Posted on 05/22/2014 11:28:25 AM PDT by smoothsailing
This is exactly the type of corruption and pandering that caused this administration’s many scandals. The Democratic Party suffers from a complete lack of basic accountability. Its first instinct is to lie and cover up.
Hillary Clintons world was so worried about a Republican investigation of the Benghazi attacks, they sent a message to House Democrats: We need backup.
So Clinton emissaries launched a back channel campaign, contacting several House Democratic lawmakers and aides to say theyd prefer Democrats participate, according to sources familiar with the conversations.
Hillary Clinton stacked the first investigation of Benghazi with her people. Now she has managed to do it in Congress.
Republicans are making it clear they plan to use the power of the Benghazi Select Committee to continue to politicize the tragedy that occurred in Benghazi, which is exactly why Democratic participation in the committee is vital, a Democrat close to Clinton world said. Inevitably, witnesses ranging from Secretary Clinton to Secretary [John] Kerry will be subpoenaed to testify, and the Democrats appointed to the committee will help restore a level of sanity to the hearings, which would otherwise exist solely as a political witch hunt.
So we’ve got the Clinton-Dem talking points on the table. They don’t intend to investigate the murder of four Americans in any way. They are there to protect Hillary Clinton and accuse any investigators of being crazies engaged in a witch hunt.
If Clinton testifies, it will almost certainly be one of the blockbuster moments for the committee and an important prelude as she considers a second run for the White House.
She can pound the table some more and shriek, “What difference does it make anyway.”
Pelosi picked Reps. Linda Sanchez and Adam Schiff of California, Adam Smith of Washington state and Tammy Duckworth of Illinois to fill the panel. Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, will serve as ranking member.
Cummings became notorious for his frenzied obstructionism and tantrums. Linda Sanchez can blame the Vietnamese. Again.
Tammy Duckworth will be there to provide cover for the anti-military party as a token.
New York Rep. Eliot Engel said Democrats shouldnt allow the investigation to be made about one person.
I think the American public feels that Hillary Clinton did an outstanding job as secretary of state and if Republicans are using Benghazi to blemish her record, I dont think it will stick, Engel said.
That must be why no one can seem to name anything Clinton did in office… except Benghazi.
That’s just pathetic, but not surprising.
It’s not going to work.
Now you’re talking! :)
You’re probably right and I dearly hope the uncertainty drives them nuts, it’s exactly what they deserve.
I’d like to be a fly on the wall at meetings between Elijah and Nancy of him keeping her up to date. I wonder if she’ll take the motherly consoling route to keep him calmed down. LOL!
She is the anti-Christ.
She has gotten away with murder, securities fraud, obstruction of justice, accesory to rape, theft, cocaine dealing, pathological lying, assassination, incompetence, public drunkenness, election fraud... her fingerprints have been found on stolen documents that were evidence in capital crimes...
You will never put her behind bars where she belongs.
She will eat your children and grandchildren and never be punished.
The press will praise her for it.
She has gotten away with EVERYTHING to date.
I'm not a defeatist, I'm a realist and I don't have a wooden stake. Demonstrate to me one time since 1974 when that evil shrew has been punished for a blatant crime, misdemeanor, failure, faux pas, etc.
Here is Hillary Clinton on YouTube committing a felony that is punishable by 5 years in Federal Prison.
Start there, then come back and tell me I'm defeatist.
Good idea, Republicans can ask true or false, yes or no questions. The witness is allowed 5 seconds to reply. If there is no reply in the time allowed, the asker assigns an answer of his or her choosing.
Democrats can submit multiple choice questions to Elijah Cummings for approval and then only Cummings can ask those questions to the witness and he’s not allowed to read them. The 5 second rule for answering applies. If there is no reply in the time allowed, Trey Gowdy assigns an answer of his choosing.
No doubt about it.
Maybe you should change your screen name to “Fear Hillary”.
You seem to believe in that more than “Fear The People”.
I think their participation highlights a difference between the way Bill handles a scandal and the way Barack does. Bill likes to get out in front of it and talk his way out of it. Barack prefers to fold his arms and dare anyone to "make me."
Bill is a con artist. Barack is a belligerent man-child
for these hypocrites to term themselves as ‘watch-dogs’ is laughable .
These persons in particular have served as nothing but dissimulators , misinformationists , minions of a diversion and distraction strategy , propagated by an entire Administration that has made treason it’s most consistent policy .
Time to build gallows in this country again .
You’re certainly right about the different response styles of Clinton and Obama. It confirms the notion that the Clintons are behind the Pelosi 180.
BTW, I'm good with a hammer and nails and I enjoy working with wood. :)
Elijah Cummings,
if it wasn’t for his race hustle he’d be a grocery bag boy.
The drug trade is estimated to be a $3 TRILLION cash business. That is the GDP of some nations, without overhead. Wall street banks are laundering billions, and have a labyrinth of off shore accounts, which finds its' way into political coffers, as well as media control.
I would like to know/understand what conditions could lead to the committee disbanding or just chucking the affair into the ashcan of USA politics.
I would bet she gets a salary from the Clinton Global Initiative slush fund as does Chelsea and Huma.
You are way too kind.
He's too stupid to be a bag boy. Likely he would be snorting coke and scamming EBT cards to buy his steaks and beer while he sold smack on the corner to other racist junkies and beating up on his ho's.
And that is being too kind.
Can we dare to hope that Gowdy will put a permanent stake into canckles?
She thinks she’s the smartest woman in the world but my money is on him. I’ll bet Trey never failed a bar exam.
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