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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Mon May 5, 2014, 12:01 AM May 2014

Lindsey Graham Says Republicans Risk Getting 'Burned' On Benghazi Issue

It is a political witch hunt.


From HP:
Any attempt by Republicans to embarrass the Obama administration over the deadly Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, could backfire in the mid-term congressional elections, a Republican U.S. senator warned on Sunday.

Snip......

"If we're playing politics with Benghazi, we'll get burned," Graham said on CBS's "Face the Nation."


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/04/lindsey-graham-benghazi_n_5264079.html



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Lindsey Graham Says Republicans Risk Getting 'Burned' On Benghazi Issue (Original Post) UCmeNdc May 2014 OP
like they got burned on Obamacare? Skittles May 2014 #1
Well, he has certainly... 3catwoman3 May 2014 #2
Just dress those burns with some ghauze Blue Owl May 2014 #3
So says the "scumbag" thats driving the Benghazi bus. Historic NY May 2014 #4
Clue for the GOP: Voters don't elect people to embarrass the opposition. Beartracks May 2014 #5
What do you mean? nikto May 2014 #6
That's pretty much ALL the GOP base does these days. TrollBuster9090 May 2014 #8
"If we're playing politics with Benghazi, we'll get burned." Uh... TrollBuster9090 May 2014 #7
If it walks like a duck....... yellowcanine May 2014 #16
My apologies, that was the wrong picture. That wasn't Lindsey Graham... TrollBuster9090 May 2014 #17
This is the same guy warrior1 May 2014 #9
But they ARE "playing politics" with it Proud Liberal Dem May 2014 #10
Wish he'd make up his mind brush May 2014 #11
..says one of the chief drivers of the so-called scandal NastyRiffraff May 2014 #12
First thing I thought as well. reflection May 2014 #14
if? if? mopinko May 2014 #13
Silly me for thinking that that is all Benghazi is about, politics. Beacool May 2014 #15
Because he has been caught colluding with CBS on the bogus piece they aired... Blue Idaho May 2014 #18
Graham is right, republicans already are burned with their bennngaziii!!111!! 'media' fake fury. Sunlei May 2014 #19
Lindsey Graham says... misterhighwasted May 2014 #20

Beartracks

(12,814 posts)
5. Clue for the GOP: Voters don't elect people to embarrass the opposition.
Mon May 5, 2014, 02:37 AM
May 2014

No one ever goes into a voting booth, thinking, "I sure hope my candidate wins so they can go to Washington and embarrass the President."

GOP fail.

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TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts)
7. "If we're playing politics with Benghazi, we'll get burned." Uh...
Mon May 5, 2014, 02:59 AM
May 2014
Uh...so then why is Lindsey Graham playing politics with Benghazi?

*Shakes head*

TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts)
17. My apologies, that was the wrong picture. That wasn't Lindsey Graham...
Tue May 6, 2014, 05:04 AM
May 2014

HERE he is. Sorry, I have no idea how I could have confused the two.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,412 posts)
10. But they ARE "playing politics" with it
Mon May 5, 2014, 10:12 AM
May 2014

What did he think that he, McCain, and Ayotte were doing last year- going after Susan Rice when she was possibly going to be nominated for SOS?

brush

(53,782 posts)
11. Wish he'd make up his mind
Mon May 5, 2014, 11:03 AM
May 2014

didn't he just call the president a scumbag on Benghazi?

They don't have Obamacare to kick around anymore so it's back to "Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi".

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
12. ..says one of the chief drivers of the so-called scandal
Mon May 5, 2014, 12:24 PM
May 2014

You gotta give him points for chutzpah, though.

reflection

(6,286 posts)
14. First thing I thought as well.
Mon May 5, 2014, 02:22 PM
May 2014

This is the guy who has beaten the dead horse so long it's unrecognizable as such

mopinko

(70,112 posts)
13. if? if?
Mon May 5, 2014, 01:33 PM
May 2014

damn, that's the biggest, most obvious IF since cinderella's step mother told her should could come to the ball with them IF she finished her cleaning.

Blue Idaho

(5,049 posts)
18. Because he has been caught colluding with CBS on the bogus piece they aired...
Tue May 6, 2014, 11:46 AM
May 2014

Lindsey's not so hot on Benghazi now that his role in that fiction has been revealed.

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