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Does anyone care about Susan Rice?

By: Griffin@griffinelection (Diary)  |  November 28th, 2012 at 05:00 AM  | 

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Ok, excluding Senator(s) McCain, Graham and Ayotte, does anyone give a damn about what UN Ambassador Susan Rice did or did not say?

For those who have missed it, the McCain/Graham duo is back and better than ever, throwing all of their resources into opposing UN Ambassador, Susan Rice’s future bid for Secretary of State.

The reason?  Because she repeated the “protest” line during the Benghazi cover-up.  Essentially, she, like all employees of the Executive Branch, followed the lead of the President and claimed that the terrorist attack was in-fact a rocket-propelled protest gone wrong, rather than a terrorist attack.

Maybe it is just me, but I don’t see why this matters.  What good does it do to pour all of our political capital into stopping a Secretary of State appointment, when Obama is just going to put forward someone like John Kerry to replace him?  So she is irresponsible, is this something we didn’t already know?  After Van Jones and the guy from Harold and Kumar, did we think Obama was responsible in his nominations?  I would love to see Senator Graham grow man parts large enough to oppose a SCOTUS nominee with the same fervor that he is opposing Rice’s nomination.  In the end, the Secretary of State is simply going to push through Obama policies.  That is not the case with SCOTUS nominees, who Graham has no qualms about supporting. 

If saying something stupid now prevents a public servant from taking office, I can think of two Senate mavericks that shoot off their mouth entirely too much. 

This is a zero sum game for everyone involved.  So our UN rep spouts the talking points of the White House, so what?

And what about Hillary?  Has McGraham’s relationship with the former Senator clouded their judgment on her failure in Benghazi?

The simple fact is that this is Obama’s mess.  He is to blame for the cover-up.  But, Obama was too strong and we couldn’t tie it to him.  Senator McCain endorsed Mitt Romney for President.  Lindsey Graham endorsed Mitt Romney for President.  Kelly Ayotte endorsed Mitt Romney for President.

Mitt Romney tried and failed to force Obama to answer for this and now we are still trying to settle the score and come out with our pound of flesh through a minor player. 

We aren’t going to get it.  We failed.  They win this round.  Maybe, if McCain knew anything about economics, we could begin focusing on those types of issues instead of the inanely unnecessary. 

Oh, and when is someone going to primary Lindsey Graham?  His worthlessness to conservative causes is staggering.

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  • Jim_Riggs

    In about six weeks John McCain will lose his seat on the Senate Armed Services Committee. Maybe then he’ll go away.

  • Kyle-MI

    Does anyone care about the dead ambassador? Does anyone care that Susan Rice repeated absolute lies about the situation that lead to a dead ambassador? Does anyone care that after repeating these lies Susan Rice is being considered for Secretary of State? Does anyone care that Obama, Senate Dems, and their extreme liberal base are backing a woman who repeated lies in order to cover up the incompetence that lead to a dead ambassador? Do you really not care about this?

    You should be the one who is hanging his head in shame. You are no better than any of these worthless pieces of garbage in this administration who allowed this to happen and then shamelessly lied to the American public for political gain. If you don’t care about this, then you might as well have lit the fire that killed the ambassador.

  • John Liberty

    Susan Rice is a shield for Barack Obama. He says not to pick on her for Benghazi, but he refuses to answer questions himself. When she’s gone, he’ll find another sap to throw under the bus.

  • irishgirl

    Frankly, I do care. She flat out lied. There’s no way she should be confirmed as SoS. I think this is a battle worth fighting.

  • streiff

    generally we, as a nation, have frowned upon promoting people who consciously lied to the American people. Rice lied. She gave the news show performances in question nearly a week after the events and we now know the events were video taped and broadcast to the White House, Pentagon, and State in real time. Presumably they have TiVo. So the “dog ate my homework” excuse doesn’t work.

    We don’t need to spend any political capital on this. The Obama regime is not going to to a full court press to get her into State. All we need is one senator to place a hold on her nomination. Kelly Ayotte has already said she will do that.

    Rice is also a long time Obama crony who we should politically cripple as a matter of principle.

  • norris

    Is she the best the democrats have ? She has shown poor judgement by not getting the real facts before asking for time on 5 or more networks to cover for white house inaction . Her best qualifications are not her record but sex and race . Secretary of state is too important a post to award to someone who can not think and act without talking points from the democrat party to lie for the president .