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bunnies

(15,859 posts)
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 03:27 PM Oct 2015

House Democrats Will Stay On Benghazi Committee


WASHINGTON -- House Democrats will remain on the GOP's Benghazi committee, even though they think it's sham, a senior Democratic aide told The Huffington Post.

"During a meeting with Leader Pelosi, Democratic Members of the Select Committee on Benghazi made the decision to remain as participants of the panel for now," said the aide.

There had been talk of Democrats ditching the panel in protest of what they say is chairman Trey Gowdy's goal: to tank Hillary Clinton's poll numbers in the 2016 presidential race. Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican, maintains he is leading a legitimate investigation into the 2012 attack at a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, which took place when Clinton was secretary of state.

Democrats' decision to stay on the committee to push back on Republicans' efforts comes a day after the panel grilled Clinton for 11 hours and produced little new information. Gowdy himself couldn't point to anything new that he learned from her testimony.


more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/house-democrats-benghazi-committee_5616da01e4b0082030a1c975

Enough of this fucking shit already!!!
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BillZBubb

(10,650 posts)
6. Why didn't the Democrats on the committee use their time to mock the Repugs?
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 04:23 PM
Oct 2015

Each Democrat should have taken the questions asked by on of the republicans and mockingly asked them of Hillary with a mocking twist.

How could they not have done that? Mocking that line of questions from the cretin woman from Alabama (why was I not surprised?) would have been sound bite gold.

Bucky

(53,795 posts)
9. The congressmen who reported on the types of questions asked of Blumenthal did it perfectly
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 04:48 PM
Oct 2015

As did Rep. Cummins, with his heated exchange demanding that all testimony be put on the record.

spanone

(135,632 posts)
10. republicans NEVER quit. they double/triple down. rabid dogs.
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 04:51 PM
Oct 2015

if they had any sense of decency they would disappear this committee without a word.....

but if they had any sense of decency.....

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