E-mail updates
Follow on Twitter
Subscribe to RSSA group of 97 House Republicans have signed a letter discouraging President Obama from nominating UN Ambassador Susan Rice to be Secretary of State, saying that Rice "either willfully or incompetently misled the American public in the Benghazi matter."
The letter, penned by Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., states the group is "deeply troubled" that President Obama is considering Rice for the position.
"Though Ambassador Rice has been our Representative to the U.N., we believe her misleading statements over the days and weeks following the attack on our embassy in Libya that led to the deaths of Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans caused irreparable damage to her credibility both at home and around the world," the letter reads.
Citing her comments on the Sunday shows, including Meet the Press, on Sept. 16, 2012 where she called the attack "initially a spontaneous reaction" to protest in Egypt, the letter says "the inconsistencies deserve closer examination."
The letter says the unanswered questions surrounding the Benghazi attacks are reason to "strongly oppose any efforts to nominate Ambassador Susan Rice for the position of Secretary of State."
Leave a Comment:
If these obstructionist pissants are intent on continuing their boorish non-governing tactics. We, the people will turn them all out of office in two years, like we did that jerkwad Allen West in Florida. We are now pitching hardball, one bozo at a time. Ask Mitt Romney who's in charge?
You guys are cracking me up...It's all true though. The Republicans can go "sit n spin". Quit messing around with details that don't matter...Get to work on the deficit. The Teabaggers are doomed to repeat history at this rate.
This from the LOSER likes of representatives and the republican party who SIGNED a pledge to a man who has WHAT to do with their prior pledge to the PEOPLE????
Let them sign letters & make pledges WE know what they are about & they need to be a - bout it elsewhere & if WE get OUR WAY that will happen 2014 - gerrymandering (CHEATING IS what they call it!!!!) & voter suppression aside (even & if the Supreme Court tries to help ONE MORE GROUP of SUBVERSIVES hijack the PEOPLE) THE JIG IS UP!!!!!
"WE" are the only INDIVIDUALS YOU ANSWER TO - make your peace with that & as for Susan Rice well WE know you are inapt at picking your battles when all are looking - you tend to do that when our back is turned so Rice & Warren go, go get um, get um!!!!
Ben 636050 - no, they probably don't work for a living. No, they can't or won't read. No, they don't know anything about government or what, in elementary school, we used to call "civics", they were too busy getting their self-esteem reinforced. No, they don't know how to live in a society of responsibility for one's actions. These people call themselves "liberals," but they really aren't liberal at all. They are closed-minded narrow-viewed unenlightened knuckle-dragging drooling TV-watching Wal-Mart zombies without a care in the world except that what YOU do and value matches what THEY do and value, and will pass any law they can to see you bend to their lily-stamped "will." Not to worry - these people are liberals; they never last long.
You people are after the wrong truth. We should be finding out the causes behind failure of the security that allowed these deaths to happen. Who gives a dam about what Rice said 5 days after the incident, unless we only care about politics and are looking for some reason to bring down or embarrass Obama. I can see why McCain is doing this, but what's in it for you posters who are spouting off calling Rice a liar?
well, there they go again - those document signing republicans. seems as though they will sign any piece of paper just for the joy of signing or proving that they are literate.
they signed Grover's treasonable edict and watched in horror as the country voted them down, down, down into the abyss.
the GOP would put John Bolton in charge of affairs in the middle east and watch the quagmire grow and escalate. such fools these republicans, standing together on both floors of the Congress with lime dicks in their hands.
pathetic bunch
The comment that resonates most for me is the one by @Jack in Plymouth. Why on earth do these clowns think that this is the defining priority for the nation or the American people at this point in time. The country is on the verge of a fiscal cliff that was caused by obstructionist posturing. Now that mess has to be untangled and cleaned up. People with sensibilities and critical thinking skills see through the code and realize that a substantial motivation for opposition to Rice is race, just as has been opposition to Obama. However, another major factor is the desire to grandstand in order to try to become "relevant" and grasp some semblance of "power" following the election results. . Moreover, Obama has not yet even nominated Rice for Secretary of State and there is no guarantee that he will or will not. Therefore, why are McCain and Graham engaging in this dog and pony show when there are far more important and relevant issues to be addressed and resolved THROUGH COOPERATION and not through obstruction and posturing.
Is the message that the GOP learned NOTHING from the election? Doubling down on stupid is NOT the way to endear the GOP to the American people. Unless the GOP can demonstrate that it is responsive, in terms of learning lessons from the past election, the only alternative for the country is to sweep the GOP from control of the House of Representatives in the mid-term election, assuming that their egocentric games do not push the country back into a deep recession before then.