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GOP will start Benghazi probe without Dems after Nancy Pelosi rejects committee rules
The Washington Examiner ^ | May 9, 2014 | Susan Ferrechio, chief congressional correspondent

Posted on 05/09/2014 6:13:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has rejected the terms of a GOP-created select committee on Benghazi, but Republicans are moving ahead without them.

A top aide to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told the Washington Examiner that the Benghazi Select Committee met today for the first time and plans to move ahead with its investigation, despite the missing Democrats.

"We made a fair offer," Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said. "We hope they appoint Democrats. At this point, it's time to get to work."

Pelosi, D-Calif., rejected the panel's terms in letter to Boehner that was in response to GOP proposal about the select panel would operate.

Democrats say they are concerned it will not allow their party to participate fairly in the investigation, which will involve subpoenas and viewing of classified materials related to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: benghazi; boehner; democrats; pelosi
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Remember the 911 commission where they had people on the panel who ought to have been out front being interrogated?


41 posted on 05/09/2014 7:59:25 PM PDT by marron
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To: Kickass Conservative

I’m going to use that, consider that appropriated.


42 posted on 05/09/2014 8:13:21 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Pelosi, D-Calif., rejected the panel's terms in letter to Boehner that was in response to GOP proposal about the select panel would operate.

Actually Nancy Pelosi is too stupid & dull to write a response on her own. Her staff wrote the response and Nazi Pelosi just attached her own name to it!

43 posted on 05/09/2014 8:16:10 PM PDT by rcrngroup
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To: Hotlanta Mike

You are right on!!! The Democrats are in full panic mode!!! They are fighting amongst themselves!!! They know Obama is toast. If they had one inkling of a brain among them....they would force Obama to resign. They are commiting political “Hari-Kari” by their own hand!!! November, 2014 is almost here!!!


44 posted on 05/09/2014 8:16:43 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I don’t see the hearings turning into a circus if we can keep the clowns from the ‘RAT party from showing up. We also will have a better chance at getting down to the truth of what really happened. The ‘RATS can stay home and screen YouTube videos for their Muzzie pals.


45 posted on 05/09/2014 8:22:28 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: dandiegirl

They need to move quickly if they want to attract conservatives to vote for incubant Rwpublicans.


46 posted on 05/09/2014 8:29:06 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: RetiredTexasVet

What’s the status of that ethics complaint the lady for Texas (Englebrect?) filed against Cummings?


47 posted on 05/09/2014 8:33:39 PM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: kempster

Trey Gowdye on the radio said, this week, she will be or not be under oath but that it is a crime to lie to congress in such a setting.

I think, essentially, she will be under oath. I don’t think Trey would waste his time

He also said he would question everyone at length, not in five minute sound bites that ehy’re so good at.

This looks, to the propaganda experts, like something the opposition just got their teeth into and won’t let up on. They’re trying to spin it as such.

Pelosi, desperate and confused, is she ever anything else?, opted out of the hearings. For the whole Democrat House.

Maybe no one wants in on this.

But they are missing something. This is, to them, one of Hillary’s cover ups, where she leaves every inconvenient to her survivor holding the bag.

But it isn’t.

Hillary is incompetent. She was always going to fall on her face. I know NYC liberal show people who said as much when she took the Senate seat.

H fooled around. and this is what we have.

But this is an international incident. The dems are so deluded, oh, and so are the ‘Hoover Republicans’ Mark Levin talks about.

The truth of this can not go away. The Chinese and the Arab world, Putin, the Euros, they all know what is going on here, as well as any caring American housewife.

They apologized to the terrorists for causing them to want to whack our representatives, our diplomats, and a cover up ensued.

And then a fifteen month cover up of a cover up on top of more.

It transcends what the mainstream media can do to cover it up, primarily because the inquiry is not designed to be a media circus.

It is to get to the truth.

And anyone who has ever served in the military knows this is a case of not only leaving troops behind, a much worse offense than any single case of a soldier deserting, in my mind, but the highest echelons of the government leaving troops behind, without backup, ignoring pleas for backup.

It’s not so much a military code. It is natural law, and it is in the fiber of our country, and those who ignore it stand out and not in a good way.

So, this will not go away


48 posted on 05/09/2014 8:58:44 PM PDT by stanne
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“According to a Democratic leadership aide, Pelosi rejects a rule that will not prevent chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., from issuing unilateral subpoenas without consulting with Democrats. The rules would also allow Republicans to prevent Democrats from interviewing witnesses.”

What rules did the Dems operate under when Nancy was in Charge? Did subpoenas require sign off from Republicans? If not, TFB.

49 posted on 05/09/2014 9:04:28 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Held my nose to vote.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Pelosi is nothing but a stool infused assclown. Needs to be sent home and get another face adjustment.


50 posted on 05/09/2014 10:13:06 PM PDT by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No lying Marxists to hide the truth? What’s wrong with that?

Pray America wakes up


51 posted on 05/09/2014 11:13:34 PM PDT by bray (The Republic of Texas 2022 is here)
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To: Busko

Bttt


52 posted on 05/09/2014 11:40:13 PM PDT by Guenevere
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To: Texas Songwriter
They need to set aside decorum and plow the facts.

I think that is what Boehner just did

53 posted on 05/10/2014 12:00:42 AM PDT by kidd
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Crazy doll eyes Nancy is looking crazier than ever, every time I see her mug on TV. I'm noticing that her eyes roll one way and then another, independandtly of each other. If ever anyone should hang, it's her. Everything that comes out of her mouth should eventually convict her..despicable lying POS that she is.
54 posted on 05/10/2014 1:11:06 AM PDT by itssme
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Nancy hears all about it...Growdy n all:

....enjoy the suck....

55 posted on 05/10/2014 1:19:33 AM PDT by spokeshave (OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
Oh bad move Nancy Pelosi.

Bad move.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh-SYu7IxiQ

Pelosi is a no-account from a totally secure 'Rat district. If she truly wants her side to win, she should shut up and fade into the woodwork.

56 posted on 05/10/2014 1:26:02 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: rcrngroup
Actually Nancy Pelosi is too stupid & dull to write a response on her own. Her staff wrote the response and Nazi Pelosi just attached her own name to it!

...with different text in the body of the letter....but with the same wrong spelling of the word "through" at the end of the second line......snicker.

Here's one of them....


57 posted on 05/10/2014 1:31:21 AM PDT by spokeshave (OMG.......Schadenfreude overload is not covered under Obamacare :-()
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

Obama’s legacy is now doomed to the ash heap of history as a disaster. Their bigger problem is that by delaying breaking away from Obama he is dragging the party down further and further. Moreover while all these liberal pundits and the media are focused on national elections, the GOP will be gaining control of even more state houses across the country in this next election cycle. And with winning state elections comes redistricting, giving the majority the ability to gain advantage in future elections.


58 posted on 05/10/2014 6:13:48 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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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“But the Republicans are moving ahead without them”.

What did they expect? The Republicans would fold their tent and go home without the RATS participation?


59 posted on 05/10/2014 6:19:29 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Democrats say they are concerned it will not allow their party to participate fairly in the investigation...

Simply not true! They know damn well they are invited!

Throughout Congressional History, the party in majority gets more seats on committees. In this case, it is only a couple more Representatives and the majority party gets to pick an overall Chair.

But it is just POLITICS to say they won't be allowed to participate fairly.

Now by sitting it out completely, they cannot participate all ALL? How is this MORE fair?

Oh yeah, stupid me! It's all propaganda and show--Pelosi at work.

60 posted on 05/10/2014 6:32:25 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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