

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Like not allowing women to see an ultrasound? What a load of crap! Get it right sparky. The repugs want to force women to see an ultrasound. They've taken that choice out of women's hands in a couple of states.  I personally think the women should see these ultrasounds. Every single pregnant women should see them. Especially the repug ones. Then they'll see that what they are taking out of the womb are a group of parasitic cells just forming into something that will be a human being.... later.

[savoldi]

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Tom Hicks wrote:

the GOP had a lot of hopes pinned on this investigation of the admin over benghazi. understandably, they are not pleased at how they have been unable to make any effective political hay with their feigned outrage.

nor is it much of a surprise how they would rather sweep the false iraqi WMD charges under the rug of history and just move on.

speaking of sweeping, obama just swept aside the GOP nominee a few months ago, an easy victory even in tough but slowly improving economic times, where the GOP are supposed to hold an advantage.

these are not happy days for the Grand Old Party, for that teabagger infusion didn't work out as planned either. in fact, the extremists seem to be driving away white voters of average income, and certainly so for the growing minority populations.

let's see if they are clever enough to evolve to be relevant again, or if their new national gadfly/national enquirer status is more to their liking.

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I don't think they expected Hillary to come out swinging like that. But hey. Let them flail away. It just makes them look even worse, and that's always a good thing.

[thankyou]

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savoldi wrote:

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Tom Hicks wrote:

the GOP had a lot of hopes pinned on this investigation of the admin over benghazi. understandably, they are not pleased at how they have been unable to make any effective political hay with their feigned outrage.

nor is it much of a surprise how they would rather sweep the false iraqi WMD charges under the rug of history and just move on.

speaking of sweeping, obama just swept aside the GOP nominee a few months ago, an easy victory even in tough but slowly improving economic times, where the GOP are supposed to hold an advantage.

these are not happy days for the Grand Old Party, for that teabagger infusion didn't work out as planned either. in fact, the extremists seem to be driving away white voters of average income, and certainly so for the growing minority populations.

let's see if they are clever enough to evolve to be relevant again, or if their new national gadfly/national enquirer status is more to their liking.

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I don't think they expected Hillary to come out swinging like that. But hey. Let them flail away. It just makes them look even worse, and that's always a good thing.

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Instead of staying home baking cookies, Hillary has become one tough cookie.

[Just Me]

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Mr.NiceGuy wrote:

Things like taxing the shit out of anything that breathes in order to totally fuck up the best health care system in the world and ensure ongoing obscene profits for campaign contributing insurance companies?

Like stabbing our only middle east friends and allies in the back in order to suck up to 14th century cultures that hate us?

Like not allowing women to see an ultrasound of the living human being they are about to have dismembered and sucked out of their womb?

Like trying to capitalize on the actions of an isolated insane person in order to achieve a long standing desire for totalitarian disarmament?

Yeah, like those.

National elections tend to swing back and forth, so hopefully you can take disappointment as well as you can gloat.

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you're a good little lemming - you repeat the right wing lies faithfully...

good boy, here's a cookie.

[Just Me]

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moonlightin wrote:

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Mr.NiceGuy wrote:

Things like taxing the shit out of anything that breathes in order to totally fuck up the best health care system in the world and ensure ongoing obscene profits for campaign contributing insurance companies?

Like stabbing our only middle east friends and allies in the back in order to suck up to 14th century cultures that hate us?

Like not allowing women to see an ultrasound of the living human being they are about to have dismembered and sucked out of their womb?

Like trying to capitalize on the actions of an isolated insane person in order to achieve a long standing desire for totalitarian disarmament?

Yeah, like those.

National elections tend to swing back and forth, so hopefully you can take disappointment as well as you can gloat.

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Like not allowing women to see an ultrasound? What a load of crap! Get it right sparky. The repugs want to force women to see an ultrasound. They've taken that choice out of women's hands in a couple of states.  I personally think the women should see these ultrasounds. Every single pregnant women should see them. Especially the repug ones. Then they'll see that what they are taking out of the womb are a group of parasitic cells just forming into something that will be a human being.... later.

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Save your breath, Moonie...these guys arent interested in truth, and refuse to accept it if it doesnt fit with their right wing mission.

[moonlightin]

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thankyou wrote:

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savoldi wrote:

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Tom Hicks wrote:

the GOP had a lot of hopes pinned on this investigation of the admin over benghazi. understandably, they are not pleased at how they have been unable to make any effective political hay with their feigned outrage.

nor is it much of a surprise how they would rather sweep the false iraqi WMD charges under the rug of history and just move on.

speaking of sweeping, obama just swept aside the GOP nominee a few months ago, an easy victory even in tough but slowly improving economic times, where the GOP are supposed to hold an advantage.

these are not happy days for the Grand Old Party, for that teabagger infusion didn't work out as planned either. in fact, the extremists seem to be driving away white voters of average income, and certainly so for the growing minority populations.

let's see if they are clever enough to evolve to be relevant again, or if their new national gadfly/national enquirer status is more to their liking.

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I don't think they expected Hillary to come out swinging like that. But hey. Let them flail away. It just makes them look even worse, and that's always a good thing.

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Instead of staying home baking cookies, Hillary has become one tough cookie.

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yep. I think she would have made a great president. Hopefully Obama taught her something too and hopefully she'll run in 2016.

[Caulk Rocket]

What happened in Libya was an extension of a policy created by Iran-Contra flunkies, who actually got us into Iraq.

Look up Dewey Clarridge and Benghazi. 

[Zig al-din]

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Caulk Rocket wrote:

What happened in Libya was an extension of a policy created by Iran-Contra flunkies, who actually got us into Iraq.

Look up Dewey Clarridge and Benghazi. 

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Interesting and not surprising. Certainly a lot of the weapons now being used by the mujahideen in Mali were freed up by the attack on Libya - and I've heard that the CIA has been training these same islamist mujahideen in north Africa.