Posted on 05/09/2014 5:58:03 PM PDT by mandaladon
House Democratic leaders have been unstinting in their criticism of the select committee established this week to investigate the aftermath of the 2012 attack on an American compound in Benghazi, Libya. Now they are facing a touch choice about whether to join it, cautiously weighing which strategy would be riskier politically and whether their instinct to boycott the select committee might just give it more power in the end.
Democratic leaders have called the new committee a political ploy, a stunt, a sham, a waste of taxpayer dollars and, in the words of White House spokesman Jay Carney, a blatantly political and partisan effort. This week, two arms of the party, the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, launched a coordinated messaging blitz to undermine the committee and cast Republicans as political opportunists who have established the select committee only because of their interest in raising money and exciting the GOP base before the 2014 midterm elections.
Should Democrats now take part in this thing they view as a nonserious exercise in pandering to the right? House Democrats met behind closed doors Friday morning to discuss their options, but emerged with no clear answer on how to proceed.
In the case of reopening an investigation into the events of Sept. 11, 2012, in Libya, Democrats are stuck in a damned-if-they-do, damned-if-they-dont scenario. Thats left the caucus torn on what to do.
Theres a vocal chorus of Democrats urging Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to boycott the committee altogether. Appointing members to the committee would lend credibility to the investigation, they fear, and it would force Democrats to risk being pawns in a Republican political game.
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There was an episode on Mythbusters where they actually did polish a turd.
>> That is why we cant trust the mainstream press.
The greatest threat to the Country.
Dr K: "All the committee has to do is to discover new facts, as we discovered a week and half ago with the Rhodes memo, and that you cannot ignore."
He hopes they boycott the committee, as that will allow the GOP to make the case in a more orderly fashion.
Poor demos just pawns in republican game of life.
Boo hoo hoo.
Democrats, if they aren’t standing on your throat,
they’re a victim...
That b@$t@rd will be up in front of the cameras blaming the NRA and the easy availability of guns for the Benghazi attack.
Here we have proof-positive that Dummycrats should never ever be given political power. They use it like tin pot dictators in Third World satraps.
Lock-stepping Dummycrats spit on those hallowed vestiges of a government they would destroy---they want total power. The power-mad Clintons' grasp for power over and over again is terrifying.
If the Dummycrats had any sense whatsoever they would know that since the 11th century, the system of "Checks and Balances" was initiated in the Great Council Halls of Venice to keep the all-powerful Doges in check.
We need checks and balances now more then ever----to keep the power-crazed Clintons and lock-stepping Dummycrats from trampling us under their feet.
Barack Hussein Obama has spent 5 years ignoring both the law of the land and constitutionally imposed limits on the power of the presidency. So far, republicans in both the House and Senate have done precious little to take this corrupt, Marxist plant to task on his countless abuses of executive authority.
But on Monday, during a segment with FOX News political analyst Jeanine Pirro, Congressman Trey Gowdy of South Carolina promised viewers that the House will use the power of the purse to end Obamas obsession with rule rather than governance.
When Pirro asked the congressman if House republicans were actually going to DO it, Gowdy energetically responded Blank Yeah, (just in case his mother was watching.) more at coachisright.com ...
"As I stand here before you today to introduce our Commander
in Chief, please permit me to paraphrase the late, great HL Mencken."
"The office of president represents the inner soul of the people.
On Nov 2008, the plain folks of this land reached their heart's
desire. At long last they voted to adorn the White House with a
downright moron.'
The democrats are not going to boycott this. They will do what they always do: act like monkeys throwing around turds in order to de-legitimize it.
Theres a vocal chorus of Democrats urging Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to boycott Trey Gowdy’s Benghazi committee. .... First of all it wouldn’t be a boycott. Boycott needed workers to bring in his crops, so he could make a profit off Irish who were not going to be fairly recompensed. What they are arguing for here is “Don’t attend so we can scream UNFAIRNESS! UNFAIRNESS!” Pelosi and many other Committees weighed the committees against Republicans in prior years. Trey needs to invite them to appoint four Dems to attend and when they say “No.” , shrug and continue with the hearings. If it is found later to be extrajudicial, the FACTS will be out there, with NO Dummycrat shenanigans.
What a site that would be and you are correct, would be a major game changer and the biggest DANGER the DemocRATS have by appointing their five is one seeking a chance to lead.
> Democratic leaders have called the new committee a political ploy, a stunt, a sham, a waste of taxpayer dollars and,in the words of White House spokesman Jay Carney,a blatantly political and partisan effort.<
> cautiously weighing which strategy would be riskier politically<
So Mr. Moody wrote this crap article and can’t even see the blatant hypocrisy in his own words? Explain to me again who is making it political? This idiot just told you in his own damn article!!
Huh, I must have missed this. WHEN did the press "investigate" the "events" of Sept. 11, 2012?
Yeah, gotta love the MSM.
It was an "event". Kind of like a "happening" or "be-in".
Yahoo news is the wannabe electronic NY Times so be wary of what you read there. Bad journalism is like your wife slipping you a little ant poison every day. Not enough to kill you just enough to make you unaware that what you are consuming is killing you slowly but surely. So it is with the liberal media.
Rep Gowdy should just nip this in the bud and choose 5 more TEApublican firebrands to be on the committee, especially if they are veterans.
Now that would be a truly "select committee".
Ska-rew the RATs.
Carney has already completely worn out any vestige of integrity he might have ever tenuously been thought to have and is nothing more than a thoughtless conduit for the administration's mendacious bilge.
HF
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