Yeah, and they love their Obama phones too, don’t they Mittens? Via.
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See how many blatant lies McCranky tells in two minutes. Don’t hurt yourself. Via.
How may times can they resuscitate the horse? We all know who “multiple Republican senators” are. After thinking on this for a bit, it seems like the Unholy Trinity are just making a kerfluffle to keep the bullshit up. Hillary’s people already said she was going to testify, so this is just grandstanding for no reason.
Republican senators will refuse to confirm Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., as Secretary of State until the nation’s current top diplomat, Hillary Clinton, testifies about her handling of the Benghazi terrorist attack.
“The Senate is expected to take up Kerry’s nomination in early January, but multiple Republican senators have already said they won’t agree to a vote on Kerry’s nomination until Clinton testifies about the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi,” The Cable’s Josh Rogin notes.
Clinton backed out of testifying at a congressional hearing last week after fainting and suffering a concussion. She was the first cabinet-level official to acknowledge that terrorists played a role in the assault on the U.S. mission in Benghazi.
Doyle McManus has an op-ed in today’s L.A. Times about Susan Rice being targeted by Republicans until she felt she was becoming a distraction and withdrew her name from consideration to be the next Secretary of State. She didn’t want time and energy to be spent on a bitter confirmation battle at the expense of other priorities on the president’s agenda, like immigration reform.
He goes on in some detail about John McCain’s role, the Benghazi excuse, and more, but this is the part that caught my eye:
A Republican Senate aide spelled out the situation for me more clearly, on condition he not be identified. “Voting for higher taxes is a tough vote,” he said. “Opposing Susan Rice is a way to score points, even though it’s a sideshow.”
And there you have it. A moment of truth and repugnance all rolled into one big, shameless, politicizing, obstructionist Ball of GOP.
NBC’s Brian Williams is reporting that Susan Rice wrote a letter to the president asking that her name be withdrawn and is saddened by the politicization of her possible nomination as Secretary of State.
President Obama said he would have withdrawn her name sooner, but did not want to back down in the face of all the political attacks. (If I heard that correctly, please let me know if not)
UPDATE: (more at the link)
“If nominated, I am now convinced that the confirmation process would be lengthy, disruptive and costly – to you and to our most pressing national and international priorities,” Rice wrote in a letter to President Obama, saying she’s saddened by the partisan politics surrounding her prospects.
“That trade-off is simply not worth it to our country…Therefore, I respectfully request that you no longer consider my candidacy at this time,” she wrote in the letter obtained by NBC News. [...]
“The position of secretary of state should never be politicized,” she wrote, adding, “I’m saddened that we have reached this point, even before you have decided whom to nominate. We cannot afford such an irresponsible distraction from the most pressing issues facing the American people.”
Brian Williams will have an exclusive interview with Rice on tonight’s “Rock Center With Brian Williams” at 10p/9c.
Ooooh, that’s some lemon sucking going on there. It’s sad that PBO has to treat Fox that way, ut they damn well deserve it because they just don’t even pretend any more.
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Your Daily Dose of BuzzFlash at Truthout, via my pal Mark Karlin:
To put it quite simply, if Obama backs down from appointing Rice due to the Republican Benghazi brigade, conventional wisdom has it that he is likely to appoint John Kerry to become Secretary of State. If that were to be the case, Kerry’s seat would become vacant. [...]
Enter Republican Scott Brown [...]
As BuzzFlash at Truthout reader Emiliano de la Fuente e-mailed us today: “If the GOP is successful in squashing the idea of Susan Rice for Secretary of State and the President nominates John Kerry, it will immediately eliminate a Democratic senator and will give Scott Brown a chance to wiggle into position… Since he just ran in 2012, his name will be fresh in many voters’ minds.”
In modern campaigns, political brand names are significant and Brown is one of those guys who even Democratic pundits and politicians in DC like to call in their village way “a very likeable person.”
It may be Massachusetts, and this theory may be a stretch, but remember that Brown was elected to the Senate once already – and remember that not too long ago Massachusetts elected Mitt Romney as governor.
And remember that the Republicans are indicating that they would be prone to give Kerry a relatively easy confirmation hearing in the Senate. That’s a scenario that will test Obama’s mettle and how many chits he wants to call in for Rice at a time he is trying to proceed with budget negotiations.
Please read the whole post here. And Mark has added this post: Colin Powell’s Fabricated UN Iraq War Speech Was Fine With “Bomb, Bomb” McCain and Graham
And just for good measure, this L.A. Times letter from the editor, because our voices matter:
Re “Senators unswayed by talks with Rice,” Nov. 28
Isn’t there just one donkey willing to call out the elephant in the room when Republicans insist on ranting on and on about Benghazi? Simply put: Which party was responsible for the hundreds of millions of dollars withheld for embassy security improvements over the last few years, adversely affecting the work and safety of our diplomats abroad?
Perhaps the questions about U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice’s statements after the Benghazi attack should be aimed at Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and his Republican colleagues in Congress who refused to properly fund embassy construction and security.
Dean James Loomos
Venice
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