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Democrats Prepare to Throw Temper Tantrums Over Benghazi Select Committee
Townhall.com ^ | May 7, 2014 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 05/07/2014 7:50:30 AM PDT by Kaslin

Late yesterday House Speaker John Boehner announced the new Benghazi select committee will include seven Republicans and five Democrats. Because Republicans are the majority party in the House, they have also been appointed the majority on the committee.

Before the partisan count was announced, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi demanded the committee be split evenly between Republicans and Democrats, despite giving very little attention to Republicans during her time as Speaker in the majority. Now, even after being denied the same number of seats as Republicans on the panel because Democrats are in the minority, Pelosi is again asking for more Democrat power on the committee.

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Steny Hoyer, the No. 2 House Democrat, sent a letter to Speaker John Boehner late Tuesday urging him to reconsider plans to put seven Republicans and five Democrats on the panel. The House is expected to vote Thursday on the resolution establishing the committee, over Democratic objections.

"Another partisan review that serves only to politicize these attacks is disrespectful and unworthy of the American people," Pelosi and Hoyer wrote.

Lets not forget that Democrats (acting like adults as usual) have already threatened not to participate in the Benghazi investigation at all. If they do decide to participate, you can expect to see Democrats enter hearings with a well thought out plan not to ask questions of witnesses, but to attack the credibility of Rep. Trey Gowdy leading the investigation.

As we move forward, expect Democrats to protest nearly every part of this process in an effort to draw out the investigation to a point where bipartisan bickering turns everyone, including the public wanting more answers about Benghazi, off.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Ohio; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: bengahzi; johnboehner; nancypiglosi; ohio; southcarolina; treygowdy
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To: Kaslin
Sounds like the liberals' temper tantrum is reaching a crescendo.
21 posted on 05/07/2014 8:08:14 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: Red Badger

What if Boehner caves & gives Pelosi what she wants? Won’t be the first time.

“If it’s stupid & it works, it ain’t stupid”


22 posted on 05/07/2014 8:08:48 AM PDT by elcid1970
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To: txhurl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_urvjCXg6c


23 posted on 05/07/2014 8:09:18 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Of course. And also, we have that California REPUBLICAN, who rags on General Lovitz with regularity and who may appear on the Select Committee, carrying Marxist water.


24 posted on 05/07/2014 8:09:21 AM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Hey, it works for Putin too. Putin and Pelosi! College-Try all over the place.


25 posted on 05/07/2014 8:12:19 AM PDT by RitaOK ( VIVA CHRISTO REY / Public education is the farm team for more Marxists coming.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Bill Clinton taught them that “stonewall, deny, and mercilessly attack your accusers” was a successful tactic.

Which was an Alinsky tactic taught to Bill by his wife who was an ardent student of Alinsky,who wrote her college thesis on Alinsky and was even offered a job by Alinsky. Unexpected? Nah!

26 posted on 05/07/2014 8:14:07 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Kaslin

Time for the GOP to load up the Democrat seats on the panel with Democrats congressmen from the most conservative districts they can find.

The GOP is so poor at playing the game.


27 posted on 05/07/2014 8:16:02 AM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: Kaslin
Democrats cheat at most things. They cheated to get Obama elected/re-elected, to get affordable care act passed, sequestration, global warming and now voter ID and the constitution itself.

When do democrats not cheat?

28 posted on 05/07/2014 8:22:07 AM PDT by Rapscallion (Obama stands for the corruption of America in all aspects.)
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To: Kaslin

Payback’s a beach.


29 posted on 05/07/2014 8:24:36 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Kaslin
"Another partisan review that serves only to politicize these attacks is disrespectful and unworthy of the American people," Pelosi and Hoyer wrote.

So then, to avoid that, they're saying they WILL sit it out?

30 posted on 05/07/2014 8:24:54 AM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

LMAO!!!!!!!


31 posted on 05/07/2014 8:25:09 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Obama is so far in over his head, even his ears are beneath the water level.)
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To: Kaslin

I haven’t enjoyed watching heads explode more since I last watched “Scanners”.


32 posted on 05/07/2014 8:25:15 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

“Sorry for the lipstick on your Botox.”


33 posted on 05/07/2014 8:28:09 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Ted Grant

“Time for the GOP to load up the Democrat seats on the panel with Democrats congressmen from the most conservative districts they can find.”

RINO senators want in.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3153124/posts

Senate GOP: We want in on probe (Benghazi)


34 posted on 05/07/2014 8:30:24 AM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

Not surprising. I like that they put democrats scared of losing in 2014 on this panel. That may keep them (a bit) more honest.


35 posted on 05/07/2014 8:34:38 AM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: Kaslin

The democrat party is a criminal organization cleverly disguised as a political party.


36 posted on 05/07/2014 8:34:41 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Red Badger
Their 'delaying tactics' will backfire and just prove to the American people that there really is something there..................

My problem is the American people for the most part are so blinded with toys that they are vaccinated against seeing the truth. The communists machine for years created a dream world they live in and by name we call them Democrats. We cannot afford the years it will take, even if patriots are in control, to reverse the damage this communists empire have thrown us in.

Don't believe me LOOK AROUND YOU!

37 posted on 05/07/2014 8:40:57 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: Kaslin

“You have to pass it to see what is in it”.

Paybacks are a bitch, Pelosi.


38 posted on 05/07/2014 8:42:17 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Kaslin

Pelosi is again asking for more Democrat power on the committee.
Democrat power is how the mess got started spooky old Nancy has no cells left.


39 posted on 05/07/2014 8:42:24 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: All
Remember this moment?.........
40 posted on 05/07/2014 8:44:20 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." Lao Tzu)
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