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Pelosi demands equal Dem/Repub Split for Select Committee
Hot Air ^ | May 6th, 2014 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 05/06/2014 1:28:35 PM PDT by entropy12

Good luck with that. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi faces pressure from all sides in regard to the newly-launched select committee to investigate Benghazi. Participating would legitimize the results, while boycotting it might open up Democrats to attacks on their concern for diplomatic personnel abroad, four of whom were killed in the attack on September 11, 2012, and leave administration officials no way to set the narrative through the friendly questioning of Democrats on the panel during public hearings. Pelosi hedged in the direction of participation by demanding an equal number of seats on the committee:

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Ohio; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: demtrialballoon; gowdy; gowdybsc; johnboehner; ohio; pelosi; pelosiisgoingtohell; selectcommittee; southcarolina; trey; treygowdy; trialballoon
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I love the response by Chairman Gowdy:

I can tell you this. It is not going to be evenly constituted and when she was Speaker Pelosi, she certainly showed no interests in having an equal number of Republicans and Democrats.

We’re in the majority. That may or may not be the case after November but we’re in the majority right now and we’re in the majority for a reason. And I just find it interesting that people’s ability to do math changes when they go from being the Speaker to the Minority Leader.

1 posted on 05/06/2014 1:28:36 PM PDT by entropy12
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To: entropy12

She’s looking for a reason to walk out.


2 posted on 05/06/2014 1:29:12 PM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: AppyPappy

Walking out is not necessarily a political winning strategy. Me thinks the demoRats are caught in a dilemma.


3 posted on 05/06/2014 1:31:05 PM PDT by entropy12 (I am sick of people who think Obama is no worse than Romney, as bad as Mitt was.)
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To: AppyPappy
She’s looking for a reason to walk out.

Good catch. I hadn't thought of that.

They've done it before.
4 posted on 05/06/2014 1:31:16 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Uninstall Fascist Firefox. Get Pale Moon.)
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To: entropy12
And I just find it interesting that people’s ability to do math changes when they go from being the Speaker to the Minority Leader.

It hasn't changed. She never could do math.

5 posted on 05/06/2014 1:31:19 PM PDT by Defiant (Let the Tea Party win, and we will declare peace on the American people and go home.)
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To: entropy12

WE WON Bitch !!!


6 posted on 05/06/2014 1:31:47 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: AppyPappy

I say:

Don’t let the door slam on your corrupt A$$ nutsy.


7 posted on 05/06/2014 1:31:57 PM PDT by mabarker1 (Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!!)
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To: entropy12

No but it gives the media a reason to ignore it.


8 posted on 05/06/2014 1:32:04 PM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: entropy12

Life is a b!tch witch, suck it up.


9 posted on 05/06/2014 1:32:20 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Surgeon General Warning: Use of Planned Parenthood is hazardous to unborn black fetuses.)
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To: entropy12

Yeah, the Russians boycotted the UN in the early 50s about something or other, and next thing you know, the US gets the UN to vote to save Korea. We went into Korea as the UN, not as the US. They never did it again.


10 posted on 05/06/2014 1:32:37 PM PDT by Defiant (Let the Tea Party win, and we will declare peace on the American people and go home.)
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She can’t change expression on her face either. Too much Botox has it’s consequences.


11 posted on 05/06/2014 1:33:01 PM PDT by entropy12 (I am sick of people who think Obama is no worse than Romney, as bad as Mitt was.)
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To: AppyPappy

Good, let her walk out. Let them stage a total walkout and parade down the Capitol steps. Let them march off to Maryland and hide in Steny Hoyer’s basement. Let them rot there.


12 posted on 05/06/2014 1:33:40 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: entropy12

People in Hell demand Ice water Nancy. Now go make Trey a sammich.


13 posted on 05/06/2014 1:34:01 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: smoothsailing

Better idea. Put no dems on the committee to begin with and tell the Dems and media to pound salt.

Then have a live internet feed so people can watch it ALL.


14 posted on 05/06/2014 1:35:23 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: AppyPappy

The Democrats are scared. That initial ploy that “we will not participate” fell flat. Still it will be very difficult to defend a obvious deception. Those emails were devastating. Period.


15 posted on 05/06/2014 1:38:08 PM PDT by allendale
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To: entropy12; All

Pelosi’s PC half/half ratio wrongly ignores that voters have made Republicans the House majority party. Committee should reflect current ratio of House Republicans to Democrats favoring Republicans imo.


16 posted on 05/06/2014 1:38:20 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: entropy12
Democrats tell the Repubs to pound sand when they're the Majority
and demand equality when they are not. The Reid Senate is doing just that,
shutting out the Repubs. They cannot be seen by their sociopathic donors
as being partisan in actions.
17 posted on 05/06/2014 1:41:55 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: Amendment10

If this were a case of any other set of Dems, I’d agree. But these idiots need to be excluded, minimized and shut out. Just as Harry does to Pubs in the senate.

And when called on it, the GOP should say exactly that. Then bull ahead doing the job they were elected to do.


18 posted on 05/06/2014 1:42:24 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: entropy12

EVERYONE knows damn well that if things were reversed politically, democrats would NOT ALLOW a SINGLE republican on their committee!

POUND SAND PELOSI!!!!


19 posted on 05/06/2014 1:43:31 PM PDT by Safrguns (PM me if you like to play Minecraft!)
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To: entropy12

Gowdy should expect the dems to walk out...He should set up an internet access for the world to connect to and IGNORE THE SO CALLED MAIN STREAM MEDIA COMPLETELY... NO COMMENT SECTION.. USE WATCH ONLY UNFILTERED KINDA LIKE CSPAN , JUST CALL IT CONSERVSPAN AND CUT THE OBAMASUCKUPS COMPLETELY...


20 posted on 05/06/2014 1:44:31 PM PDT by contrarian
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