Benghazi: What's the Charge Again?

[Statler Waldorf]

And you can run on a platform of "we're going to take health insurance away from 8 million of you." I bet it will go over swimmingly, if the GOP even makes more than a token effort.

I knew it! Democrats do not care about giving people health insurance; they only care about giving people something free in order to buy votes using someone else’s money. If we take it away and replace it with something better we can win easily. Couple that with the fact that the 6 million people who lost their health insurance after being told that if they liked it they could keep it will not be voting for any Democrat and the GOP cannot lose. Special elections in Florida already indicate the momentum has swung in the GOP’s favor. They will add seats in the House and most likely take back the Senate. Tough days ahead for Obama.

“During the campaign, Republicans routinely ran ads tethering Sink to the health-care law, which she said should be preserved but fixed. Democrats hoped Jolly's repeal/replace posture would alienate voters and doom his chances. His victory speaks volumes about how potent a weapon the law can be for Republicans this year.” – The Washington Post, Republican Jolly wins Florida special election

I don't know that Bush actually lied in making his case for going to war. He could have been mislead concerning Saddam's WMD program as was Clinton.

You do not see how this works? If you are a Democrat and you are convinced by the preponderance of the evidence concerning WMDs such as President Clinton and Senator Clinton you were lied to. If you are a Republican and you are convinced by the preponderance of the evidence concerning WMDs you lied to the American people. See how that works?

I agree with you however; we did not need the WMDs in the first place in order to go into Iraq so I would have just preferred that not have been presented as the main reason we were going in.

Rep. Paul Ryan is still complaining about CNN’s Candy Crowley’s 2012 debate moderation. Specifically, about the fact that she corrected Mitt Romney for saying President Obama took 14 days to call the 9/11 attack on the Benghazi compound “an act of terror,” when Obama said those words in the Rose Garden the very day after the killings of four Americans.

You do realize that Crowley apologized for her misstep in that debate don’t you? Simply using the word terrorism in a speech does not mean a person is calling what happened in Benghazi an act of terrorism.

“I heard the president speak at the time. I, sort of, reread a lot of stuff about Libya because I knew we’d probably get a Libya question so I kind of wanted to be up on it. I knew that the president had said, you know, these acts of terror won’t stand or, whatever the whole quote was. Right after that I did turn around and say, but you’re totally correct that they spent two weeks telling us this was about a tape and that that there was this riot outside the Benghazi consulate which there wasn’t. He was right in the main, I just think he picked the wrong word, his thrust was correct.”- Candy Crowley, on CNN’s Panel after moderating the Romney/Obama debate.