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Rep. Pelosi knocks Republicans' 'obsession' with Benghazi attack
The Hill ^

Posted on 05/11/2013 9:39:38 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Rep. Pelosi knocks Republicans' 'obsession' with Benghazi attack By Sam Baker - 05/11/13 11:43 AM ET

Congressional Republicans are using their Benghazi investigation as political "subterfuge" to distract from other issues, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Saturday.

Pelosi said it's important to find out what happened in the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. But the right is taking it too far, she said in an interview with MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry.

"The obsession that some of my Republican colleagues have in the House doesn't look like it's on the path to really finding a solution, but just to keeping an issue alive," she said.

House Republicans held a day-long hearing this week on the Benghazi attacks, focusing on security at the consulate as well as the way the administration described the attack.

"We certainly have to give the full attention Benghazi deserves, but we cannot let it soak up all of the congressional attention," Pelosi said. "What would be the purpose of that?"

The issue has also dominated conservative media.

"We want to find out what did happen, but … then it becomes an issue that is subterfuge: 'Let's talk about Benghazi forever, so we don't have to talk about what the American people want us to talk about,'" Pelosi said. "They want us to talk about jobs, they want us to talk about economic security, economic growth."

Republicans have accused the administration of downplaying the attack, citing initial talking points that described it as a protest over an anti-Islamic YouTube video rather than a coordinated terrorist attack.

Some Republicans have also questioned whether the administration refused requests for additional security in Benghazi.

"Much of what is being said out there by some of my colleagues in Congress is simply not true … it simply isn't true," Pelosi said. "So we have to make sure the public record is clear."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: benghazi; california; libya; nancypelosi; pelosi; waronterror
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Oh well stupid us...........
1 posted on 05/11/2013 9:39:38 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Pelosi is obsessed with reminding US that she has the mental capacity of a garden snail.


2 posted on 05/11/2013 9:41:55 AM PDT by Howie66 (Molon Labe, Traitors!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Pelosi. Pelosi?

Is that cadaver still alive?


3 posted on 05/11/2013 9:42:20 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: Sub-Driver

Must be close to the truth, I hear rats squealing...


4 posted on 05/11/2013 9:42:26 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: Sub-Driver

This from the California ditz who is currently “obsessed” with ObamaCare, “gay marriage” and gun control. What a maroon.


5 posted on 05/11/2013 9:42:40 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is the root cause of violent crime in Mexico. - Barack Hussein Obama Jr.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Translation: "It's not a scandal unless we say so."

6 posted on 05/11/2013 9:43:52 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: Sub-Driver

Pelosi is the person responsible for the FRAUD of Obama.
She filed THE altered Certificate to make him pRes_ _ential
candidate.

Pelosi is the key to the fraud.


7 posted on 05/11/2013 9:44:19 AM PDT by Diogenesis (De Oppresso Liber)
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To: Howie66

How could you, in all decency to garden snails, insult them by comparing Pelosi to them? Garden snails are at least one standard deviation smarter than Pelosi is. LOL


8 posted on 05/11/2013 9:44:54 AM PDT by txnativegop (Fed up with zealots)
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To: Sub-Driver

Nice spin, Bela, but it’s not gonna fly. You and your admin buddies are up to your armpits in Benghazi quicksand.


9 posted on 05/11/2013 9:45:24 AM PDT by JPG (Stay strong.)
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" "They want us to talk about jobs, they want us to talk about economic security, economic growth." - Pelosi

Yet, pushing her failed gun control last month had how much to do with jobs?!

Pelosi isn't smart enough to be a good liar. She lies, but she isn't good at it.

10 posted on 05/11/2013 9:46:02 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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Pelosi lacks a "high capacity" brain so she doesn't think anyone should have one.

Nancy needs to give America a break. She should resign and go home to spend more time with her money.

11 posted on 05/11/2013 9:46:11 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is the root cause of violent crime in Mexico. - Barack Hussein Obama Jr.)
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Apparently even Pelosi’s handlers can’t wake her out of her stupor.


12 posted on 05/11/2013 9:46:21 AM PDT by DAC21
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[[Rep. Pelosi knocks Republicans’ ‘obsession’ with Benghazi attack ]]

And of course no republican said “Psssst- Nancyu- have you forgotten abotu your side’s asinine obsession with Sarah PaLIN’s Wardrobe durign hte electorial process? or your sides obssession with Senator Stevens of Alaska, or Marc Sanford, or... on and on it goes-? Don ‘t preach to us abotu obssession!”


13 posted on 05/11/2013 9:47:53 AM PDT by CottShop (Scientific belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge)
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Silly Republicans . . . obsessed over national security, competent officials, transparent government, honest leaders, human life . . . you know, the little stuff . . . that’s us!


14 posted on 05/11/2013 9:48:17 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
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This in its entirety might be the end of the Democratic Party as it is now. Saturated with communists. Not socialists or Marxists.
15 posted on 05/11/2013 9:48:35 AM PDT by Logical me
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Attention dimwit Pelosi: One - Democrats were all over Nixon for lying but nobody died as did four brave and abandonded Americans in Benghazi, through incompetence and lying by Democrats; Two - if Bush was president and the same scenario occurred she’s be all over him relentlessly like a rabid pit bull.


16 posted on 05/11/2013 9:48:56 AM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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"The obsession that some of my Republican colleagues have in the House doesn't look like it's on the path to really finding a solution ...
Solution? There's four dead Americans ... there's no solution to that.
We want answers, accountability and arrests.
17 posted on 05/11/2013 9:48:57 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Sub-Driver
The other hideous cackling witch weighs in, with her version of

"WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?!?!?"

18 posted on 05/11/2013 9:49:15 AM PDT by Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears (Quit whining about the media not doing their job! GET THE WORD OUT!)
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To: Sub-Driver

that all you got Pelosi?

your guy can’t be removed, he can only be impeached.


19 posted on 05/11/2013 9:52:44 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Hey Nanc, try this on;
We have to pass the Articles of Impeachment to find out what’s in them.


20 posted on 05/11/2013 9:53:30 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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