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GOP Busted On Benghazi: Voted For MASSIVE Embassy Security Cuts Starting in 2011

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It looks like the GOP’s tendency towards history revisionism is continuing to bite the party in its collective ass.
The Hill published an article in 2012 showing exactly where Republicans in the House of Representatives stood on security measures for foreign embassies like the one in Benghazi.




Not at all surprisingly, it doesn’t reflect well on the Republican Party at all.
“Republicans have sought to cut hundreds of millions of dollars slated for security at U.S. embassies and consulates since gaining control of the House in 2011.
“Democrats are scrutinizing the GOP proposals in the wake of attacks on U.S. embassies and consulates in the Middle East, one of which saw Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other Americans murdered.”
Jesse Ferguson, a spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, says:
“When House Republicans protect budget-busting tax breaks for millionaires first, and slash embassy security, they reveal that their tough talk on national security is really just hollow words.”
Wow.
But if you’re as amazed at the audacity of House Republicans as I am, you haven’t seen anything yet.

Jennifer Hing, communications director for the House Appropriations Committee, said:
“It is extremely distasteful that some ill-informed Democrat staff are using the instability and violence abroad to score cheap political hits.”
Because that’s not something we’d EVER witness amongst Republicans, ever.
*COUGH*

*COUGH*
It’s also worth noting that while the GOP was oh so indignant at the Democrats for questioning their embassy security budget cut proposals, we had then-Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney attempting to pin the failures to stop the attack on the American Embassy in Benghazi on President Barack Obama.

Within the above Hill article, Romney adviser Richard Williamson made this statement:
“There’s a pretty compelling story that if you had a President Romney, you’d be in a different situation…For the first time since Jimmy Carter, we’ve had an American ambassador assassinated.”
That doesn’t look at all like a GOP candidate’s adviser looking to exploit a tragic situation for political gain…Nope.
Although this political maneuvering eventually blew up in Mitt Romney’s face, it did not stop Republicans fromimmediately claiming that President Barack Obama was able to return for a second term as president because he supposedly lied about Benghazi.
Far from back off of the politicizing the Benghazi tragedy, the has since GOP doubled down, working overtime to attack Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers. Despite being called out for this by Democratic Benghazi Committee members (and by Hillary Clinton’s campaign), the GOP trudged ahead anyway. Somehow, they imagined their “grand theater”, complete with stacks of email and paper-ripping, would get Americans on their side. Instead, they might have helped give Hillary Clinton a decisive boost.
It’s bizarre really, all the outrage that the GOP wants us to think they feel RIGHT NOW about what happened in Benghazi. Especially when one only need look back a few years to determine their security budget cuts might very well have weakened security at Benghazi prior to the attack.
Please meditate for a moment on remarks made by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah). Chaffetz matter-of-factly justified the decision to cut embassy security funding to CNN in 2012, in the immediate aftermath of the Benghazi tragedy:
“Look, we have to make priorities and choices in this country. We have… 150,000 contractors in Iraq. We have more than 6,000 contractors, a private army there, for President Obama, in Baghdad. And we’re talking about can we get two dozen or so people into Libya to help protect our forces. When you’re in touchy economic times, you have to make difficult choices. You have to prioritize things.”
In 2012, Chaffetz acknowledged that he didn’t feel funding security in Benghazi was a priority prior to the attack. In 2013, Chaffetz joined a chorus of GOP politicians claiming Benghazi happened and was poorly addressed because the Obama Administration “misled” the public. In 2015, we have Chaffetz, now House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman, among those hoping to demonstrate that Hillary Clinton’s emails are a matter of serious concern. Not to mention working pretty damn hard to connect them the Benghazi attack.
Chaffetz said:
“Violations of the Federal Records Act within federal agencies is something we take very seriously.
“The House Oversight Committee will work with Mr. [Trey] Gowdy and the Select Committee on Benghazi to further explore Hillary Clinton’s use of personal e-mails while at the State Department.”
 

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See, the Republican's get selective aminesa they have cut every damn thing and then want to blame it on The President. It's their damn fault that the Ambassador Stevens is dead because they cut the damn budget. All their asses need to be fired and swept out of the house and Senate like the trash that they are.
 

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#Hillary'sTimingThough

Mrs. Clinton has been attending Barack Obama's school of checkers-not-chess there's levels to this sh!t.

She has let them talk all this cash sh!t, even make a movie about it, and now she responds.














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The Republicans being liars and revisionists. Color me shocked. They always prioritize the wrong things and when it inevitably blows up in their face they are quick to point fingers at Dems.
 

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GOP or no GOP, we should have never gone into Libya to begin with. Amerikkka fµcked up that country worst than Ghadafi did. NATO purposely destroyed Libya's infrastructure which was very strong and intact the way Ghadafi had set it up. They especially went after their water infrastructure which goes against international law.

