House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa, who is heading the congressional investigation against the administration, is demonstrating the official letter from the Publisher Clearing House sweepstakes as a proof that he may have already won.
Since September 11, 2012 attack on American consulate in Benghazi in which four Americans have died, the Republican party had made it their number one priority to investigate the attack in Libya and the suspected conspiracy cover-up by the Obama administration. Although, while preoccupied with Benghazi, the Republican still manage find the time to hold occasional votes to repeal Obamacare. The investigation seemed to have found the second wind when several whistle-blowers from the State Department agreed to testify last week, but even these new witnesses haven’t added any new incriminating evidence against the Obama administration. Essentially, their testimony sounded less like whistle-blowing and more like “pfffft”. Still, the Benghazi investigation shows no signs of slowing down, and here are 10 reasons why it’s still going on.
1) The Republicans hope that somewhere among the Benghazi e-mails, there is an e-mail from the president where Barack Obama is claiming to be an expert on Africa and attached his Kenyan birth certificate as proof.
2) Since the investigators have found no actual evidence of a conspiracy, to them it looks as a clear sign of a successful cover-up.
3) The ringleader of the investigation, Congressman Darrell Issa spent too much time in court as a defendant, and always dreamed of prosecuting somebody else.
4) By trying to implicate Hillary Clinton and State department in the scandal, the Republicans are hoping to hurt Hillary Clinton’s chances in 2016 presidential election, and Chelsea Clinton’s chances in 2040.
5) The Republicans are trying to ensure that this outrage* will never happen again. (* – Democratic presidency)
6) The investigators have revealed locations of CIA bases during the investigation, so their real plan is to expose as many of covert overseas CIA’s facilities if possible, cripple CIA’s operations abroad, enable more terrorist acts against the Americans, and then blame it all on Obama.
7) They are trying to prove that Republicans are merely looking for the truth, unlike those sleazy gun control advocates who would politicize the deaths of Americans for their own political gain. And the Republicans won’t stop until they find the truth they like.
9) Doing something else may end up creating jobs and help the Democrats.
10) The Republican Party is attempting to prevent Barack Obama’s re-election in 2012. (Remember, the polls showing him as the winner of the election are still skewed and always will be).
Since the whole Benghazi affair is one giant cover up involving everyone in the Obama administration and anyone who ever voted for Democrats, I will do my part by covering up the reason number 8.
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I see what you did there. Very clever piece.
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Oh no, you saw that!? I need to improve my cover-up skills…
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I suspect your #4 is actually spot on.
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I think Chelsea has to be the real target, because Hillary is way too popular.
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Which is probably while they’ll never let up on the poor woman.
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And before Clinton, there was Susan Rice. So it’s kind of a war on women, one woman at a time.
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But that’s okay, because there are binders full of us…
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Love #2
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Thank you. It’s an argument of absolutely flawless logic, so let’s hope the Republicans don’t start using that.
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Hey, it worked with Clinton. They didn’t stop digging until they found something incredibly lame to pin on him. Yay, we caught you lying about getting a bj from an intern. Nevermind what you’ve done for the country otherwise (like balance the budget), let’s impeach you cause “lie about stupid stunt that is frankly only the business of a man and his wife” is much worse than “Lie about why we need to go to war and kill thousands of our people.”
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I am not as kind to Clinton as are you. I didn’t see anything illegal about the Lewinsky bj itself – it is private matter between Bill and Hillary. But if Clinton committed perjury to cover up the affair, that’s definitely a solid reason for impeachment, nevermind whatever other good things he did for the country. Nixon had done some good things too (like ending the US involvement in Vietnam and Clean Water Act), but that didn’t stop his impeachment.
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But he was totally set up for it – I mean, Republicans tapped phones for crying out loud. I’m not saying he’s innocent by any means, but to impeach him for a lie about nothing while Republicans constantly lie under oath about stuff far worse? Weapons of mass destruction? I mean – I just don’t – ugh. Nevermind.
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Whoever set him up should have been criminally tried as well. Whoever lied under oath over worse stuff should be kicked out of their DC offices too. I have a simple mind like that.
But Alice, let’s imagine for a moment that Republicans had impeached Bill Clinton in early 1999. Then Al Gore would have been president for the remainder of Clinton’s term, presiding over two of the best years of economic growth and prosperity in recent history, while more Democrats would have been enraged over Clinton’s treatment by the Republicans. Don’t you think that would have convinced a few more thousands of Floridians vote for Al Gore instead of George Bush in 2000, and turned the 2000 election in Al Gore’s favor?
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But Clinton didn’t committ perjury – he lied. He was not in a court when he lied, which is the only place you can committ perjury. If lying whilst in office is impeachable, then most Presidents should probably have been impeached
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Lying in the office is not impeachable, true, though sometimes I wish it was – but then we’d have to vote for another president by the time a president-elect finishes his inauguration speech.
As far as I understand, Bill Clinton lied under oath (that he did not have sex with Lewinski), and that constitutes perjury. It doesn’t have to happen in a court only, and doesn’t really matter what the lie was about. I don’t know if Senate or House are supposed to consider evidence beyond reasonable doubt, like a real court, but it was about trying to get rid of Clinton, and not about justice anyway.
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Say it Alice!!
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#4 Newsflash for republicans…… Hillary Clinton eats this kind of stuff for breakfast.
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True, but surely Hillary would prefer some cereal for breakfast, rather than this crap.
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Oooops * eats * typo
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Fixed that for you 🙂
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It also distracts from the fact that the deficit is going down — without decimating Social Security OR Medicare. What fun is that?
