Mad_Machine76
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My wife and I have been married for 10+ years and, amazingly, we are still married- and so is everybody else (unless they divorced, however, of course, same-sex marriage has never been cited as a reason thereof). Oh, and the world hasn't ended. In short, the anti-marriage equality movement is living on borrowed time and all of the bans and amendments and legal challenges won't be able to save it. I actually have a good feeling that a real SSM challenge is finally going to wind up at SCOTUS and SCOTUS is going to tear the whole thing down on them, esp. if the Dems hold the WH in 2016.
It seems like we might get helped either way:
If the teabaggers are nominated, we do better. If the establishment wins, the teabaggers might be less motivated to vote, and we do better in that event.
I was dumbfounded how many politicos went along with it
I could have told them it didn't make sense without even having any access to half their information. Of course, many of them felt like they had to go along with it politically back then- in the wake of 9/11/01. I have always thought that the first obvious (at least to me) sign that Iraq wasn't a growing menace should've been the recognition that they had virtually no control over its own airspace. The second obvious place it should have ended was the UN Weapons Inspectors being unable to find anything.
Yeah but that was the "old" 9/11
Benghazi is the "new" 9/11 and more important since it happened under a Democrat! 
Yeah, except for that one where 3000 ppl died
Plus all those Embassy attacks (they are considered "American soil", aren't they?)
Not to diminish their deaths
But 7000+ ppl died under Bush, some of whom were tortured by our own military and some died in Embassy attacks and there was little or no Republican outrage, certainly not on the order of what we are seeing with Benghazi. Wake me up when Obama's record looks worse.
In a way, I'm sort of glad that they are choosing to remain deluded
about the reasons for the past (and future) defeats. They didn't nominate far-right Tea partiers in 2008 and 2012 and they still lost. What's their excuse going to be when they (likely) lose again in 2016 regardless of how limited their debate coverage or exposure is? They can't get it through their heads that their policies (or lack thereof) are simply not appealing to a broad enough coalition of people to win the WH.
My predictions about the Select Committee to Investigate Benghazi (bookmarking for later)
1. No matter what or how much facts/evidence are presented that appear to address their questions and concerns, Republicans will continue to ad nauseum repeat all of their "talking points" (heh) and persist in accusing the Obama Administration of perpetrating/covering up some kind of official misconduct. In short, nothing will satisfy their questions and/or concerns.
2. This is headed for an impeachment tribunal sooner or later. Republicans don't want to talk about anything other than Benghazi and in order to keep their perpetually "base" frothy and fired up between now and November (and beyond), they simply won't have any choice but to push for impeachment at some point- regardless of whether they believe that the Senate would convict President Obama (which it wouldn't even if controlled by Republicans next January). Even though they know it was a disaster for them in 1998 when they went after Clinton (and this is after Clinton actually DID "something" even if it wasn't IMHO a truly impeachable offense), they haven't restrained themselves so far when it comes to fighting President Obama and impeachment of him has been a back-burner goal of theirs since Barack Obama took office in 2009 and many of them really think that they've finally got something with an impeachable offense to pin on him with Benghazi. Even if it is non-starter in the Senate, they know that it will tarnish the Obama Administration and Hillary in advance of the 2016 Presidential elections. Of course, it won't really matter to them that most people won't really care about this (I've been paying attention and couldn't explain the "scandal" if my life depended on it) but they have deluded themselves into believing that there are no other topics more important to the country than what happened in Benghazi and/or they simply have nothing else they want to talk about, which they don't.
Feel free to add any of your own...........
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Name: Mara Alis ButlerGender: Female
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