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freshwest

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33. Interesting source material:
Thu Sep 18, 2014, 04:56 AM
Sep 2014

Last edited Thu Sep 18, 2014, 05:28 AM - Edit history (1)

Googling takes one back to your source instead of the print ready page:

The Daily Signal: Policy News, Conservative Analysis and Opinion

Conservatives and GOP talking points don't usually play well at DU:

http://dailysignal.com/

Top stories including the GOP hit piece on Hillary:

6 Takeaways From the Benghazi Panel’s First Hearing on Security Failures

The House special committee investigating the Benghazi terrorist attacks today convened its first public hearing, examining progress in implementing security improvements at U.S. embassies and…



Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., at today's hearing . (Photo: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Mr. Gowdy has been savaged repeatedly at DU, as he continued his Benghazi obsession. He says he will continue the hearings through 2016 and all the way to 2024 if HRC is elected. And that he intends to impeach both Obama and Biden. So, your source is not fondly regarded here. And he keeps on going after the House decided nothing was wrong:

Trey Gowdy’s Benghazi setback: New humiliation for GOP’s scandal hunter

As the GOP's Benghazi committee schedules its first hearing, another committee finds no evidence of a conspiracy

SIMON MALOY

In case you were at all concerned that the relative lack of Benghazi news of late meant that the issue was finally receding after nearly two years of intensive and fruitless investigation, fear not: in just a few short weeks, Benghazi-mania will live and breathe again. Rep. Trey Gowdy, chair of the House select committee tasked with beating whatever Benghazi bushes and dead horses remain, announced on July 30 that his committee’s first hearings will take place in September. If past is prologue, then Gowdy’s people will likely take advantage of the slow August news cycles and leak a few stripped-of-context tidbits to some bored and easily misled reporters. With the midterms bearing down, you’ll have all the necessary ingredients for yet more obsessive Benghazi “scandal” coverage.

It’s still not clear, though, what exactly anyone hopes to learn from Gowdy’s investigation, given that Benghazi has already been scrutinized several times over by several different congressional committees, all of which concluded that Benghazi was a tragedy, but there was no administration conspiracy, and no cover-up. And the day after Gowdy announced when his first hearings would be held, yet another committee reached the same conclusion.

On July 31, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence voted in favor of releasing a declassified version of its findings from its investigation into Benghazi. Almost immediately, the top-ranking Democrats on the committee started broadcasting the report’s conclusions. Ranking member Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger released a statement saying:

The report also shows that the process used to develop the talking points was flawed, but that the talking points reflected the conflicting intelligence assessments in the days immediately following the crisis. Finally, the report demonstrates that there was no illegal activity or illegal arms sales occurring at U.S. facilities in Benghazi. And there was absolutely no evidence, in documents or testimony, that the Intelligence Community’s assessments were politically motivated in any way...

http://www.salon.com/2014/08/04/trey_gowdys_benghazi_setback_new_humiliation_for_gops_scandal_hunter/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025335862

The Left’s Political Network, Exposed in One Chart

It quotes RWNJ Ted Cruz, also not beloved at DU:

http://dailysignal.com/2014/09/17/183-organizations-lefts-political-network-exposed-one-chart/

Did You Know? An Illegal Immigrant Lives in U.S. for 12.7 Years… and Other Interesting Factoids

This is not a Democratic Party position piece:

http://dailysignal.com/2014/09/17/know-illegal-immigrant-lives-u-s-12-7-years-interesting-factoids/

Bobby Jindal: How the ‘Radical Left’ Uses Energy Costs to Control Americans


Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal speaking at The Heritage Foundation to a group of reporters about his new energy plan.

Neither Jindal nor the Heritage Foundation are considered worthy here:

http://dailysignal.com/2014/09/17/bobby-jindal-radical-left-uses-energy-control-americans/

5 Key Points Marco Rubio Made in His Big Defense Speech Today

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., outlined his views on the role of America in the world, why we need American power, and his position on what…

Marco Rubio is likewise unpopular, like Gowdy. Except more so.

http://dailysignal.com/2014/09/17/5-key-points-marco-rubio-made-big-defense-speech-today/

Please give me a link about HRC shredding documents twenty years ago. You say you're going to vote for someone else if HRC is nominated. But this is 2014. Any picks for this year?

