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Proof that Benghazi is a Republican Witch Hunt (photo) (Original Post) Galraedia May 2013 OP
This man hits every button on my creep-o-meter. PDJane May 2013 #1
I'm sorry, this individual is just PATHETIC. calimary May 2013 #3
Well said! narnian60 May 2013 #8
I work with a guy... Vestigial_Sister May 2013 #13
Meme and Tweets are not much to go on. Here's a bit of substance: Buzz Clik May 2013 #2
And what was his stand on State Department requests for more money for embassy security? calimary May 2013 #4
Perhaps he needs to be subject to the "I word". Buzz Clik May 2013 #5
As we call it in my business: riqster May 2013 #6
i think he will be alot happier when he comes out of the closet... CarrieLynne May 2013 #7
And GOPers are even fundraising Iliyah May 2013 #9
Well, to be fair lolly May 2013 #10
The press is already getting burned out. At least the part that isn't Faux Spews. Rozlee May 2013 #17
That is the truth. xxqqqzme May 2013 #19
Must have been trained by Cheney. Cracklin Charlie May 2013 #11
He thinks he's a prosecutor opening to a jury. marble falls May 2013 #12
Sociopath. GeorgeGist May 2013 #14
There's the head witch right there.Yeah, the goprickfaces said Hillary was faking her illness, Cha May 2013 #15
What bothers me about Benghazi is they're not asking the right questions. Initech May 2013 #16
SNL's opening skit just nailed it on the Benghazi hearings. SunSeeker May 2013 #18
Proof that they are scared of Hillary IndicaDogwalk May 2013 #20
Exactly right peace frog May 2013 #21
He should have added . . . another_liberal May 2013 #22
The saddest part of all Half-Century Man May 2013 #23
Witch-hunting is what they do DeeDeeNY May 2013 #24
...with dubious success and to much derision peace frog May 2013 #25
This is good info.... midnight May 2013 #29
Take careful notice here... peace13 May 2013 #26
Good grief.....one tiny but powerful woman....scares the shit out of these weasels.... Gin May 2013 #27
This how dogmatic conservatism operates- GETPLANING May 2013 #28
More proof that Benghazi is a witch, and a stupid one at that.... Galraedia May 2013 #30
Dick Cheney on Benghazi: "I hope they tried to cover it up by constructing a false story" Galraedia May 2013 #31

PDJane

(10,103 posts)
1. This man hits every button on my creep-o-meter.
Sat May 11, 2013, 11:57 AM
May 2013

Is it mean and judgemental of me to say that coming out of the closet might be the thing to sweeten his temper?

calimary

(81,320 posts)
3. I'm sorry, this individual is just PATHETIC.
Sat May 11, 2013, 12:13 PM
May 2013

I always find it kind of hilarious to watch the news clips. There's john mccain... walking toward more podiums with microphones to blah-blah-blah. And there's his little sniveling shadow, his little puppy dog, lindsey graham... urgently following along trying to make sure he gets into the shot for the cable news shows, so he's seen CLOSE BEHIND mccain and therefore gaining implied political ground by being seen in the same shot...
The really pathetic part comes after that. Little sycophantic tag-along lindsey graham even has HIS OWN even LITTLER sycophantic tag-along puppy dog shadow these days! Who reliably appears, urgently following along trying to make sure SHE gets into the same shot for the cable news shows, so SHE is seen close behind both lindsey and john mccain - little kelly ayotte. It's like watching a four-year-old with a pull toy. And the pull toy has a pull toy. The shadow has a shadow. The Me-Too has a Me-Too.

P-A-T-H-E-T-I-C!!!!!

And on top of that, they're too pathetic even to be ashamed of themselves!!!

Vestigial_Sister

(182 posts)
13. I work with a guy...
Sat May 11, 2013, 02:55 PM
May 2013

who could be this asshat's twin, in form and fashion. He's one of these creepy people that need to be right up in your face when the are talking to you, as though they want to slip you the tongue.

I get FBS (full body shivers) anytime I see either of them...

 

Buzz Clik

(38,437 posts)
2. Meme and Tweets are not much to go on. Here's a bit of substance:
Sat May 11, 2013, 12:12 PM
May 2013
I think the dam is about to break on Benghazi. We're going to find a system failure before, during, and after the attacks.

We're going to find political manipulation seven weeks before an election. We're going to find people asleep at the switch when it comes to the State Department, including Hillary Clinton.

The bond that has been broken between those who serve us in harms way and the government they serve is huge — and to me every bit as damaging as Watergate.

https://www.facebook.com/USSenatorLindseyGraham


This is a posting on his Facebook page, which has more deniability than words he actually spoke. But, it is HIS page and either he or someone he has given authority has attributed the comments to him.

This is beneath a witch hunt -- this is part of an orchestrated effort to find an excuse to smear the President and Hillary Clinton, regardless of the jusfication or lack of justification.

calimary

(81,320 posts)
4. And what was his stand on State Department requests for more money for embassy security?
Sat May 11, 2013, 12:16 PM
May 2013

What was he in those republi-CON caucus meetings or fishy little CONservative closed-door cabals with his pals in the House of Reps? Did he talk up embassy security with any of them in the Capitol Hill dining rooms or hallways or hang-outs?

