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If President Barack Obama taps U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to take over for Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, her nomination will be met with stiff resistance by some Republican senators.
Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., each pledged to filibuster Rice's prospective nomination as secretary of state due to her public explanations for the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.
Amid speculation that Obama might nominate Rice for the top diplomatic post to succeed Clinton, who has said she plans to step aide now that the president has won a second term, McCain said he would "do whatever to block the nomination that is within our power" at a press conference Wednesday on Capitol Hill.
Graham and McCain, joined by New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R), also called Wednesday for Congress to establish a temporary select committee to investigate the attacks in Libya.
But as Obama prepares for his first post-election news conference, at which he will likely be asked to address personnel issues in his administration, Republicans meant to send a strong pre-emptive warning.
"She is so disconnected from reality that I don’t trust her," Graham said.
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OK Petraeus has testified. Are all you loony toons satisfied? Are you going to come up with disparaging crap about Petraeus because he didn't bring down Obama. You have a habit of eating your young if they grow up not believing in your BS anymore. You did it to Powell, so I'm sure it won't be long before you do it to Petraeus.
They won't be satisfied because they embrace ignorance as a state of being. You could explain to them everything logically and in the end they will say, "Well that's just your opinion, I am entitled to have my own."
On matters which are purely matters of Faith, you are allowed to believe whatever you wish to believe. On matters of fact, you either get up to speed on what the facts are, or shut up until you have done so, Unless you are just determined to be seen as an ignoramous. But if you continue to embrace willful ignorance, it won't be long before we who live in the fact based world will have to declare you non-compos- mentis. We're not going to race to the bottom any longer, nor tolerate irrationality in our public policy. Change has come, learn to live with it, or perish.
Why should they care. Let the appointee and her idiot leader raise to their level of incompetence. Stop trying to protect America. Maybe they will wake up to what decision that was just made.