Five Dems Named To Participate on Benghazi Panel

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBCNews.com

Five Dems Named To Participate on Benghazi Panel
By Luke Russert, Frank Thorp V and Carrie Dann

After weeks of internal debate, House Democrats announced Wednesday that they will participate in a Republican-led select committee to investigate the 2012 Benghazi attacks.

In a statement, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi named five Democrats – led by House Oversight and Government Reform ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland - to serve on the panel.

The other members selected are Reps. Adam Smith of Washington, Adam Schiff and Linda Sanchez of California, and Tammy Duckworth of Illinois.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/five-dems-named-participate-benghazi-panel-n111181

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Just heard this mentioned by Al Sharpton on his radio show and checked MSNBC's website.

Would have liked to see Grayson on there but at least Elijah Cummings will be there to tamp down the bs.

[daleanime]

1. And Tammy Duckworth too!

Almost makes it worth watching.

[AtheistCrusader]

2. She takes no shit.

Too bad her time is being wasted though. The whole thing is a farce.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. This may give her a forum to shine

Anyone who could so successfully destroy and dispatch of the loon Joe Walsh, is welcome to turn her sights towards the loons on the other side of this panel.

[busterbrown]

9. Thank God.. Tammy is gonna get em!!!

Someone tell me please when this is gonna happen...

[rtracey]

3. Cummings.....good

Cummings will not take any CRAP from Issa, or this panel. He has the most knowledge by being on the Issa committee now, so he will not tolerate and BS.. Tammy Duckworth being former military wil have a good say in matters too. Hopefully, this will reign in Gowdy, and not allow him to campaign for Speaker of the House while attempting to make a scandal out of a Tragedy.

[bonniebgood]

4. Appointing Alan Greyson which would have excited the

base. We can't have that. COWARDS.

[RobertEarl]

7. Yep

He's not in the gang, he just represents the grassroots. Giving him any position of power would be detrimental to the powers that be. IOW, he'd mess with their junk. They didn't get where they are by handing out power to the grassroots.

[ancianita]

8. Right?

[billhicks76]

24. Exactly

Pelosi is part of our sell-out leadership that cut a deal with the devil years ago. They do not want someone with a good heart getting a platform. People may want to elect Grayson to higher office when they see how real he is and how much he actually stands up for us. No they want NSA leveraged sell-outs on the take who don't upset the sweetheart deals they have all made.

[Voice for Peace]

14. would have excited the Fox News base, too.. given them many daily outrages

raised their ratings, etc.. so maybe a good decision.

[MsLeopard]

17. That's right

Just like Elizabeth Warren said in her book that Larry Summers said to her early on: You can be an insider and have your ideas heard and considered. Or you can be an outsider and say what you want, but no one will listen. Be an insider and we'll listen. But the first rule of being an insider is you never say anything bad about another insider. (Paraphrasing)

Rep. Grayson is obviously not an insider. And what a shame.

[billhicks76]

25. Awesome Post

You said our entire state of affairs right there. The Democrat insiders that want to eat at their masters tables but only give us scraps have never done anything for us. Summers makes me want to throw up. He will be judged eventually.

[Submariner]

5. Get some f*cking answers Democrats!

Since you don't have the balls to boycott this witch hunt, and instead attend and give it legitimacy, then burn those shit head republicans about all the shit that went down on their watch.

[dawn frenzy adams]

19. THANKS!!!

For the great post!

[24601]

23. And yet, in all those attacks during Bush, only two Americans were killed. And a good number

of the dead were the terrorist attackers.

[BillZBubb]

27. Your defense of bush

is laughable. You should be ashamed.

[24601]

28. The truth is the truth. A misleading post doesn't change it and erodes credibility. DU should be

more than a mouthpiece for propaganda on either extreme.

[OKNancy]

10. All five have been on other Benghazi committees. They have experience

and knowledge. These are good choices.

[jimlup]

11. I'm disappointed to here that the dems decided to participate

I think they should have ignored it. There is a time when it becomes a circus and we have reached that point. They should have made that statement forcefully and then proceeded to ignore it.

Sorry but I wish the democratic party would show a bit more backbone at situations like this. I'm F*$%!@ sick of the G&%$# D*$@ Republicans and they need to be told where to put it.

[dawn frenzy adams]

20. Frankly Nancy Pelosi...

needs to go! As a matter of fact, the whole top tier of Democrats should go.

[Lochloosa]

12. Adam Smith is a good pick also. He's smart and knows the Middle East and Africa better than most.

I think he's been over there more often than anyone except for old man mccain.

[Gothmog]

13. This is a great group

I am very impressed with Reps. Duckworth and Cummings

[pnwmom]

15. Adam Smith from Washington is another good choice. n/t

[mountain grammy]

16. They are good, but would have loved to have Grayson on that panel.

[The Stranger]

18. I'm still so glad that Pelosi took impeachment off the table.

Because they sure as fuck would never do that in a million years.

Thanks, Nancy!

[heaven05]

21. To quote one of my heroes, E. Warren

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"give me a break!" Repthugs, get a fucking clue. No one gives a damn about your select committee except the dunderheads sitting on their couch watching faux news or listening to racist, sexist RW radio pundits with their heads stuck up their asses. Oxygen deprivation is a serious condition RWers.

[penndragon69]

22. It dosen't matter how many

Democrats are on the panel if the head repubLIEcon will
NEVER let them speak !

[George II]

26. I couldn't have picked a better five to counter this stupidity.

[McCamy Taylor]

29. Pelosi's job will be to lob softballs at Hillary when she shows up to put the GOP in its place.

It will be beautiful. Like Conyers on the Clinton impeachment.

[pampango]

30. Allen West Doubts Tammy Duckworth's Loyalty To Country, Angry About Democratic Picks For Benghazi

Special Committee

Former congressman Allen West is angry about the Democratic picks for the latest House panel investigating the 2012 Benghazi attack. Speaking yesterday with Janet Mefferd, West criticized Elijah Cummings, Adam Smith, Adam Schiff, Linda Sanchez and Tammy Duckworth, the Democratic lawmakers picked to fill the party’s five slots on the 12-member GOP-led “special committee.”

West especially raised doubts about Duckworth, a veteran who lost both of her legs and the use of her right arm in the Iraq War, raising suspicions about her loyalty to the country.

“Tammy Duckworth, you know I just don’t know where her loyalties lie, for her to have been a veteran and a wounded warrior for the United States Army, she should know that this is not the right thing and hopefully she will remember the oath of office that she took as an Army officer and not the allegiance I guess she believes she has to the liberal progressives of the Democrat [sic] party,” West said.

He also attacked Sanchez for the “whiny way that she has,” called Smith a “geeky little debater” and said Cummings “should not be on that committee.”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/allen-west-doubts-tammy-duckworths-loyalty-country-angry-about-democratic-picks-benghazi-spe