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How much will it take? Oh, maybe the price of an F-35 or two. Your concerns were tired 700 years ago; enough of the aristocracy.
Roland
“First, we need to move from being an opposition party to a proposition party,” Ryan said. “The challenges we face today are too difficult and demanding for us to turn our backs and walk away.”
What about a supposition party? I think the GOP should take two suppositories and speak to the public in the morning.
btw, Ryan's last budget proposal had more spending for the pentagon than they needed, or asked for, aka waste. Grossly Overbudget Profligacy is their legacy.
IDC who wins in 2016, as long as it is not Bush or Clinton! As a democrat I will vote for Bernie. But I will not vote for Hilary! She thinks that I am a terrorist for being an NRA member and a gun owner.
I don't agree with you at all about fast forwarding through the rumble. I think it is interesting, though sometimes agravating, to hear what the conservatives have to say. My family has emphatic conservatives and emphatic liberals. We get along very well because we rarely talk about politics. On the rare occasion that we do, it doesn't go well. I like to see the civil back and forth banter. Some of us could learn from it.
What did I think? I think the whole thing is theater and a distraction. Because I am less concerned about politics than I am about governance, I didn't bother watching it.
It appears I made the right call, and of course she held her own, I knew she would.
Sounds like another inconvenient truth.
Since nobody else pointed this out, I will: The rebels were funded & armed by Obama to take out Gaddafi, then they turned on our embassy. The U.S. had an attack force 1 mile away just in case of such an event, which was ordered to stand down by a mid-level CIA bureaucrat. This is the person who needs to be strung up in the middle of town square, not Hillary. Why is nobody talking about him?
This story has gotten under the skin of the Trolls. Can anyone name two people in contemporary American politics that have been more thoroughly investigated than the Clintons? When will the RNC reimburse the taxpayers for their decades long witch hunt? Hillary is not perfect and is not my first choice to be President. All of the candidates should be subject to the same scrutiny if this is how we are going to conduct ourselves.
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It changes nothing except that the truth is meaningless to you. Republicans refused security funding? Straw arguement. Reminder to you....the Dept of State is part of the Executive branch. They have discretionary funds for such things.
"The reason for the attack is pretty much immaterial."
So, according to you own words, the truth is pretty much immaterial. Lovely.
We have given Benghazi terrorists a huge victory. We have taken a historically small terrorist attack and turned it into a huge victory for the terrorists by making such a huge scandal out of it. What about 9/11, Beirut, Nairobi, the Cole ship and many others? Thanks to the Republicans.
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Ambassador Stevens was unavailable for comment.
Advice to Stopgap...please clean up your filthy language.
Trump just blatantly lied about his tax plan taxing the rich.
This Hurricane is “Patricious”
{a limerick}
Hurricane Patricia is malicious.
We’ll call her effects quite “patricious”.
She’ll have rained and winded
’til our misery is extended
beyond a point which anyone would wish us.
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SO FUCKING WHAT?? To all these shitheads that think that spending 10s of millions of tax payer dollars on 8 or nine government hearings on semantics about wether it was an attack about a video or some organized attack! Who gives a fuck? But a bunch of warmongering, lying, greedy fucking right-wing hypocrites. How the fuck would this change the outcome?
Why the fuck wouldn't anyone think, that at excatly the same time when all hell was breaking loose all over the islamic world regarding this video, that it might be not be logical to assume that it was likely to have been a motivating factor for the Benghazi attack. Which, of course, it was. These shitheads seem to think that Hillary should have been a Super-Woman that jumps into a phone booth and changes into her Super-Woman costume and saves all of the personnel at the Benghazi compound.
Never mind that the morning of the 911 attacks, that on all 4 flights, some members of the group that participated in the attack were identified as on the terrorist watch-list and were taken aside but eventually allowed to board their planes, including the leader Muhammed Atta. But of course this is of no concern to these Republicans.
Perhaps the ultimate proof of how screwed up these wing-nuts are is when Congressman Westmoreland harped on and on at the hearing about Secretary Clinton not bringing in FEST (Federal Emergency Support Team). So, he was suggesting that Secretary Clinton, should have dropped everything she was doing and send in an unarmed team of specialists. For what? To be killed and add to the body count?
Weather is Worsening
… … …
The weather is {worsening} worse-ing
in America as well.
We’re now rehearsing
for a worsening hell.
Mother Nature is cursing
the land where we dwell.
Our luck is reversing;
for Us tolls the bell.
… … …
The climate-change deniers
are Sanity’s defiers.
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Fast-forward Thom’s “Rumble” segments
… … ….
Hooray,
we say:
Upon re-playings
we can speed through
the Rightists’ re-sayings
which rehearse the poo
from Rightist entrails
in their viral emails.
Coda:
The point being made in this rhyme
is that the “Rumble” wastes our time.
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Both right answers actually, they just keep this Kangaroo Court going hoping to get different results and find something.
The answer to those questions is well known: Bush was an active participant in the 9/11 attacks, along with most of the Republicans in DC at that time.
No need to spend millions of dollars to answer those questions; the real question is why he and others haven't been prosecuted for their participation?
Hillary once said in to an interviewer when confronted with her lies about
being under fire in Bosnia,
"Grow Up".
When dealing with a person like that, every thing said is suspect.
If Bernie does not pull off an upset, then will vote for a straight
talking Trump.
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And exactly WHY wasn't George W. Bush put through this after 9/11? The people want to know the reason why he ignored 6 CIA warnings that Bin Laden was determined to strike in the USA using hijacked airliners as missiles. The people want to know why he let NORAD stand down after receiving the bullitins. The people want to know why he ordered the Bin Laden family to be flown out of the US the following day. I wouldn't mind spending a fortune to answer those blaring questions.
What difference does it make?
Not quite right Thom.
We did learn that Hillary told her daughter, the president of Egypt and one other person something completely different than what she and Obama told the Americanpeople. I can think of a rational excuse for telling the American people something different at the time that could now be told. Unfortunately I didn't hear it.
She's not telling the truth and everybody knows it although everybody won't admit it. I certainly agree with her much more than any republican (except Trump on immigration) and I know that lying is part of the job description for politicians but she won't get my vote. I'm so disgusted with all of them that this will probably be the first election since my first when I voted for McGovern that I stay home.
Over 330 million people in the country and this is the crap were left with. Pathetic.
God help you!
Given in the kindest way
America is a rabid cultural influence
Of which it should look at it self in shame
Thom,
We have learned a lot we have learned in the comments section here alone that the GOP will not see things as they truly are. They will read Dredge and watch Fox and send out there numerous trolls to spread the propaganda around. Thus the majority of GOP will still vote for their members. You cannot exspect resonable actions from a party that thrives upon irrational fears to insight their voters.
I wonder how long it will take before the rest of American voters realize that the GOP party and their voting members will not change for they cannot for they are too afraid to even try to think about the facts.
By the way the world knows how bad the GOP are in this country are for they now say "TEXAS" instead of saying CRAZY. Yet the GOP will continue .
Not everything should rise to the level of the Secretary. She's not the person ordering deployment of security personnel; that needs to be handled by experts in that field. And considering the security staff is normally Marines, they wouldn't technically be under the command of the State Department.