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The B Is Back: The Benghazi Hearings Are Bull****
The Daily Beast ^ | May 7, 2014 | Michael Tomasky

Posted on 05/07/2014 9:06:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Instead of demanding a bipartisan Benghazi committee, the Democrats must boycott this farce, whose sole aim is to humiliate Obama and Clinton.

So House Republicans are zeroing in on the particulars of how the Select Committee to Mention the Words Clinton and Benghazi in the Same Sentence for as Long as Possible (I think that’s the official name) is going to work. On Tuesday morning, Nancy Pelosi issued a statement on the question: The panel has to be 50-50 bipartisan, she insisted, and all information must be shared on a bipartisan basis. Then, she seemed to imply, maybe the Democrats would play ball.

News broke Tuesday night that the Republicans were rejecting that and insisting on seven Republicans and five Democrats. Whatever. I don’t care if the Republicans had accepted Pelosi’s conditions and then agreed to bake cookies with the likeness of Franklin Roosevelt on top. There is no way on earth the Democrats should lend this committee the least bit of legitimacy. They absolutely must boycott this absurd, insane, sickening, repulsive, shameful, and at the same time shame-less circus.

Benghazi is and has been for some time a witch hunt that perverts all notions of democratic accountability and that obviously carries one purpose and one purpose only—the humiliation or worse of as many Democrats as possible, preferably the big cheeses (Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton). Ever since Watergate, the Republicans have wanted one of their own, one in which they’re the good guys, forcing a Democratic president to resign in disgrace. They tried it with Bill Clinton, but he just kept getting more and more popular as more and more Americans came to see the Republicans’ coup d’etat, their attempt to criminalize errant but perfectly legal behavior, for what it was—an affair....

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benghazi; benrhodes; dailybeast; demagogicparty; hillary; jaycarney; libya; memebuilding; michaeltomasky; obama; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; pelosi; susanrice
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1 posted on 05/07/2014 9:06:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Finding the truth is not important to the left.


2 posted on 05/07/2014 9:08:37 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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Why is the page redirecting to something called “Underground Ramen’s Mainstream Moment” . . . ?


3 posted on 05/07/2014 9:11:32 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Daily Beast, as I recall, is what’s left of what was left of Newsweek after it was sold for $1. Not just a single copy of Newsweek, but the entire Newsweek organization.


4 posted on 05/07/2014 9:12:15 PM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

take note of who speaks out against the truth about Benghazi coming out at last , at this time . Collect names , make lists . These people are all guilty of treason


5 posted on 05/07/2014 9:12:41 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

After listening to Trey Gowdy this morning, I don’t think humiliation is going to be their main problem.

And Trey is not Boehner, graham, McCain, rove nor any of those liberal media terrorized weenies.


6 posted on 05/07/2014 9:13:20 PM PDT by stanne
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Oh oh. Mrs. Tomasky’s little Mikey pooped in his Huggie again. That’s two nights in a row. The boy must have been looking at a calendar and figured out that November is coming fast. The DemocRATS’ two-bit version of the Third Reich is going to start winding down. America rising!


7 posted on 05/07/2014 9:16:41 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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Huh?


8 posted on 05/07/2014 9:17:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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It would be a political disaster for the Democrats and a gift to the Republicans if they boycott the Benghazi hearings. Hope they do.


9 posted on 05/07/2014 9:18:22 PM PDT by allendale
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Obama lied.

People died.


10 posted on 05/07/2014 9:18:43 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: Olog-hai

Here’s a different link, for some reason:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/voxbox/michael-tomasky.html


11 posted on 05/07/2014 9:19:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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The page on the DB redirects to another DB page with the title I mentioned. I tried this on more than one browser just to make sure it wasn’t a hijack.


12 posted on 05/07/2014 9:19:38 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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Ha ha! The left is scared of what will be uncovered here and they know it. Why else would they be so shrill and angry over the announcement of an official investigation and hearing?


13 posted on 05/07/2014 9:20:16 PM PDT by dowcaet
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The rats are so fake and phony, their lines are all rehearsed..

14 posted on 05/07/2014 9:20:50 PM PDT by vigilante2 (Re-elect nobody)
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To: Olog-hai

It looks like some weird ad redirect or something. They must be desperate for spare change over there. You can read the full article at my second link, just don’t click onto the title.


15 posted on 05/07/2014 9:21:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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Sorry Mikey. Your boy’s smidgens are about ready to come home to roost.


16 posted on 05/07/2014 9:22:37 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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Tomasky had a complete meltdown, and we captured it in print. :)

This is beautiful. I love seeing him crying.

17 posted on 05/07/2014 9:23:10 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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Too bad. Wanted to see the comments.

Tomasky is an apologist for political criminals, which makes him as bad as they are.


18 posted on 05/07/2014 9:25:35 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“There is no way on earth the Democrats should lend this committee the least bit of legitimacy. They absolutely must boycott this absurd, insane, sickening, repulsive, shameful, and at the same time shame-less circus.”

This boy sure does have trouble identifying a circus. The Barker and clowns are on his side of the tent.


19 posted on 05/07/2014 9:31:21 PM PDT by wita
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He went full Alinsky with no less than six adjectives, none of which are applicable except to the guilty parties w.r.t. Benghazi.


20 posted on 05/07/2014 9:36:07 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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