Report Says GOP Aides Are Beginning to Mock House Republicans’ Benghazi Accusations as ‘Crazy’
Source: DeadState
In an interesting report from Roll Call, GOP aides are apparently criticizing House Republicans, slamming their rhetoric in regards to the Obama administrations handling of the attacks in Benghazi last year. The aides are arguing that the Party needs to change its focus to more substantive issues.
According to the report, Republican aides are saying the GOP is getting sidetracked chasing unsubstantiated accusations.
We have got to get past that and figure out what are we going to do going forward, a GOP aide told Roll Call. Some of the accusations, I mean you wouldnt believe some of this stuff. Its just I mean, youve got to be on Mars to come up with some of this stuff. Another aide slammed the idea that military forces werent properly deployed during the night of the attacks:
There are some real issues and then there is just some crazy stuff, the senior House GOP aide said. The crazy stuff is, you know, the airman in Ramstein [Air Base, Germany,] that knew that the Predator [drone] was armed. There are no armed Predators in the region there. The [status of forces agreement] does not allow us to fly them armed, and everybody knows it.
Read more: http://deadstate.org/report-says-gop-aides-are-beginning-to-mock-house-republicans-benghazi-accusations-as-crazy/
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)Leave? Just a thought.
1ProudAtheist
(346 posts)To dogs howling at the man in the moon.
Cha
(298,313 posts)koolaid.
Kingofalldems
(38,539 posts)high density
(13,397 posts)People voting for them apparently don't care about any substantive issues.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,442 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,260 posts)Haven't common sense Democrats been saying this from the beginning? Now that their agenda & dirty tricks have been exposed, they want to move on? Nothing to see here. Un-friggin-believable.
Berlum
(7,044 posts)so dark to lie lie lie...
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)will show they are unable to govern and perhaps their numbers will decrease and this might get their attention.
fayhunter
(221 posts)sheshe2
(84,162 posts)ErikJ
(6,335 posts)MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Some can even spell.
Math isn't allowed, of course.
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)Wow, seems like a good way to lose your job though. Hopefully they are doing it anonymously.
MADem
(135,425 posts)are responsible for a specific area of expertise. Many Senators, for example, have a military aide who is usually former or retired military and knows his or her way around subject matter specifics.
Some of the comments sound like they came from military aides, like the Predator comment.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)I think I read an article where that exact quote was discovered etched into sandstone, by a dinosaur claw....
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