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pnwmom

(108,990 posts)
Fri May 10, 2013, 04:30 PM May 2013

Top Republican finally admits to Iran-Contra cover-up,

and wants to impeach.

Impeach Obama, that is

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/inhofe-suggests-obama-may-be-impeached-over-benghazi

“Of all the great cover-ups in history — the Pentagon papers, the Iran-Contra, Watergate and all the rest of them — this … is going to go down as the most serious, the most egregious cover-up in American history,” Inhofe said during an appearance on The Rusty Humphries Show.

Inhofe then said he's pleased that Benghazi has returned to the public consciousness.

“People may be starting to use the I-word before too long,” Inhofe later said.

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byeya

(2,842 posts)
1. I seem to recall at the Iran Contra Congressional hearing Rep Brooks of Texas(D) alluded to
Fri May 10, 2013, 04:37 PM
May 2013

the administrations plans for mass incarcerations of demonstrators and was quickly shut down by both the Democrats and Republicans. I guess there was a gentlemans agreement to get some of the truth out but not all of it.

denverbill

(11,489 posts)
2. Doesn't there have to be a crime to be a cover-up?
Fri May 10, 2013, 04:44 PM
May 2013

Like illegally arming the Contras or breaking into a psychiatrist's office?

What's the 'crime' here?

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,429 posts)
7. That's what I'd like to know too!
Fri May 10, 2013, 05:45 PM
May 2013

That's what maddening about this whole Benghazi thing, not so much that Republicans are (as usual) being a**holes and politicizing a terrorist attack that killed 4 Americans but that they are darkly hinting and insinuating about all kinds of things that *might* have happened but not being clear exactly WHAT the crime(s) is and why, if there is an ongoing cover-up, they know about it but nobody else does. IMHO they need to come out and explain to the rest of us like we're 4-year olds exactly what sort of crime(s) were committed by the Obama Administration and what, how, and why they are covering up. I just don't get it.

dsc

(52,166 posts)
8. actually no
Fri May 10, 2013, 06:52 PM
May 2013

Martha Stewart was imprisoned for lying to the FBI about conduct which wasn't itself a crime.

dsc

(52,166 posts)
11. no she was imprisoned for lying to the FBI
Sat May 11, 2013, 08:40 AM
May 2013

during the investigation. They never did prove insider trading.

HeiressofBickworth

(2,682 posts)
9. According to Republicans
Fri May 10, 2013, 07:09 PM
May 2013

the real crime is that there is a black man in the White House. They will NEVER get over that and will continue until his second term runs out to try to find a way to force him out. They are THAT full of hate.

chknltl

(10,558 posts)
3. Ok, I'll use the 'i' word but to be fair I will hardly be the first.....
Fri May 10, 2013, 04:48 PM
May 2013

.... to call Inhoffe an 'Idiot'. If I ever got the chance I'd like to stand toe to toe with him, look him squarely in the eye then rapidly say Beatlejuice Beatlejuice Beatlejuice. (Probably be as effective as anything else I might say to him.)

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
4. if I were Obama, there'd be a good chance I'd just pack up and slip out one night
Fri May 10, 2013, 04:49 PM
May 2013

take the wife and family back to Hawaii and open a shaved ice cart near a beach somewhere.

These assholes on the reich are just too much

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