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
9. And GOPers are even fundraising
Sat May 11, 2013, 01:11 PM
May 2013

off the murdered victims. This proves that its all politicial. These fucks are soulless.

lolly

(3,248 posts)
10. Well, to be fair
Sat May 11, 2013, 01:58 PM
May 2013

These tactics worked perfectly for the Republicans all through the Clinton years.

There was absolutely nothing to the whole Whitewater "scandal," and one official inquiry after another concluded that there was nothing to it, but they kept promising they WOULD find something, so the press followed along giddily and they kept getting more and more funding to finance more investigations, with a result that the average American today is still vaguely sure that the Clintons did something illegal there and somehow managed to cover it up.

When an action is rewarded, it will get repeated. This is already getting rewarded with press coverage.

Rozlee

(2,529 posts)
17. The press is already getting burned out. At least the part that isn't Faux Spews.
Sun May 12, 2013, 02:07 AM
May 2013

The public really isn't paying much attention. They'll perk up if someone gets a blow job.

xxqqqzme

(14,887 posts)
19. That is the truth.
Sun May 12, 2013, 05:07 AM
May 2013

My Clinton hating grandmother ended up on all the fundraising mailing lists.. You would not believe some of the distorted crap mailed to her. It got so anyone going down to check her mail box, just stood by the waste paper bin and left half her mail there. If she saw it, she would send them money.

Cha

(297,314 posts)
15. There's the head witch right there.Yeah, the goprickfaces said Hillary was faking her illness,
Sat May 11, 2013, 06:08 PM
May 2013

too.. how'd that shit work out for them?

thanks Galraedia

Initech

(100,080 posts)
16. What bothers me about Benghazi is they're not asking the right questions.
Sun May 12, 2013, 01:28 AM
May 2013

Instead they're chasing an invisible bogeyman that's the result of a completely fabricated conspiracy theory.

The questions they should be asking:

1. Who made the film "The Innocence Of Muslims"?

2. Who leaked it to the Egyptian media, and how was it timed to provoke such an attack?

3. Did the people who made "The Innocence Of Muslims" have an agenda against President Obama?

These are the things I want to know about Benghazi, not some bullshit fabricated conspiracy.

SunSeeker

(51,571 posts)
18. SNL's opening skit just nailed it on the Benghazi hearings.
Sun May 12, 2013, 04:14 AM
May 2013

The skit lampooned Issa and company for going on a witch hunt that no one outside the Faux News universe cares anything about.

IndicaDogwalk

(5 posts)
20. Proof that they are scared of Hillary
Sun May 12, 2013, 05:39 AM
May 2013

Lindsey Graham is such a closet case (seriously, he is), that I can't trust anything he says. This witch hunt, however, proves two things to me: 1) The Republicans are very scared of Hillary - and - 2) They have no clear front runner who is strong enough to run against her, so they are starting now with their 2016 attack on Hillary.



Also: Gutless cowardly closet cases like Lindsey Graham NEED to be outed. I can't wait until it happens to him.

peace frog

(5,609 posts)
21. Exactly right
Sun May 12, 2013, 07:26 AM
May 2013

This is all about 2016. Even a skinny Chris Christie can't outshine her, and the rest of the GOPer contenders are either yawn-worthy or crazy-ridiculous. They are terrified of her and rightly so.

 

another_liberal

(8,821 posts)
22. He should have added . . .
Sun May 12, 2013, 07:53 AM
May 2013

"We're going to work this scandal like a borrowed mule to win a majority in the Senate. We're going use the same trumped-up nonsense to begin impeachment proceedings against President Obama next January. We're going to drive that black Communist out of the White House."

The Senator is not, however, clairvoyant at all. He is a merely a mean-spirited little cracker who is pissed his disgustingly corrupt political party failed to fix the last two Presidential elections (State-wide elections in South Carolina, as we all know, are much easier to steal).

Half-Century Man

(5,279 posts)
23. The saddest part of all
Sun May 12, 2013, 08:18 AM
May 2013

I think He actually believes He is saving us.
Compare it to a pampered prince who after a moderately difficult journey to rescue the princess, finds her living quite well with the dragon. He stands and shouts "But It's a DRAGON" over and over to no avail. The princess continues to co-habituate with the dragon. Will she be eaten at some point or not, even the prince is unsure. And that scares the hell out of him.
Benghazi is republicanese for dragon.

 

peace13

(11,076 posts)
26. Take careful notice here...
Sun May 12, 2013, 10:22 AM
May 2013

...The rethugs used 911 for political gain. Over and over, to this day, they remind the American people. Through extreme coincidence OBL made tapes to scare American voters. The Rethugs are the masters of manipulation to create election intimidation.


Enter Benghazi. After refusing to fund security for our people in Benghazi the Rethugs use the attack to political gain. Lindsay even sights how a cover up impacted the election. When his lips are moving he is granting a tell. What he meant to say was that Benghazi happened and we the Rethugs tried to use it to impact the election. Projection my friends, clear and simple. These folks are off their rockers nuts!

GETPLANING

(846 posts)
28. This how dogmatic conservatism operates-
Sun May 12, 2013, 10:40 AM
May 2013

Start with a conclusion, then search for "facts" that support that conclusion. Any contradictory facts are discarded. This applies to every category of conservative dogma, ffom climate science to economics to the definition of fascism.

Real investigation begins with gathering all the facts, then following them to a rational conclusion. Sometimes that conclusion is exactly what you had supposed, sometimes it isn't.

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