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Republican Benghazi-gasms appear to be shriveling under the sunshine of transparency.
Wednesday evening, Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA), Chairman of the House Committee on Armed Services, decided to release the transcripts of interviews of nine military personnel conducted between January and April of this year regarding the attacks in Benghazi. McKeon has been saying for a while now that hes satisfied with the militarys response to the Benghazi attack, but it seems no one in his party is listening to his attempt to keep them from attacking our servicemembers.
Darrell Issa (R-CA) earned himself Four Pinocchios for claiming that Secretary Hillary Clinton ordered former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to stand down during the Benghazi attacks and now Democrats are demanding an apology.
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/07/09/there-stand-order-democrats-bust-republicans-completely-baseless-benghazi-conspiracy.html
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Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Just kidding, thanks for the report. This is something which was explained by the military and the possibility of the military responding quickly was not a part of the solution, Issa had to know this if many of our citizens know he was just running a game, fooling those who wanted to produce an issue against SOS Clinton. Oh, BTW, the amount of money spent on his investigation needs to come out of his butt or the GOP who was pushing for an impossible result of the investigation.
Snarkoleptic
(5,997 posts)Also, the front-line wingnuts will not soon drop this meme as they have too much invested in it to admit they were wrong.
It's a Rovian thing-
From the article Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html?_r=3&ex=1255665600&en=890a96189e162076&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Snarkoleptic
(5,997 posts)Of course, the RW paymasters don't want critical thinking, they want a populace that is just smart enough to get their bidding done without asking questions.
This was included in the education section of the 2012 Texas RepubliClown platform-
"Knowledge-Based Education We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs..."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/texas-gop-rejects-critical-thinking-skills-really/2012/07/08/gJQAHNpFXW_blog.html
George Carlin crystallized it quite well here-
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Last edited Sun Jul 13, 2014, 08:52 PM - Edit history (1)
The analysis is good, but some use it as an excuse to give up. A lot of people can't afford to do that, never did. Life is not a series of skits and one-liners that replace reality and allow us to stand back safely and laugh, because life demands the best we can do.
But yeah, societies have always been organized into rigid hierarchies that seek to force people into a niche that is less than beneficial, just to survive.
There are a lot of willing peons, as I call the less well off the RepubliClowns. They either have not sought or been given the opportunity to lift themselves up and hate it, So they satisfy themselves by keeping busy putting others down.
That they may have been victims at the start of the process, doesn't mean they're not perpetrators now. That's where they are the most dangerous.
They want revenge on a lot of people for their lives, or what they thoughttheir lives should have been. They never snap at the hand they think is feeding them but will savage everyone else they can.
Thus they're doomed and will take us with them, I fear.
Thanks for you good posts to me here.
Snarkoleptic
(5,997 posts)Some of his later HBO specials seemed to indicate he was in a really bad place.
I agree with your analysis above!
calimary
(81,240 posts)THIS is how they operate, how their mindset works, where their priorities are, and the cradle - indeed, the incubator - of their agenda.
They're "history's actors" alright. Actors deal in fiction. Actors are the leading lights and purveyors of make-believe. And this ain't no reality show.
WinstonSmith4740
(3,056 posts)I've been looking for that aide's "we create our own reality" speech for a while. My RW friends don't believe it ever happened, 'cause y'know, it was never on Fox.
Got the whole article in my files now. Thanks!
Snarkoleptic
(5,997 posts)I also recommend reading this...
WinstonSmith4740
(3,056 posts)Looks interesting. On my way to amazon now.
joshdawg
(2,648 posts)Democrats can demand all they want, they will never get an apology from republicans. Apparently, republicans can do anything they want, say anything they want without any fear of the truth being thrown at them. They never apologize for anything they do or say and Issa is one of the ringleaders of that way of "thinking."
In other words, IOKIYAR.
Vote Democratic!
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)How much have all these investigations cost taxpayers so far? Who voted ISSA into office, and are they upset that he has wasted time and $$$ on this, instead of doing his job? Imagine the shape people COULD be in if the gop invested all that effort into problems, such as unemployment benefits, ending wars, fixing infrastructure? It is either dig, dig, dig trying to find the President did something wrong, or forming ANOTHER committee to investigate something that has already been shown to be NOTHING. I noticed that when the President flew into Dallas, Dubya did not make a courtesy visit to the airport. As in "Where's Waldo" the democratic party should be asking "Where's Georgie?" Is he confined somewhere for some reason?
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)He's in an outpatient mental health treatment plan doing his art therapy.
marble falls
(57,081 posts)marble falls
(57,081 posts)rtracey
(2,062 posts)This is huge, this needs to be brought out at every town hall meeting in every state of this country. DNC and all should be jamming this down every media outlets throat. Every Democrat that is a true democrat, progressive, liberal, or even care about anything should be facebooking this, screaming this, posting and messaging this to everyone they know. And after this is done, then we need to scream and do the same thing about the f'd up waste of tax payer money this has become, and what it will be.....VOTE DEM
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Along with how Dr. Susan Rice was correct, PBO caught the SOB who planned the attack, and how every criticism from the GOP extremists was a LIE.
mountain grammy
(26,620 posts)eShirl
(18,491 posts)Rozlee
(2,529 posts)At least, that's the most nominal response. Their ideas will run the spectrum of mind control of our military personnel to every other nutty conspiracy theory out there. Benghazi is a cult belief in the GOP now. Just like 2 out of 3 Republicans still believe Saddam had WMD's before the Iraq War, no transcripts or evidence to the contrary will make them believe otherwise. The truth doesn't phase cultists. They don't live in the real world.
progressoid
(49,988 posts)These people live in a different reality.
Botany
(70,504 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Republican has not joined the propaganda hen house.
Fla Dem
(23,663 posts)LoisB
(7,203 posts)String Fiesta
(13 posts)Nothing anywhere else I've found.
LondonReign2
(5,213 posts)To right-wingers, facts absolutely do not matter. They believe what they believe, no matter what the actual evidence shows. Global warming, the Laffer curve, Benghazi...the list is endless.
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DesertDiamond
(1,616 posts)Cha
(297,196 posts)JEFF9K
(1,935 posts)All Republican politicians and pundits should be fitted for them.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)Once a stupid idea starts ricocheting around the RW Alternative Information Reality, there is no dislodging it.