Posted on 05/12/2013 11:25:21 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
On MSNBC Saturday morning, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said that she, too, wants to find out what happened in Benghazi, but that Republicans are taking political advantage of the investigation to distract from other, more important issues.
“The obsession that some of my Republican colleagues have in the House doesn’t look like it’s on the path to really finding a solution, but just to keeping an issue alive,” she said. …
“We certainly have to give the full attention Benghazi deserves, but we cannot let it soak up all of the congressional attention,” Pelosi said. “What would be the purpose of that?” …
“We want to find out what did happen, but … then it becomes an issue that is subterfuge: ‘Let’s talk about Benghazi forever, so we don’t have to talk about what the American people want us to talk about,’” Pelosi said. “They want us to talk about jobs, they want us to talk about economic security, economic growth.” …
“Much of what is being said out there by some of my colleagues in Congress is simply not true … it simply isn’t true,” Pelosi said. “So we have to make sure the public record is clear.”
‘What would be the purpose of that?’ Oh, I don’t know — finding out the truth, maybe? And anyhow, there was plenty more going on on the Hill last week besides the Benghazi hearings, from immigration-reform to fracking rules, and as long as we’re at an economic-growth impasse, with Democrats demanding more stimulus measures and higher taxes and Republicans looking for regulatory rollback and tax reform, why don’t we devote some attention to figuring out exactly whose failures led to the deaths of four Americans and the subsequent pre-election lies about the nature of the attack to the American people? And hey, if some of the focus is political, that door easily swings both ways — the degree to which Republicans are ‘obsessively’ trying to push the story is only matched by the degree to which Democrats are ‘obsessively’ trying to minimize it.
And what is it Republicans are saying that “simply isn’t true”? After this week’s hearings and ABC report on the changed talking points, even certain media outlets are cautiously admitting that, er, well yeah, actually, there are some substantive lingering questions here and the White House is starting to look kinda’ bad, even as they’re determinedly trying to steer the story to the State Department as some kind of completely separate entity and keep the focus off of their shoddy MidEast policies. Sorry, but the time for sweeping this under the rug is long past, and somebody is certainly trying to distract here — but it ain’t the Republicans.
My original reaction after learning about Benghazi was the disbelief that there were supposedly no American military forces that could have come to the aid of the beleaguered personnel in time. And in actuality, there were...but the White House simply refused to act. Why? And if there were no forces who could have come to their aid, that would be grounds for questions as well considering the dangerous situation by which the American personnel were surrounded. The whole thing stinks to high heaven. And the trail of the stink leads back to the White House.
Maple, it's what's for lynch
I smell liberal fear.
Pelosi is too mentally unhinged to understand that it's the lying, coverup, and deception (just like Nixon's Watergate and Clinton's Kneepadgate)that the American people are upset about. Nobody likes being lied to..especially by their government who they elected and put their trust in.
“The obsession that some of my Republican colleagues have in the House doesn’t look like it’s on the path to really finding a solution, but just to keeping an issue alive,” she said. “
Wrong witch. It’s the Obama administration keeping this alive by continually lying about it for over 6 months.
Move on.
Hey Hillary, “What did YOU know and when did YOU know it”.
I nominate: Chelsea Clinton for Ambassador to Libya.
What difference does it make? ~~ Hillary Clinton
Excellent post. Keep it for rebroadcast in 2016...and 2015...and 2014...and often in 2013.
But NOT very far.
Pelosi: “We have to destroy the embassy to see who was in the embassy”
What’s 4 lives when you advocate aborting so many millions already?
1973 to Nancy Pelosi: That’s exactly what Republican Congresscritters said about the Democrats and Watergate. Sometimes an obsession is a good thing.
She does have a feeble mind, doesn’t she?
Considering that Obamacare will be in “full bloom” about the time of the 2014 mid-terms, her quest to regain the title “Madame Speaker” may be futile....
LOL.
Right!
Nice!
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