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Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#114301: Mar 3rd 2016 at 4:23:33 PM

I thought that was Benghazi.

"Yup. That tasted purple."
Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#114302: Mar 3rd 2016 at 4:24:39 PM

@Deadbeatloser: It's meant to sink Hillary and let the GOP control all three branches of government, thereby allowing them to ignore checks and balances.

Benghazi had the same goal.

In fact, lots of Republican actions have had this goal.

edited 3rd Mar '16 4:26:24 PM by Balmung

ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
#114303: Mar 3rd 2016 at 4:25:55 PM

And if that happens, will we have a dictatorship?

PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#114304: Mar 3rd 2016 at 4:27:40 PM

Basically the concern is besides it holding SECRET BENGZHAI CONSPIRACY, is as Owl is point out is the more mundane issue of committing a general crime that she was discussing matters of National Security on a Private Network (i.e. her own Server, instead of the government's internal servers). Which is an offense,. Yes tons of others have done it, but the one who gets caught with the hand in the cookie jar is the one who gets punished.

The ends are yes, GOP runs the government with a Rubio Muppet in the Oval office, but still, that is the basic problem now, her having discussed national security issues.

edited 3rd Mar '16 4:29:50 PM by PotatoesRock

Deadbeatloser22 from Disappeared by Space Magic (Great Old One) Relationship Status: Tsundere'ing
#114306: Mar 3rd 2016 at 4:28:42 PM

The fact that said person who got caught in the jar happens to be the presumptive nominee for the other party is just a lucky coincidence, basically.

"Yup. That tasted purple."
SolipsistOwl Since: Jan, 2016
#114307: Mar 3rd 2016 at 4:29:06 PM

Benghazi is an unrelated scandal, although many people (especially Republicans) suspect Clinton discussed Libya more on her private E-mail address than her official one, so the Benghazi Committee was initially unable to find any documents implicating her or her staff. (100% speculation)

One of Hillary Clinton's longtime advisers was hacked and the hacker leaked that she was using a non-government E-mail account. This then revealed that she had a private server literally in her closet.

Judicial Review (a conservative watchdog group) issued a FOIA request to see if any E-mails on her server were work-related, forcing the State Department to check. Prior to turning over thousands of printed out pages of her E-mails (rather than the server itself), Clinton was allowed to review and delete 'personal' E-mails. She reported deleting 30,000.

The developing controversy is that so many of the E-mails she turned over have some level of classification that you have to wonder what might have 'slipped by' in the "personal" ones she deleted.

Who might be charged and for what is at this point all speculative, but it's a certainty that someone will take the fall. Even if it's just a slap-on-the-wrist like for General Petraeus.

First on CNN: Team Romney explores blocking Trump at RNC

Mitt Romney has instructed his closest advisers to explore the possibility of stopping Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention, a source close to Romney's inner circle says.

The 2012 GOP nominee's advisers are examining what a fight at the convention might look like and what rules might need revising.

"It sounds like the plan is to lock the convention," said the source.

Romney is focused on suppressing Trump's delegate count to prevent him from accumulating the 1,237 delegates he needs to secure the nomination.

But implicit in Romney's request to his team to explore the possibility of a convention fight is his willingness to step in and carry the party's banner into the fall general election as the Republican nominee. Another name these sources mentioned was House Speaker Paul Ryan, Romney's running mate in 2012.

edited 3rd Mar '16 4:44:02 PM by SolipsistOwl

Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#114308: Mar 3rd 2016 at 4:37:03 PM

Benghazi is kinda like this for Republicans:

edited 3rd Mar '16 4:39:00 PM by Ramidel

LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#114309: Mar 3rd 2016 at 4:48:39 PM

[up]Funny you say that because most of the comments in that video are saying that's all there is to Hilary Clinton.

JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#114310: Mar 3rd 2016 at 4:59:14 PM

@I love dogs. I'm pretty sure the Republicans had control of all three branches under Reagan for a bit. Sure he did a lot of things that many people here would disagree with (to put it politely and mildly.) and in the end the Dems were able to retake Congress and make themselves and absolute spanner in the works for his plans. The Republicans controlling all three branches will lead to an erosion liberal gains, but it will not lead to dictatorship.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#114312: Mar 3rd 2016 at 5:34:22 PM

Is that legal or even possible?

Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
#114313: Mar 3rd 2016 at 5:34:34 PM

I really, really doubt that. It was a swing and a miss against Obama, what makes him think that Clinton would be different?

BlueNinja0 The Mod with the Migraine from Taking a left at Albuquerque Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Mod with the Migraine
#114314: Mar 3rd 2016 at 5:49:11 PM

Is that legal or even possible?
Legal? Probably. Possible for Romney to get picked? Yes. Possible for Romney to win the general election? Doubtful ... but he's a big step above Trump or Cruz.

That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw
JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#114315: Mar 3rd 2016 at 5:50:35 PM

[up] He couldn't win the last one, and Trump and Sanders weren't running in 2012.

I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#114316: Mar 3rd 2016 at 5:53:43 PM

The Establishment knows they can't win 2016, any attempt to block Trump is going to one last desperate move to take control of their own party back.

Oh really when?
LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
A real bad hombre
#114317: Mar 3rd 2016 at 5:55:54 PM

That video makes me think of Trump and his painfully empty promises more than anything. And plus his promises are awful anyway.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
Iaculus Pronounced YAK-you-luss from England Since: May, 2010
Pronounced YAK-you-luss
#114318: Mar 3rd 2016 at 5:56:29 PM

It's confirmed. Open the bloodgates.

What's precedent ever done for us?
AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#114319: Mar 3rd 2016 at 5:57:58 PM

Honestly, if they want Trump to lose the Presidency, then they should go through with getting Romney the nomination somehow. Trump will probably split, but it'll create a large enough rift to ensure that neither of them win, and keep a good chunk of the population from moving to Canada.

Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
A real bad hombre
#114320: Mar 3rd 2016 at 5:59:36 PM

I'm not surprised that the GOP is (allegedly) trying the nuclear option at this point.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
wehrmacht belongs to the hurricane from the garden of everything Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
belongs to the hurricane
#114321: Mar 3rd 2016 at 6:00:28 PM

Honest question: how would you all rate Romney compared to the other members of the GOP? I wasn't following the 2012 election very closely so I don't actually know that much about him.

LinkToTheFuture A real bad hombre from somewhere completely different Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
A real bad hombre
#114322: Mar 3rd 2016 at 6:01:31 PM

He's very much a big business Establishment guy.

edited 3rd Mar '16 6:01:42 PM by LinkToTheFuture

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#114323: Mar 3rd 2016 at 6:03:41 PM

I'd trust him not to start WW3, not to attempt the ethnic extermination of all people with brown skin in the Middle East, and not to lock Muslims in ghettos.

Which means that right now he's my favorite Republican.

Oh really when?
AdricDePsycho Rock on, Gold Dust Woman from Never Going Back Again Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
Rock on, Gold Dust Woman
#114324: Mar 3rd 2016 at 6:04:47 PM

I hated him. Romney was this weird human anomaly that looked alien and acted like a robot, and yet still came off as so white bread that the cast of Happy Days looks hipper than him.

But compared to Trump or Cruz, he's a damn saint.

edited 3rd Mar '16 6:05:14 PM by AdricDePsycho

Have you any dreams you'd like to sell?
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#114325: Mar 3rd 2016 at 6:04:50 PM

The GOP thinks that anyone other than Trump (except maybe Cruz) isn't going to hurt them in the Senate/Governor's mansions like the second coming of Barry Goldwater.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

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