Republicans Tee Off on Libya

Weekly Standard ^ | 10/28/12 | MICHAEL WARREN

[Evil Slayer]

On Sunday's political talk shows, several Republicans criticized the Obama administration's response to the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. Here's Senator John McCain of Arizona on CBS's Face the Nation:

You know, this administration is very good at touting and giving all the details like when they got Bin Laden. But now, we know that there were tapes, recordings inside the consulate during this fight, and they've gotten—they came—the F.B.I. finally got in and took those, and now they're classified as "top secret." Why would they be top secret? So the president went on various shows, despite what he said he said in the Rose Garden, about terrorist acts, he went on several programs, including "The View" including "Letterman" including before the U.N., where he continued to refer, days later, many days later, to this as a spontaneous demonstration because of a hateful video. We know that is patently false. What did the president know? When did he know it? And what did he do about it?

McCain said for "literally days and days" the White House "told the American people something that had no basis in fact whatsoever."

Newt Gingrich, on ABC's This Week:

But the bigger issue is, whether it’s unemployment or it is what happened in Benghazi, where we’ve had this strange situation over the weekend that the Secretary of Defense apparently refused to obey the President’s order, if the president is telling the truth and he actually instructed his assistants to get aid to Benghazi, we're now being told that the Secretary of Defense canceled that. And I think these kinds of things all drag down the Obama campaign.

Ohio senator Rob Portman talked on Fox News Sunday about a "shocking breakdown" with regard to the Obama administration's response:

[Paul R.]

In a sense I understand what you are saying, but if McCain “made like a FReeper” he’d be slammed as an extremist, and disrespectful, from every direction (except ours).

I think he’s being more judicious, and slipping in a key point. It only has to work on a few % of the voters now thinking of voting for Obama, or unsure...

His point? To quote: “We know that is patently false.”

McCain just called Obama a flat out liar. Given McCain’s history, do you really expect to get more out of him? I was rather pleasantly surprised, myself.

My recollection, watching (I don’t have the full transcript handy), was that he also pretty much called the Administration incompetent.

Now if he’ll just keep saying these things, it might draw a little attention...

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