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She’s right, as usual.
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Congressional committees are usually weighted in favor of the majority party. Aren’t “special committees” usually handled the same way?
The beautiful thing about Elizabeth Warren is that she is comfortable fighting the plutocratic, seditious, racist, xenophobic, insular, anarchistic, socially Darwinist Republicans.
I love this lady’s courage. I once saw a recent post on another site which implied that Elizabeth Warren’s temperament as a lioness fighting for the people would be bad for her spirit.
I disagree. I believe that her temperament validates her spirit.
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Democrats need to add up all the money the Republican House has spent (wasted) over the past 2 years on Obamacare repeal, Benghazi, the non-existent IRS scandal, and shutting down the government. Then make an ad listing the programs for ordinary people that this money could have funded.
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There is a big difference between how many people you put on a committee and the powers you give to both sides. If you want a fair process you give both sides relatively equal power over calling witnesses, investigative staff, time questioning, etc. The oversight on Watergate, Iran/Contra and 9/11 for example all had significant efforts at letting both sides have a say and producing a bipartisan report. The GOP has not done that with any oversight investigations in the last several years - they have given themselves the unilateral power to define the scope of the investigations, hold hearings and call witnesses. So for example in the IRS case Issa tasked the investigators with only looking at “targeting” of conservative groups - which in turn led to one sided reports that ignored the fact that the IRS looked at groups from all parts of the political spectrum, but the majority then claimed were conclusive evidence. You can imagine what such a process might lead to on Benghazi, which is what the Dem leadership is concerned about.
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Too bad that she won’t fight for U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith, and CIA contractors Tyrone S. Woods and Glen Doherty. Instead she prefers to provide cover to the incompetence of the government.
Wondering why the Democrats are getting so riled up if this Benghazi thing has nothing to it…hmmm!!!
You mean like the over $600 Million and growing for the ObamaCare website, built by a foreign company, that could have been built for $1 Million max?
Or perhaps you mean like the money spent by Progressive Democrats hyping the government shutdown that resulted in ONE, yes ONE, lost job?
Or perhaps you mean the Progressive Senate that couldn’t pass a budget for over 4 years?
Or perhaps you mean like the money spent by the Progressive administration and Democrats talking about, as the Vice President said “…that 3 letter word, JOBS…” where we have fewer people in the workforce and fewer JOBS?
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Yeah. That’s what I’m talkin’ about.
Listen up, Nancy. There are your talking points.
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Hmm. Seems as if the trolls have broken the secret code.
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Wow, I’m impressed. Now let’s see if you can name the Americans killed in these attacks under BUSH.
January 22, 2002. Calcutta, India. Gunmen associated with Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami attack the U.S. Consulate. Five people are killed.
June 14, 2002. Karachi, Pakistan. Suicide bomber connected with al Qaeda attacks the U.S. Consulate, killing 12 and injuring 51.
October 12, 2002. Denpasar, Indonesia. U.S. diplomatic offices bombed as part of a string of “Bali Bombings.” No fatalities.
February 28, 2003. Islamabad, Pakistan. Several gunmen fire upon the U.S. Embassy. Two people are killed.
May 12, 2003. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Armed al Qaeda terrorists storm the diplomatic compound, killing 36 people including nine Americans. The assailants committed suicide by detonating a truck bomb.
July 30, 2004. Tashkent, Uzbekistan. A suicide bomber from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan attacks the U.S. Embassy, killing two people.
December 6, 2004. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Al Qaeda terrorists storm the U.S. Consulate and occupy the perimeter wall. Nine people are killed.
March 2, 2006. Karachi, Pakistan again. Suicide bomber attacks the U.S. Consulate killing four people, including U.S. diplomat David Foy who was directly targeted by the attackers. (I wonder if Lindsey Graham or Fox News would even recognize the name “David Foy.” This is the third Karachi terrorist attack in four years on what’s considered American soil.)
September 12, 2006. Damascus, Syria. Four armed gunmen shouting “Allahu akbar” storm the U.S. Embassy using grenades, automatic weapons, a car bomb and a truck bomb. Four people are killed, 13 are wounded.
January 12, 2007. Athens, Greece. Members of a Greek terrorist group called the Revolutionary Struggle fire a rocket-propelled grenade at the U.S. Embassy. No fatalities.
March 18, 2008. Sana’a, Yemen. Members of the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic Jihad of Yemen fire a mortar at the U.S. Embassy. The shot misses the embassy, but hits nearby school killing two.
July 9, 2008. Istanbul, Turkey. Four armed terrorists attack the U.S. Consulate. Six people are killed.
September 17, 2008. Sana’a, Yemen. Terrorists dressed as military officials attack the U.S. Embassy with an arsenal of weapons including RPGs and detonate two car bombs. Sixteen people are killed, including an American student and her husband (they had been married for three weeks when the attack occurred). This is the second attack on this embassy in seven months.
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You are sure full of mis-information. How about the $24 billion you repubs cost us with your little government shut down? Maybe you could get the Kochs to re-imburse us.
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Horsecrap, Snookums.
Your lame attempt at changing the subject has failed.
And all you’ve accomplished is to show us how little you have to offer the conversation.
If you have proof of government incompetence, put it out there for all of us to see.
But you don’t, of course—all you have is tired and trite right-wing talking points and your overweening hubris.
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Love how Gowdy stuck his foot in his mouth before the “trial” actually begins. You say Congressional trial and the general public thinks impeachment.
If you can’t deliver, your base will call you a pussy. If you conduct an impeachment trial without an impeachment, the Silent Majority calls your bluff and the president’s approval rating soars. Women voters are already teed off. How many times do Republicans expect to abuse Hillary?
Warren is turning out to be much more effective than Al Gore at attacking the impeachers for not have any evidence or a case for holding this kangaroo court.
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Have you bought your Banghazi footed jammies yet?
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They’re not riled up.
They’re questioning—and quite correctly—the unfairness of how Boehner has set up the “select committee” to be a kangaroo court or star chamber where the whole procedure is designed to allow only one outcome.
As always, you have nothing.
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Maybe they think wasting millions of dollars on political theater is a cheap substitute for actual legislating? Hmmmmmm?
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Man, that outsourcing continues to work well…for conservative multinational billionaires.
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Jesus, you are a font of false information, aren’t you?
Isn’t it amazing the way these fools read the DC and Breitbart and then come here to parrot the exact same lies in a thread that hasn’t the least bit to do with any of his idiot charges? What is it with conservative clowns that they are incapable of sticking to the subject?
He’s reduced the damage of the government shutdown to “ONE, yes ONE, lost job” which might be true if it were a job that paid $24 billion.
He seems very much tickled by “the over $600 Million and growing for the ObamaCare website.” Maybe he should read this:
or this:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/10/24/the-myth-of-the-634-million-obamacare-website/196585
Sadly for him, his lies are low grade and transparent.
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