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House Benghazi Committee continues to spend millions going after Hillary Clintonby Laura Clawson at the Daily Kos
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/15/1393408/-House-Benghazi-Committee-continues-to-spend-millions-going-after-Hillary-Clinton
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The House Benghazi Committee's investigation rolls on, having spent $3.5 million and counting. Up next, a secret grilling of former Bill Clinton aide and longtime Bill-and-Hillary friend Sidney Blumenthal. Blumenthal sent then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a series of emails about Libya, and House Republicans are seeking to make this look like one of the root causes of the deaths at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
Republicans want to know how the practice started, if it was really unsolicited, Blumenthals intelligence sourcing, if Clinton ever responded to or acted on his advice and whether the handful of emails they already have comprise the entire scope of Clinton and Blumenthals correspondence on the matter.
Translation: Republicans want to imply that Blumenthal had information he shouldn't have had, that Blumenthal's information led Clinton to make decisions that endangered American diplomats, and that this was all done over email, emails Clinton has refused to turn over. That last means that not only do Republicans think Clinton and Blumenthal were engaged in a nefarious plot, but that they were so incompetent they did it over email. Jeez, guys, everyone knows you don't put big secrets in email!
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djean111
(14,255 posts)Talks about the GOP Congress not working with a Dem president - I do believe that Bernie has better working relationships in Congress than Hillary does.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)If they can't find scandalous dirt on Bernie, they'll make it up.
That is what they do & they don't give a crap how they have to spin it nor who it damages.
RW moffia plays by their own rules, & Bernie or any Dem is a figurehead barely worth their notice.
djean111
(14,255 posts)Hillary would not have an easier time. That's what I am saying.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)1) A Democrat should be punished because of the Republican's frivolous nature? Maybe Obama should resign right now because they might work with Biden better.
2) You are utterly clueless if you think teabag Republicans have any respect for Bernie. To them, he is lower than whale shit being a Socialist.
djean111
(14,255 posts)that is that. I just think it ridiculous that some here are almost asking why not just have Bernie drop out now, because Congress won't work with a Dem. Or - best to switch from Hillary to Bernie now, because Congress won't work with a Dem. Well, isn't Hillary a Dem?????? Why would they work any better with Hillary? I don't think either candidate has the edge with Congress, unless one of them agrees with the GOP anyway. My concern is that I am afraid of just what she will be triangulating and compromising on.
Oh, and not agreeing with you is not "clueless", it is just not agreeing with you on something that is complete conjecture on your part.
Exilednight
(9,359 posts)Ridiculous amounts of cash fighting against attack after attack after attack.
It's the Bin Laden war plan: bankrupt your opponent while spending pennies on the dollar of your own cash.
spanone
(135,960 posts)fuck them one and all
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)continue to double down. If they had to spend their own money maybe they would stop..what a waste.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)So far, every scandal involving Hillary has been debunked. If they can keep Ben Gawzi alive for a while longer, they think this will derail her candidacy. It won't but they have to try.
applegrove
(118,973 posts)Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)These guys live in their own bubble wasting money and she'll be fine.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)will be watching Republican heads explode as they see that NO ONE CARES about their faux so-called scandal, so much so that she won the whole damn thing.
And they'll go after any Democratic president to a ridiculous degree. That's what they do.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)House is a big challange for that but the Senate is possible.
Its a start anyway.
madokie
(51,076 posts)if there was a wrong done by anyone it wasn't Hillary that did it. More like their own cutting funding that perpetrated this. sorry fucks, sorry for the language there.
I'll take one Hillary over the whole house full of CONs
spanone
(135,960 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)In a perfect world the asshats known formerly as the GOP would be made to pay back ever penny wasted and stolen from the taxpayers for this partisan witch hunt.
I do hope this reminds the gentle left wing of the left wing of the Democraric Party to save their villianization for the folks in the enemy camp. The enemy camp is over there....
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)RW dominance of legislative power needs to be stopped.