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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
It was He Who Shall Not Be Named. At least that's how Fox News wants it.
NOOOOOOO! Speak not his name. You will summon Unbeing!
edited 8th May '13 12:46:32 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Diplomat Gregory Hicks Describes Night Of Benghazi Attack In Excruciating Detail
White House Defends Hillary Clinton, Blasts Republicans’ ‘Attempts To Politicize’ Benghazi
GOP chairman Buck McKeon denied Benghazi files
edited 8th May '13 12:51:57 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016Yeah, GOP, it's not like an intelligence failure on your last President's watch got 3,000 Americans killed or anything.
(With apologies to Dr. Tentacles.)
edited 8th May '13 12:51:16 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Frankly, I don't recall vast inquiries over the attacks on diplomatic posts that occurred during the Bush years, mainly because the country was whipped into an anti-terrorist war frenzy to the point where criticizing the administration was un-American.
edited 8th May '13 12:54:33 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Tea Party Group Plans Anti-MSNBC Protest At Comcast Shareholders Meeting
edited 8th May '13 1:01:33 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I'd be mildly annoyed, rather than utterly disgusted at the "Benghazi stupid" if they weren't being so very, very blatant in their hypocrisy, and had pressed Bush harder and tried to impeach him. At least then I could put it down to and honest, if overzealous desire the protect 'Merica against all reason.
As it is is, it's cheap, tacky pandering.
They are building a narrative. Democratic administrations get savagely attacked for every perceived failure, and the lack of "substantive" response is proof that the system is corrupt and has to be overthrown. Meanwhile, all the commotion acts as a distraction from the President's legislative agenda and forces Democrats to concentrate on placating the media frenzy, lest they appear complicit through inaction. The inability to focus on substantive issues is then used by Republicans against the Democrats in elections — they had four years and look how little they accomplished!
It's a calculated plan to render Democratic Presidents unable to govern.
edited 8th May '13 2:08:28 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Democrats holler about stuff too, but they don't go into hardcore "refuse to govern" mode.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"![]()
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Oh yes they did,....we're just not old enough to remember all of it. But I'll tell you one thing,no one let go of the whole Scooter Libby thing for a while.
That's really all Benghazi is,...just the GOP counterpart to Scooter-Libby,no one's gonna freaking remember it that isn't a partisan hack.
edited 8th May '13 2:36:02 PM by terlwyth
Ouch.
edited 8th May '13 2:40:06 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016edited 8th May '13 2:39:27 PM by RadicalTaoist
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.Christ on a bike.
The Heritage foundation recently released a "study" which suggested that "hispanics may never reach IQ parity with whites," among other really racist things. Sufficed to say, people are pissed and the conservative media groups are latching onto the report.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/05/08/heritage-report-author-hispanic-immigrants-may/193962
Caffeinated gum pulled after FDA pressure

They've wanted to impeach Obama since before he took office. The Republicans are not rational.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"