Ghadafi was no saint but his people were better off resolving internal issues without our interference. Hilary was just a puppet having her strings pulled and then left out in the dust to be blamed for all of it. bµllsh!t. I don't even like her but I don't blame her entirely for Benghazi.

They had a strong infrastructure, a good education system and decent health care in Libya, sectarian issues aside, they were much better off than they are today.
 

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A Judge already ruled that the embassy had enough of intelligence and security that could've got those men out there....this tragedy had nothing to do with those budget cuts((which has also happened at other embassy's in hot zones)). This was the fault of military and state department incompetence..

lmao at this article is from 2012..propaganda.
 

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Yes OP, Rethugs suffer from a disingenuous case of revisionist history--even down to blaming 9/11 on President Obama who wasn't even President during 9/11 :e5_25:
 

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Of course....but not surprised those fonts will try an say this is a lie.....

An claim they are not Republican.Michael Steele broke it down...if your not earning 6 figures a yr an voting Republican. ...you are voting against yourself....period.:mad-new::highly_amused:
 

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#Hillary'sTimingThough

Mrs. Clinton has been attending Barack Obama's school of checkers-not-chess there's levels to this sh!t.

She has let them talk all this cash sh!t, even make a movie about it, and now she responds.

So true. I'm rooting for Hillz but she or someone in her camp should've spilled this sh!t a LONG time ago. Had she done this, Donald wouldn't've had a leg to stand on in calling her crooked Hillary. Had she spilled this sh-t, no one in the GOP couldn't've said sh-t as she could've clocked their asses with this harsh truth.

She better push this info in ads to clean up her image a bit and help those on the down ballot. It may do a little but it'll do some damage.
 

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A Judge already ruled that the embassy had enough of intelligence and security that could've got those men out there....this tragedy had nothing to do with those budget cuts((which has also happened at other embassy's in hot zones)). This was the fault of military and state department incompetence.. lmao at this article is from 2012..propaganda.


Oh so The State Dept was wrong to push for funding for additional security to prevent embassy attacks. They just needed the right person in charge (e.g. Jill Stein, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, anyone other than Hillary Clinton) to guide the magical rescue of the 4 people who were killed. And this "judge" whom you mentioned is a foreign policy/international security expert. And despite numerous Benghazi investigations that each cleared Clinton of any wrong doing. This is still her fault. And despite the 13 embassy bombings under the GW Bush Administration. Which resulted in not 4 deaths but 60 deaths and zero Republican led investigations. Benghazi was not just a Republican led which hunt/smear campaign. And despite the Bush White House's use of a private email server (owned by the RNC), and their claim to have lost 22 million emails. Which resulted in zero Republican led investigations. The email nonsense is not just part of a Right Wing smear campaign. Yes of course this contradicts your preferred narrative so of course it's all just propaganda.


And yes the article is from 2012 because this information was revealed not too long after the incident happened. This has been public knowledge for a long time.
 

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Oh so The State Dept was wrong to push for funding for additional security to prevent embassy attacks. They just needed the right person in charge (e.g. Jill Stein, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, anyone other than Hillary Clinton) to guide the magical rescue of the 4 people who were killed. And this "judge" whom you mentioned is a foreign policy/international security expert. And despite numerous Benghazi investigations that each cleared Clinton of any wrong doing. This is still her fault. And despite the 13 embassy bombings under the GW Bush Administration. Which resulted in not 4 deaths but 60 deaths and zero Republican led investigations. Benghazi was not just a Republican led which hunt/smear campaign. And despite the Bush White House's use of a private email server (owned by the RNC), and their claim to have lost 22 million emails. Which resulted in zero Republican led investigations. The email nonsense is not just part of a Right Wing smear campaign. Yes of course this contradicts your preferred narrative so of course it's all just propaganda.


And yes the article is from 2012 because this information was revealed not too long after the incident happened. This has been public knowledge for a long time.

The investigations didn't clear her name lol. I read the FULL report. It said that some blame falls on her and the incompetence of the Obama administration.
 

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The investigations didn't clear her name lol. I read the FULL report.

After a more than two-year investigation, encompassing 33 hearings held in congressional investigations and four public hearings, at an estimated cost of $7 million and counting, Republicans on the House Benghazi Committee on Tuesday released their long-awaited report on the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi that resulted in the death of four Americans. With the general election five months away, many predicted that the 800-page report would inflame the already fiery 2016 presidential election by finding evidence of wrongdoing by presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time of the attack. But it seems that while the committee’s investigation will certainly thrust Benghazi back into the public eye, and it did manage to unearth some new details, Republicans once again failed to find a smoking gun to pin the tragedy on Clinton. . . . . .

