Discussion: Bill Clinton 'Felt Bad' For GOP Leader Who Spoke Benghazi Committee 'Truth'

It’s an occupational hazard. Politics ain’t beanbag. A momentary lapse of concentration and answering a chance question truthfully can result in your political downfall. In politics, any false step can become a faux pas.

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He forgot to add: “bless his heart”.

If he’s that dumb to tell the truth about what his party of shitheads is up to, I guess he doesn’t deserve to be in any leadership position.

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Big Dog on GOP: “I’d hate to be part of a political party where you lost your chance to be a leader just by telling the self-evident truth.”

Every so often, I re-read Shirer’s timeless memoir. One of its more-relevant passages springs to mind:

“[A] steady diet over the years of falsifications and distortions made a certain impression
in a casual conversation with a stranger in a restaurant, a beer hall, a cafĂ©, I would meet with the most outlandish assertions from seemingly educated and intelligent persons. It was obvious that they were parroting some piece of nonsense they had heard [in the media]
Sometimes one was tempted to say as much, but [if one did] one was met with such a stare of incredulity, such a shock of silence, as if one had blasphemed the Almighty, that one realized how useless it was even to try to make contact with a mind which had become warped and for whom the facts of life had become what [party leaders], with their cynical disregard for truth, said they were.” – Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (pp. 247-248).

With all due respect to Godwin, has anyone ever written a more fitting description of today’s Fox-seduced Republican?

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Kevin McCarthy was not passed over for telling the truth about the Benghazi as the lame stream media would like you to believe. My recollection is that the Tea Party was annoyed about Kevin McCarthy banging Renee Ellmers as part of his official duties.

For a conservative, Kevin McCarthy is almost as smart as blued eyed and ripped Princess Elsa Paul Ryan and George Bush the Dumb Torturer.

Quoting a report (TPM, I think) McCarthy, called for “an effective politically strategy to match the military strategy,” and he lamented that “we have isolated Israel while bolding places like Iran.”

McCarthy blamed President Obama’s White House for “putting us in tough decisions for the future,” but he voiced hope that a “safe zone would create a stem the flow of refugees.” And he scolded the Department of Veterans Affairs for failing to assist returning servicemen “who fought to the death in Ramadi.”

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That’s really eerie.

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Just imagine how bad he feels for the Elvenking right now.

https://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/05/17/benghazi-chairman-contradicts-fox-report-admits-military-could-not-have-saved-lives-benghazi-attack/210468

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Love it when the Big Dog trolls the GOP like this.

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as someone noted earlier


It’s a ‘bless his heart’ moment.

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THIS is Bubba’s highest and best use for Hillary’s campaign.

He must keep a thick skin and not lose it on Trump’s attack on him personally or on his legacy. Once Sanders sits down, all the other attack dogs who have been on a leash until the primary is over will be released with their multitude of talents, particularly Obama, Biden and Warren.

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Amen! Bill Clinton

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This is an important part of the Big Dog’s role in the campaign for Hillary, but he should start enunciating some real populous strategy outlining how a Clinton presidency will bring the economy and jobs back with the attending wages. I haven’t heard enough in real programs or plans for the general economy from either Hillary or Bernie. Bill is supposed to take over the economy per Hillary, so let’s get on with it.

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Of course, groupthink is not unique to Nazis, but one wonders how the GOP has achieved such committed unawareness without the threat of execution for diverging from the party line.

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Clinton’s a genius, not because he said it, but because he said it in just the right way, and in just the right frame to make this bit of old news something that Politico would pick up and highlight. Absolute genius. (no sarcasm here, just genuine awe)

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I am amazed at the lack of media attention to Gowdy’s mea culpa, the essential part of this 8th investigation into Benghazi. He admits Clinton’s alleged stand-down order is mere fiction, but still continues to waste our money.

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Hehe. Love when the Big Dog explains things clearly. He was one of the best advocates for the ACA when it was being rolled out. Too bad the media has jumped in to the “Bill is really a negative for Hillary” narrative.

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Totally agree. Just need him to stay on message. Things can get a bit dicey if he goes off script to respond to an attack on Hillary.

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The threat of execution is certainly real. It’s called being primaried by a Tea Party / Koch puppet.

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This poor guy just forgot the rules: The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club!

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I hope you have seen the film entitled Conspiracy with Kenneth Branagh, Stanley Tucci, et al about the gathering the Nazis held at a Wannsee resort to discuss the Final Solution. On Amazon streaming. Try it if you dare.

In January 1942, as the United States enters World War II, a conference assembles near Berlin. SS Gen. Heydrich (Kenneth Branagh) and his associate, Lt. Eichmann (Stanley Tucci) call the meeting to discuss the “evacuation” of Germany’s Jews and other undesirables, a code word for their extermination in concentration camps. To begin this Final Solution, they must change the mind of a small group of men opposed to the idea, led by Chancellor Kritzinger (David Threlfall).

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