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GOP: Gone Fishing
The speed at which the Republican party has pivoted off an embarrassing thrashing and on to not one but two non-scandals is astounding. And shows that the GOP spin doctors are still operating at an incredibly high level of efficiency.
This grasping of straws is a sorry and thinly veiled attempt to tie the President to a wrong doing. With the end goal of impeachment, A result that would be devastating to the conservative cause in Washington and throughout the country, but more on that later.
Let’s take a look at these wannabe scandals and why they have no legs. First up the Benghazi embassy attack. The claim is that the White House denied help to the embassy when it was under attack. Well besides just being a a flat out lie
is also illogical. According to the White House the only thing in the area was an unarmed drone. Fighters and AC130 gunships were purposed but seen as impractical.
To quote the movie The Siege. ”The Army is a broad sword, not a scalpel.” You can see videos of the kinds of damage either fighter jets or AC130 Gunships can do all over youtube. It’s not exact and it’s not pretty. The collateral damage would have been tremendous. That’s what being the President is about. Making hard calls when both choices are absolutely fucking terrible.
The second would be the resignation of General Petraeus. The reason he had to go as head of the CIA is because you can’t be in a position to become a victim of blackmail. So because of our social norms in the United States adultery is frowned on and could be used against you. Anyone that has done any security work for the government can tell you that they want to know everything about you. Up to and including you credit score. So when you work for the CIA and you get caught cheating on your wife you’ve gotta go plain and simple.
So with these two non-issues the Right is looking to discredit and ultimately impeach the president for some yet to be discovered wrong doing. But the question you have to ask is. Is that what you really want? Do you want a disgraced Obama that hands the keys over to a President Biden with nothing to lose? If you don’t like the President then you are gonna hate Biden. Say goodbye to the “grand bargain”, and bullying of the President that Obama allows (Which I can’t stand by the way) to keep the peace. And say hello to an unleashed pit bull that finally gets the keys to the car. Let it go neocon’s, let it go.
morninggloryseed
I’m confused because if this whole business is not a coverup, is not serious, is not a Watergate, etc; then why did the White House say that intelligence people watching the attack (on the 11th anniversary of 9/11) in real time, reading flash messages from the scene, weren’t sure an obvious terrorist attack was a terrorist attack. I know Obama said that four Americans dead just isn’t that big a deal and we need to move on, bumps in the road, etc but to me this is still a murder investigation, and an investigation into an attack by the same Al Qaeda that Obama said he defeated. To me, it says ‘nothing to see here please move on’ but I know if this happened under bush, the left would not suggest that this is not a serious coverup.
R. J. Johnson
Because the CIA does not make it a habit of broadcasting their security failures to give people a road map to make it happen again. They get CNN and Fox News in Afghanistan too you know. And of course its a cover up. That’s why the CIA exists. You’ll never meet a more don’t trust your government guy then me, but talk to some Nam’ or Iraq vets about getting denied for fire missions in actual war zones for one reason or another. It sucks but it happens. Now remove the situation from a war zone all together and you can imagine how such a call was made. The military is not a police force. You don’t get to call 911 and they come running. It sucks but that’s the reality.