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Deficit going down will probably be the subject of my next post, and I’ll try to find fun in that.
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most of them are too close to be true. well done indeed.
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Thank you. Why should I have to write jokes, when the reality is as ridiculous as it is?
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Touche. What would we do without reality?
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We would have been living the fantasy. But that stupid reality spoils everything.
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ummmmm… I thought it was to take our minds off the fact that there were like 85 attacks on Embassies and Embassy personnel during the Bush years, and almost no investigations into them…
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The Republicans at the time apparently didn’t realize that Obama was involved in all of those attacks.
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HA!!!
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Reblogged this on The ObamaCrat.Com™ and commented:
Number 11…..The TeaTardedRepubliCANTS are just plain stupid.
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That’a the reason for a lot of things they do 🙂 Thank you for the reblog.
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My pleasure always. You post excellent content.
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Guess what? My reader is working properly again(yeaaaa) ..Just popping in to mark my spot; be back when time permits tonight.
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Finally! So I’ll just mark your spot with an “X” 🙂
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As usual, your logic is spot on. Well done.
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Thank you!
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Well said: “And the Republicans won’t stop until they find the truth they like.”
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Thank you. It’s not their fault that the truth is often so disappointing, or as Colbert said, has a liberal bias.
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The truth leans toward the…left? 😉
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The truth is straight. But the conservatives lean right, hence there’s the disconnect. 🙂
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Republicans were always unhappy that the “Benghazi Scandal” was never taken seriously by anyone as a scandal. So they plan to beat that dead horse until everyone finally gives their faux scandal a little credit.
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Yes, I think they found it egregiously scandalous that people weren’t paying the Benghazi scandal enough attention.
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Have I told you how much I enjoy reading your posts? Well, I do..and X marked my spot. Doesn’t get much better than that.. I love IT. Anyways my faves are from the top to the bottom : #1 . Simply said, classic! #4 fell out laughing lol, lol! Btw I’m hoping she does run in 2016; but thats another topic for another time(and I’ll be blogging it..) # 10..Naw, President Obama won hands down..Had my ear to the ground, alot, something would’ve been funkier than funkier(and corrupt) if numbers hadn’t showed he won. Did you hear something different? Just curious..
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Thank you, once again! I hope Hillary runs in 2016, but I would not be too surprised if she doesn’t – I don’t think she found her time in Washington so enjoyable.
If you saw the reactions in conservative media after the election, there was a LOT of noise that elections were rigged in Obama’s favor. However, all presidential elections are controlled at the state levels, and most swing states were run by Republicans. So if any funny business was going on inside the voting machines, it was most likely the work of the Republicans themselves. The hacker group Anonymous supposedly found something going on and stopped it, but I don’t think there was any official investigation.
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Ahhhh no I didn’t know that. Interesting indeed…I was probably so caught up in excitement after the election I paid no attention to conservative media. IF a “certain” news station was suddenly the only one that existed ; I’d stop watching the news altogether. Hate that station ! And there aren’t many things I hate. Glad I got this scoop from you. I thought I was pretty much in-the-know..See how awesome it is I found your blog? Yay!
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I don’t want to present that information as a fact: I know that Anonymous claimed to have discovered Karl Rove trying to mess with the results and blocked his program. However, they did not present any proof, and no one bothered to investigate. But you know, if the sides were turned and hackers had claimed that Obama tried to steal an election, Fox would have been going on and on about this 24/7.
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Exactly! Without a shadow of a doubt..which is why you’re probably right on target. As usual! Thank the Blog Gods everytime I stop by your page that our paths crossed. Virtual high five ^
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Number 10 for sure!
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That’s probably most likely – they are still trying to vote down Obamacare.
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Number 8 is the true reason! We need to have hearings on why you’re covering up number 8, damn you.
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I will use my constitutional right not to respond to your comment in order not to incriminate myself.
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Oh…if you’re doing the whole constitutional right thing, then you’re probably innocent anyway.
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Very clever post – again!
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Thank you!
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All of them are likely at least partially true, however I suspect the real target is the younger Ms. Clinton.
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I wouldn’t be surprised. She inherited all the genes that cause instinctive antipathy in Republicans.
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Any of these could easily be the truth. Very clever post, loved it!
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Thank you!
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It seems to me that Republicans want to look like they are doing something “good for the country” protesting it from terrorists and things of that nature because that’s the only thing left they have to hold on to, if the republicans want to stay relevant they need to change from the inside out.
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In the Benghazi hearings, they don’t even pretend to care about protecting the country from the terrorists. If they were, they would be asking questions like “how can we learn from this to make sure this doesn’t happen again?”. But no, all they care (and ask) about is who covered up what, when, and preferably how this cover-up involves Obama and Clinton.
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The emergence of a number of whistleblowers who have come forward to refute the claims made by some members of President Barack Obama’s administration relating to the September 11, 2012, attack on an American consulate in Benghazi does not directly implicate the White House in a cover-up. They do, however, demolish the politically-motivated allegations by a slew of commentators on the left who denied that those reporters doggedly investigating the American response to the attack were onto something. Those left-of-center commentators who dismissed the investigation into the Benghazi attack as a right-wing delusion animated by a personal hatred of the president have never looked more vacuous.
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Reblogged this on AMERICAN LIBERAL TIMES and commented:
I found this on “List of X” and I love it because – – to my way of seeing things, it rings so very undeniably true.” (Comment by John at “American Liberal Times.” I love this article and I want to see it get the widest possible exposure.
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Thank you, John!
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