Posted on 02/17/2013 2:48:32 PM PST by haffast
If nothing else, the congressional break for the week of Presidents’ Day is a cooling-off period for the fight over former Sen. Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be secretary of defense.
Questions about President Obama’s handling of the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, which killed four Americans, including the US ambassador – an issue, by the way, which Mr. Hagel had nothing to do with – are being answered to the apparent satisfaction of Republicans … at least to the point where they’re willing to end their de facto filibuster of Hagel’s nomination.
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Sen. Graham, along with Sen. John McCain, led the opposition to Hagel in the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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“The president isn’t done with Benghazi,” McDonough said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday. “He’s demanded of us, since that night, to find out exactly what happened, and to make every reform needed to ensure it does not happen again.”
The politics of the Hagel nomination are obvious to those aware of election cycles – particularly regarding Sen. Graham, who faces reelection next year and the likelihood of a challenge from his right (as did Sen. McCain in 2010).
“Graham's antics have as much to do with events in Columbia, S.C., as with events in Washington,” writes Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank. “His sentiments are no doubt genuine, but the ferocity with which he has been attacking the Obama administration – taking a high-profile role on Benghazi, Susan Rice, Hagel and gun control – are helping him to repel a tea party primary challenge at home.”
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demanded my ass. The President did not make a single phone call on Benghazi that night. He was more interested in Las Vegas campaign event than our consulate. He did nothing and then lied about it. scum bag.
I’m sick of all this bullshit.
That’s good. Obama has tasked his staff to find out what he was doing the night of the Benghazi attacks and why he did absolutely nothing for seven and a half hours.
Duh.
It is AMAZING to me how many here still do not understand what is happening to us.
The Republicans are NOT the home team. They are the ENEMY.
The only difference between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party is that we still are able to destroy the Republican Party before it finishes its transformation into the "legal opposition" to the designated Leading Party.
The Republicans, if they are not destroyed, will become like the "official" other parties in the GDR or the USSR - their "leaders" will be state employees and their followers will be nonexistent.
With an adjacent headline...
Woodward: Dems Ask WH To Withdraw Hagel Nomination
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2989411/posts
In other words, Republicans once again snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
+1 to Alex Jones tinfoil.
Graham, McCain and the other useful idiots are under the DELUSION the senate is a country club.
The country club is dead and replaced by a brick wall and a blindfold.
“They only occupy space and office. Space and office which could be put to better use by candidates like Rubio and Rand Paul. “
Don’t be misled. Rubio is very much part of Jeb Bush’s machine and Karl Rove backs him. The Tea Party is going to be sadly disappointed if he is being perceived as an outsider because he is far from that.
In other words, the President wants to know "Where was I and what did I do, and why didn't I take any action?"
And we're supposed to take the request seriously...
And, this is a surprise to whom?
The sellout of America by the GOPe continues unchecked.
94 Senators vopted for a traitor, why wouldn’t they vote for Hagel
We don’t have two parties any more The republicans are as bad as the democrats.
Hagel will gladly carry out Obama’s directions to treat the Congress with contempt and defiance. If the Senate lacks the spine to do what they should do, Obama will see to it that the voting public holds republicans in contempt for many years.
Hagel will gladly carry out Obama’s directions to treat the Congress with contempt and defiance. If the Senate lacks the spine to do what they should do, Obama will see to it that the voting public holds republicans in contempt for many years.
Why? They’re all actors. Kind of reminds me of Godfather after the Nevada senator is found in bed with a dead prostitute. Do you think they’ve all been found next to dead prostitutes in whorehouses? Seems that way.
Why? They’re all actors. Kind of reminds me of Godfather after the Nevada senator is found in bed with a dead prostitute. Do you think they’ve all been found next to dead prostitutes in whorehouses? Seems that way.
There really is only an inch between the McCain wing of the Republican party and the Democrats, and a wide gully between them and the base of the party. McCain makes loud noises as if he were about to take on the Democrats, and then you turn around and he has his arm around their shoulders. Which is why he is still in the limelight four years after his pathetic campaign for president. A man less full of himself would have retired from the Senate, but he love his role, loves the posturing, and everyone knows he means nothing by it.
I am thoroughly disgusted! Lot of good it does me. :(
Republicans are no better than democrats. They could care less if a cabinet level pick HAS NO QUALIFICATIONS to lead that particular job. They could care less if Pvt. Goober is as dumb as rocks. It’s all a game to politicians. They are all friends, they all get drunk together. They all snort coke together. None of them do anything. Their staff does all the work. The cat’s finally out of the bag with Pvt Goober. This SOB couldn’t lead a cub scout troup on a half mile hike without getting lost. Now this incompetent brain-fried stooge will be in charge of the world’s biggest government agency. Living proof that Joe the Bartender could be made Sec of Defense and no one would give a shyt. Politics are a joke. When the worthless GOP never questioned the treasonous traitor John Kerry on calling all Vietnam veterans war criminals, you knew damn well they would confirm the incompetent Bagel boy.
So far as Benghazi is concerned, I think the main problem was that no help was within a reasonable travel time. Now, if sequester goes through, this will probably get even worse.
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