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Pelosi demands equal Dem/Repub Split for Select Committee
Hot Air ^ | May 6th, 2014 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 05/06/2014 1:28:35 PM PDT by entropy12

Good luck with that. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi faces pressure from all sides in regard to the newly-launched select committee to investigate Benghazi. Participating would legitimize the results, while boycotting it might open up Democrats to attacks on their concern for diplomatic personnel abroad, four of whom were killed in the attack on September 11, 2012, and leave administration officials no way to set the narrative through the friendly questioning of Democrats on the panel during public hearings. Pelosi hedged in the direction of participation by demanding an equal number of seats on the committee:

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: demtrialballoon; gowdy; gowdybsc; johnboehner; ohio; pelosi; pelosiisgoingtohell; selectcommittee; southcarolina; trey; treygowdy; trialballoon
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To: AppyPappy
She’s looking for a reason to walk out.

Don't think so.

If they boycott the GOP will have free reign to call whomever they want and ask whatever they want 100% of the time.

Pelosi won't want that which is why she proposed what she believes to be the lesser evil...equal representation.

41 posted on 05/06/2014 2:52:03 PM PDT by what's up (su)
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To: ErnBatavia
Let's watch and see how heavily the 'rats target Gowdy in November as retaliation.

Me thinks Boehner is setting this up, partially to allay those of us that want heads to roll over Benghazi, and partly to set up Trey. If it fails, Trey goes down, Boehner goes on. If it's successful, Trey is where he is right now, Boehner goes on. This is the buffer to protect Boehner. Win/win Boehner.

42 posted on 05/06/2014 3:01:26 PM PDT by Big Giant Head
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To: entropy12

no.


43 posted on 05/06/2014 3:16:32 PM PDT by Hattie
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To: maine-iac7

“her shoes are pinching - I don’t think they’ve got anything on Gowdy - nothing to blackmail with. And he’s probably the beet prosecutor we’ve seen in a long time - he doesn’t suffer fools gladly.”

The wildcard is Boner going limp and telling Gowdy to back off behind the scenes.


44 posted on 05/06/2014 3:22:02 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Norm Lenhart
People in Hell demand Ice water Nancy. Now go make Trey a sammich.

And iron his shirts while you're at it!

45 posted on 05/06/2014 3:34:10 PM PDT by Tonytitan
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To: AppyPappy
She’s looking for a reason to walk out.

Like the Fleebaggers did in Wisconsin. Just like the D's to talk trash, strut, and make a show of things, especially when their case is kaput.

46 posted on 05/06/2014 3:51:34 PM PDT by bkopto (Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.)
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To: entropy12

I believe the most appropriate response from the Honorable Mr. Gowdy should be:

“We Won. Deal with it. Now sit the hell down and shut up.”


47 posted on 05/06/2014 3:53:42 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: entropy12
Me thinks the demoRats are caught in a dilemma.

Oh, hell no. Not with all the evening TV news shows and their drones on her side.

Remember, the president of CBS News is the brother of the Administration talking head who wrote the memo.

Bigtime cover there.

48 posted on 05/06/2014 4:07:15 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: headstamp 2
The wildcard is Boner going limp and telling Gowdy to back off behind the scenes.

Very good possibility. We wouldn't want any unpleasantness. That would make us sad.

49 posted on 05/06/2014 4:08:33 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: TexasCajun

Embrace the Suck!


50 posted on 05/06/2014 4:09:06 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
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To: Kackikat

NOPE!

FEDERAL PRISON!


51 posted on 05/06/2014 4:12:00 PM PDT by Taxman
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To: headstamp 2
The wildcard is Boner going limp and telling Gowdy to back off behind the scenes.

Boner is weak kneed, for sure - which is why I suspicion he DID appoint Gowdy - there would have been hew and cry if he hadn't - BUT - should he now try to tamper Gowdy down, I have a feeling that Gowdy would tell him to get a spine.

52 posted on 05/06/2014 4:28:04 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does - by their fruits)
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To: entropy12

Sorry, Pelosi, elections have consequences


53 posted on 05/06/2014 4:44:45 PM PDT by therightliveswithus
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To: AppyPappy

Let her and all the Dems walk. That’s been a losing strategy since just before the election of Abe Lincoln as President. I’d like to see Democrats boycott the next dozen elections.


54 posted on 05/06/2014 4:48:26 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Taxman

I’m afraid Federal Prison would be too good for those two. I want them to be in a nursing home where Republicans who have lost their health insurance are their caretakers...imaging that?


55 posted on 05/06/2014 4:52:40 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: entropy12

Let the dems go. I remember how it made them look here in WI a few years ago when the state dems ran off to Rockford, IL so they couldn’t be arrested for not doing their jobs. We got a real nice bumper sticker out of that one.

What beats 14 democrat runners?

Answer: One WALKER!!!


56 posted on 05/06/2014 4:55:44 PM PDT by Wisconsinlady (Is the GOP actually TRYING to lose in 2014 and 2016?)
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To: Wisconsinlady

lol

I also think by dropping out they will show there is something to hide.


57 posted on 05/06/2014 4:57:40 PM PDT by entropy12 (I am sick of people who think Obama is no worse than Romney, as bad as Mitt was.)
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To: entropy12

While Pelosi is screaming for a “bipartisan” committee, Dingy Harry is refusing to have a committee in the Senate.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/reid-no-benghazi-select-committee-in-the-senate/article/2548138?custom_click=rss


58 posted on 05/06/2014 5:00:55 PM PDT by Wisconsinlady (Is the GOP actually TRYING to lose in 2014 and 2016?)
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To: entropy12

I have immense respect for Chairman Gowdy!

In other words, Pelousy...”kiss my butt!”


59 posted on 05/06/2014 5:05:20 PM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!l)
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To: NFHale

I think he did. :)


60 posted on 05/06/2014 5:08:34 PM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!l)
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