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Posted on 05/02/2014 11:40:52 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
May 02, 2014, 02:22 pm Reid: Republicans using Benghazi to start ‘political food fight’
By Ramsey Cox
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Republicans are using the Benghazi attack to “gin up yet another political food fight” ahead of the November election.
“For Republicans to waste the American people’s time and money staging a partisan political circus instead of focusing on the middle class is simply a bad decision,” Reid said on Friday. “While Republicans try to gin up yet another political food fight, Senate Democrats will remain focused on fostering economic growth for all hard-working Americans.”
Reid’s comments came after Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) announced he would appoint a select House committee to expand the Republican investigation into the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012.
Republicans have pounced on recently released emails from White House adviser Ben Rhodes. In those emails, sent in advance of TV appearances by then-United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice, Rhodes said officials should make it a goal to show that the protests were based on an Internet video.
Republicans have charged that the White House initially linked the attack to a protest because it wanted to play down the idea it was a terrorist attack before the presidential election. The administration eventually acknowledged the attack was an act of terrorism.
Republicans have said the new emails prove the White House attempted to mislead the public for political gains.
Reid said instead of focusing on issues the public cares about, such as raising the minimum wage, Republicans are fixated on “debunked right-wing conspiracy theories.”
“There have already been multiple investigations into this issue and an independent Accountability Review Board is mandated under current law,” Reid said. “Republicans care more about defending billionaires like the Koch brothers and trying to rekindle debunked right-wing conspiracy theories than raising the minimum wage or ensuring women receive equal pay for equal work.”
Senate Republicans have blocked Democrats’ attempts to vote on bills that would raise the minimum wage and ensure women get equal pay for equal work. Income inequality is the center of Democrats campaign efforts for the November election.
Coming from Dingy Harry, the crooked gasbag that insults everyone, makes false accusations, lies constantly, and now claims everyone else is guilty of his actions.
They didn't want to look bad so they lied to us all.
That's the outrage.
If this is a food fight, what was valerie plame?
No. More like introducing Liberals (yet again) to the concept of ‘accountability’.
Thankless task!
"I go to bed and wake up thinking of the Koch brothers."
I always find it hilarious when politicians, let alone democrat politicians, express concern about ‘wasting taxpayers money’.
The blood of the four dead is on Reid’s corrupt fingers.
Good point!
Why? The lights are beginning to shine on Reid, Hillary, Pelosi and the Obama administration. The cockroaches are diving for cover. The mantra now is that Benghazi “was two years ago, dude” and “what difference doe it make now”?
Id love to throw food at Dingy Harry and fecal matter too but that’s a whole other subject altogether
One more time dingy- STFU!!!
And go die so your trip to H&!! came be completed ASAP
That is one outrage among three. Two dead federal agents and hundreds of dead Mexicans.
The other outrage, imho is worst, transferring weapons to a sworn enemy (al-Queda) of the U.S..
Some dare call that treason (just like Fast & Furious).
5.56mm
START the fight?
What is the matter with you, Harry? Is it really that you are deliberately obfuscating, or are you already senile?
One question, that is being avoided - Where was the Current Occupant now squatting in the White Hut, all during the night of September 11, 2012, and why wasn’t he on top of this every minute? Nobody knew, and nobody seemed to be trying to find him, to give a definitive answer, to either go ahead, or stand down.
There was nobody in charge at a very, very critical time. Not the Current Occupant, not Joe Biden, not Herself, Madame Benghazi, the Cold & Joyless, not even Valerie Jarrett, would speak up and say, do this, or don’t do this. Had the Chief Executive been assassinated or something? There was not this much confusion when Kennedy was shot in 1963.
This total nincompoop, Harry Reid, would screw up a one-car funeral. And the Current Occupant is even LESS competent, if that is worldly possible.
Damn, this Reid character is one despicable reprobate.
Finally a truly viable charge of murder stalks this clinton freak.
I seriously doubt it will happen, but if the Senate should devolve to conservative hands, this whole islamocommunist administration needs to come crashing down.
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