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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHouse Democrats Will Stay On Benghazi Committee
WASHINGTON -- House Democrats will remain on the GOP's Benghazi committee, even though they think it's sham, a senior Democratic aide told The Huffington Post.
"During a meeting with Leader Pelosi, Democratic Members of the Select Committee on Benghazi made the decision to remain as participants of the panel for now," said the aide.
There had been talk of Democrats ditching the panel in protest of what they say is chairman Trey Gowdy's goal: to tank Hillary Clinton's poll numbers in the 2016 presidential race. Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican, maintains he is leading a legitimate investigation into the 2012 attack at a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya, which took place when Clinton was secretary of state.
Democrats' decision to stay on the committee to push back on Republicans' efforts comes a day after the panel grilled Clinton for 11 hours and produced little new information. Gowdy himself couldn't point to anything new that he learned from her testimony.
more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/house-democrats-benghazi-committee_5616da01e4b0082030a1c975
Enough of this fucking shit already!!!
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House Democrats Will Stay On Benghazi Committee (Original Post)
bunnies
Oct 2015
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spanone
(135,830 posts)1. so, they will be holding more hearings? shameless shits.
How many damn years are we going to waste time on this nonsense? Shut it down already!
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)2. Republicans are not going to give up.
We need people there to keep an eye on them.
louis-t
(23,292 posts)3. They have to stay to keep calling out the foolishness.
emulatorloo
(44,120 posts)5. And pushing back on the lies with facts.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)6. Why didn't the Democrats on the committee use their time to mock the Repugs?
Each Democrat should have taken the questions asked by on of the republicans and mockingly asked them of Hillary with a mocking twist.
How could they not have done that? Mocking that line of questions from the cretin woman from Alabama (why was I not surprised?) would have been sound bite gold.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)7. Beats me.
But its way past time to stop legitimizing this bullshit. Enough is enough!
Bucky
(54,003 posts)9. The congressmen who reported on the types of questions asked of Blumenthal did it perfectly
As did Rep. Cummins, with his heated exchange demanding that all testimony be put on the record.
Bucky
(54,003 posts)8. How could they stay away, with all the free entertainment provided by Mr Gowdy
spanone
(135,830 posts)10. republicans NEVER quit. they double/triple down. rabid dogs.
if they had any sense of decency they would disappear this committee without a word.....
but if they had any sense of decency.....