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Related: About this forumPay Us Back: Republicans Owe Taxpayers $4.5 Million Dollars for Phony Benghazi Probe
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/09/30/republicans-owe-american-taxpayers-4-5-million-dollars-phony-benghazi-probes.html
Pay Us Back: Republicans Owe Taxpayers $4.5 Million Dollars for Phony Benghazi Probe
By: Sarah Jones more from Sarah Jones
Wednesday, September 30th, 2015, 3:24 pm
Republicans have been going on for years, well, actually only since a Democrat took over the White House, about deficits. The deficit, they scream hysterically, will kill our children! Therefore, we need to stop feeding the children in poverty today, as well as taking money from senior citizens and our veterans. We just cant afford these things, they tell us. We must be responsible.
But then last night Speaker-in-Hopes House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) spilled the Benghazi beans on Fox News as he was desperately attempting to do what poor, put-upon Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has been doing for years calming the crazies on Fox News while selling total baloney to the public. McCarthy hasnt Boehners presence or control, so when pushed about what he has done for conservatives, McCarthy proudly preened on about the fake Benghazi investigations being a political tool to steal the White House from Hillary Clinton in 2016.
McCarthy admitted that the Benghazi committee helped erode Clintons unbeatable aura. Huh.
Its not as if we didnt know this was the agenda, weve been writing this for years here at Politicus. And just yesterday we discussed the outrageous fact that the Benghazi probe has gone on longer than the Watergate probe.
But the party that sells itself as fiscally responsible, in spite of their claim that deficits dont matter when they were in charge, would definitely want to reimburse taxpayers the $4.5 million they have spent on lowering former Sec. of State Hillary Clintons poll numbers and manufacturing sound bites for free campaign ads against her, which they will all use since Republicans always have to run against a person since they cant run on their own ideas.
We know they will never pay the taxpayers back, but it makes their justification for austerity transparent as the attempt to inflict their ideology without debate that it is................
No, first on the list would be unnecessary spending, and campaign ads for Republicans are unnecessary spending. Not only is this an abuse of power that would have to be investigated by Republicans since theyre the majority (and we all know Republicans dont hold themselves accountable so thats not going to happen, unlike the weak-willed Democrats who would have already tossed themselves out of office), but its a total waste of money because its not going to work. .....................
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Pay Us Back: Republicans Owe Taxpayers $4.5 Million Dollars for Phony Benghazi Probe (Original Post)
riversedge
Oct 2015
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(22,651 posts)1. they should pay us back, 4.5 million is nothing to all the republican tax-free political "charities"
Those republican "charities" spent millions to send all their congress people on vacation to Israel and bringing in Israels RW hero to mock Americans in his speech to congress.
Quit squandering Americans Federal money you republican leeches!! pay "the people" back!