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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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To: Sub-Driver

21 posted on 05/11/2013 9:54:00 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

Hey, Pigloser......0bamao lied, people died.

Remember THAT cute ditty?


22 posted on 05/11/2013 9:55:05 AM PDT by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Well, Nancy, I guess you should be happy that it wasn’t one of your children who was murdered by terrorists in Lybia, and then their murder was covered up by a disgusting liar of a president.


23 posted on 05/11/2013 10:00:35 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: txnativegop

Well....excuse the hell out of me!

lol


24 posted on 05/11/2013 10:01:06 AM PDT by Howie66 (Molon Labe, Traitors!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I am certain that there is an Aggie out there that is sorely puckered up over your post..... lol


25 posted on 05/11/2013 10:02:13 AM PDT by Howie66 (Molon Labe, Traitors!)
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To: Diogenesis
Pelosi is the person responsible for the FRAUD of Obama. She filed THE altered Certificate to make him pRes_ _ential candidate.

DON'T EVER FORGET THAT!!! We should repeat that every chance we get.
26 posted on 05/11/2013 10:02:19 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Howie66

Now, Go forth and insult innocent critters no more! LOL!


27 posted on 05/11/2013 10:02:55 AM PDT by txnativegop (Fed up with zealots)
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To: Sub-Driver

This Pelosi rat has tied her tail to the SS obammy. No choice but to go down with the ship.


28 posted on 05/11/2013 10:03:20 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks like Right-Wing extremism.)
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To: Sub-Driver

(Here’s a slightly altered talking point/truth.)

Pelosi is actually saying the following:

“The families of the victims (dead and wounded) are obsessed with Benghazi.”

When she hits Republicans, she hits victims’ families at the same time.

There is no escaping it.


29 posted on 05/11/2013 10:03:42 AM PDT by txrangerette ("...hold to the truth; speak without fear..."(Glenn Beck))
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To: Sub-Driver

“What would be the purpose of that?”....Find out who is incompetent, traitorous or narcisistict?


30 posted on 05/11/2013 10:04:00 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Sub-Driver

She is a pure Alinskyite!


31 posted on 05/11/2013 10:06:10 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Sub-Driver
Heh....when the Benghazi story first broke, the Rats insisted that we had to wait until all the investigations were complete, that everyone involved had testified, and that the facts were all compiled before discussing it seriously.

Now, that we're at that point, the Rats are insisting that it happened a long time ago, that it makes no difference, and that Republicans are obsessed with old news.

Sorry, but that won't fly this time.

32 posted on 05/11/2013 10:08:42 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Sub-Driver
The facelifts aren't working anymore Nancy!
33 posted on 05/11/2013 10:09:00 AM PDT by mardi59 (IMPEACH OBAMA NOW!!!!!)
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To: Sub-Driver
This is EXACTLY how Watergate unfolded, Nasty.

Drip... drip... drip...

34 posted on 05/11/2013 10:10:53 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Moslems reserve the right to detonate anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: Sub-Driver

...'S SANE PEOPLE CRAZY.

35 posted on 05/11/2013 10:12:51 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama is the "Disco Duck" president. A no-substance novelty that reached number one.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Benghazi - 4 American dead

Iraq - 4,000 American dead

Staying the hell out of these wars - PRICELESS


36 posted on 05/11/2013 10:13:11 AM PDT by ex-snook (God is Love)
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To: Sub-Driver

Who the hell keeps voting for this b*tch? Reminds me of that joke I heard a while back (paraphrasing) where this guy dies and is accidentally sent to hell, and Satan is giving a sermon in the middle of this arena and the usher tells the guy

“Everyone is seated to their level of evil in life..For example, you are in the very last row because you were suppose to be sent to heaven...The row in front of you are all the people who helped Hitler get to power. the row in front of them are the people who helped Stalin and the row in front of them are the ones who helped Mao.”

Then the guy sees at the very first row by the stage all the people sitting there are engulfed in fire and magma and they screaming in agony and terror and the guys asks “So who are those people in the front row?” And the usher says “Those are the people who kept reelecting Nancy Pelosi”

LOL!


37 posted on 05/11/2013 10:13:50 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: Sub-Driver
R=Scandal

D=What difference does it make?

38 posted on 05/11/2013 10:14:50 AM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

That’s in Golden gate park I believe, right next to Lincoln way and Martin Luther King jr drive. Freakin’ unreal.


39 posted on 05/11/2013 10:16:55 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: Sub-Driver; All

yup...but a three year investigation into plamegate, despite the fact the special prosecutor knew two days into the investigation who revealed that joe plame’s wife was in the CIA, was justified for pelosi and liberals...


40 posted on 05/11/2013 10:18:09 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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