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/us/politics/hillary-clinton-benghazi.html?_r=0



By the time the special House committee began its investigation in 2014, there already had been seven U.S. government probes into the Obama administration’s handling of the Benghazi attacks. All of them found that even a flawless response to the violence would not have enabled U.S. troops to reach Benghazi in time to save the lives of the four Americans killed there.
Yet the report makes the case that if U.S. officials had been as attentive earlier to the deteriorating security situation in Libya as they were in heralding the revolution there as a foreign policy success, the American deaths might have been avoided.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-benghazi-republicans-20160628-snap-story.html

It said that some blame falls on her and the incompetence of the Obama administration

Again how many investigations did these same Republicans lead during the Bush Administration. When there were 13 embassy attacks. Which resulted in not 4 deaths but 60. How many times did they blame Bush. How many times did they investigate Rice or Powell? Zero.

Of course they wrote a report criticizing the Obama administration. According to them that is their only congressional responsibility. Seven million dollars + 33 hearings = nothing but Republican BS. Which is all it ever was.

But sure Jan your girlfriend Jill Stein would have been able to save the day, and get those 4 people to safety.


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After a more than two-year investigation, encompassing 33 hearings held in congressional investigations and four public hearings, at an estimated cost of $7 million and counting, Republicans on the House Benghazi Committee on Tuesday released their long-awaited report on the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi that resulted in the death of four Americans. With the general election five months away, many predicted that the 800-page report would inflame the already fiery 2016 presidential election by finding evidence of wrongdoing by presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time of the attack. But it seems that while the committee’s investigation will certainly thrust Benghazi back into the public eye, and it did manage to unearth some new details, Republicans once again failed to find a smoking gun to pin the tragedy on Clinton. . . . . .

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/us/politics/hillary-clinton-benghazi.html?_r=0



By the time the special House committee began its investigation in 2014, there already had been seven U.S. government probes into the Obama administration’s handling of the Benghazi attacks. All of them found that even a flawless response to the violence would not have enabled U.S. troops to reach Benghazi in time to save the lives of the four Americans killed there.
Yet the report makes the case that if U.S. officials had been as attentive earlier to the deteriorating security situation in Libya as they were in heralding the revolution there as a foreign policy success, the American deaths might have been avoided.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-benghazi-republicans-20160628-snap-story.html



Again how many investigations did these same Republicans lead during the Bush Administration. When there were 13 embassy attacks. Which resulted in not 4 deaths but 60. How many times did they blame Bush. How many times did they investigate Rice or Powell? Zero.

Of course they wrote a report criticizing the Obama administration. According to them that is their only congressional responsibility. Seven million dollars + 33 hearings = nothing but Republican BS. Which is all it ever was.

But sure Jan your girlfriend Jill Stein would have been able to save the day, and get those 4 people to safety.


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If you not citing excerpts from FULL 800 page report then you are wasting your time

The more than 800-page report paints a picture of a perfect storm of bureaucratic inertia, rapidly worsening security in Libya and inadequate resources in the months that led up to the killings of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three colleagues on September 11, 2012.

The administration initially claimed the attack was carried out by an angry mob responding to a video made in the U.S. mocking Islam and the Prophet Mohammed. But the assault was later determined to be a terrorist attack -- a finding Republicans accused the White House of covering up to protect President Barack Obama's re-election prospects.
The House Benghazi Committee report doesn't directly blame Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time and is now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, for the attacks. But it does suggest she and other administration officials did not adequately address the risks involved.


http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/28/politics/benghazi-report-hillary-clinton/



Want me to PM you the full 800 page report and highlight all the times it mentioned ya girl Hillary?!?? I already sent it to a font ((who won't be named lmao)) and never heard from that ass since.
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If you not citing excerpts from FULL 800 page report then you are wasting your time [/B]http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/28/politics/benghazi-report-hillary-clinton/ Want me to PM you the full 800 page report and highlight all the times it mentioned ya girl Hillary?!?? I already sent it to a font ((who won't be named lmao)) and never heard from that ass since.


Right the 800 page report compiled by the same Republicans who despite the 13 embassy bombings under the GW Bush Administration. Which resulted in not 4 deaths but 60 deaths led zero investigations into Bush, Powell or Rice. They wasted 7 million dollars trying to pin the tragedy on Clinton and again they couldn't produce anything credible.

Wasting time? Really? Not only did the Republicans waste the time of everyone who was involved. They also wasted millions of tax payer dollars.

Attempting to frame this as anything other than a Republican witch hunt funded by tax payers is a waste of your time and an insult to the intelligence of everyone who post here.


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Of course....but not surprised those fonts will try an say this is a lie.....

An claim they are not Republican.Michael Steele broke it down...if your not earning 6 figures a yr an voting Republican. ...you are voting against yourself....period.:mad-new::highly_amused:

When have democrat policies made poor people richer? Grover Cleveland in the White House?

Democrats in many cities are always supporting cab cartels, and other special interest groups at the expense of those on the bottom of the economic ladder.
 

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