EDIT: I may have found your Bernie and Hillary reference. It doesn't say documents being shredded in 1994, but definitely doesn't invite anyone to vote Democratic:

http://my.firedoglake.com/ohiogringo/2013/11/13/the-impending-destruction-of-the-democratic-party/

To find that shredding in 1994 reference, I went to:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/clinton/etc/01301996.html

The interview is a wash, not a whitewash, but nothing is decided, despite the number of GOPers asking questions. But it has been a GOP boiler plate for twenty years now.

I want Bernie to run in the primaries to make other candidates take a stand one way or the other. I don't expect him to win, because of his age and disposition. Unfortunately, that is the case in American politics now.

I have trouble with believing Hillary will win, unless she has a ground game we don't see here. I don't even know if she will run. Bernie said on MTP that he would likely run as a Democrat in order to make use of their fifty state organization. I also doubt he can win.

Sherrod Brown is unknown, but might get Democratic Party support. Meanwhile, we have an election to win in less than two months. We are finishing the primaries in the Senate, HoR and state house races.

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He has been an IND since about 81 and don't believe he will switch to DEM, and CK_John Sep 2014 #1
That is simply untrue. 99Forever Sep 2014 #3
I don't think such a switch would cost him any of his current support. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Sep 2014 #4
I think his progressive base would support him regardless of the letter after his name thesquanderer Sep 2014 #8
I doubt there are any "anti-Sanders" folks here. JoePhilly Sep 2014 #2
I think they exist. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Sep 2014 #5
Of course you can be pro Hillary and not anti-Sanders thesquanderer Sep 2014 #6
I agree. I haven't see anyone here who dislikes Bernie Sanders wyldwolf Sep 2014 #7
So, who would you like to see run? thesquanderer Sep 2014 #9
oh, and I wasn't talking about whether people liked or disliked him thesquanderer Sep 2014 #10
I'm decidedly in Hillary's corner but welcome a Sanders run and would vote for him in a general. wyldwolf Sep 2014 #11
One thing which will halt his ability to become president his title of Independent Socialists. Thinkingabout Sep 2014 #12
There's are other threads about whether he can win... thesquanderer Sep 2014 #13
As I see it, if he should decide to run he will probably end up taking lots of heat as I stated on Thinkingabout Sep 2014 #14
Okay then to answer your question... thesquanderer Sep 2014 #16
I hear a lot about Hillary being too Wall Street friendly, yes she gives speeches to Wall Street Thinkingabout Sep 2014 #18
I agree... Can you give me a link so I can post this without a fuss? I don't think the media has freshwest Sep 2014 #32
Be glad to, I see her connection to Walmart and Goldmann Sachs posted with what appears to Thinkingabout Sep 2014 #39
WOW! I will be using that here for what it's worth. But will this get to women, in particular? freshwest Sep 2014 #40
I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm "anti-Hillary" but I do find many of her positions - especially nomorenomore08 Sep 2014 #21
I like him and can't stand her Boreal Sep 2014 #29
Interesting source material: freshwest Sep 2014 #33
I will vote for Hillary gwheezie Sep 2014 #15
If not Hillary gwheezie Sep 2014 #17
You are aware he is an independent correct? Agschmid Sep 2014 #19
If he wants the D after his name to be able to run as a D, it's easy to do. thesquanderer Sep 2014 #24
I think it makes a difference gwheezie Sep 2014 #26
I completely agree, it does make a difference. thesquanderer Sep 2014 #27
I hope he does gwheezie Sep 2014 #28
Pointing out that Sanders is unlikely to win, baldguy Sep 2014 #20
Convince you that he can win the primaries? thesquanderer Sep 2014 #22
1st he has to be a dem nt gwheezie Sep 2014 #23
See post 24 that I posted while you were posting 23. ;-) thesquanderer Sep 2014 #25
Except that each of them - including Dukakis - actually *DID* convince enough people. baldguy Sep 2014 #34
I was talking about which ones won in the general election. thesquanderer Sep 2014 #41
Who here has expressed anything ... NanceGreggs Sep 2014 #30
Answering your question thesquanderer Sep 2014 #36
Thank you for your civil ... NanceGreggs Sep 2014 #42
I agree with most of what you said thesquanderer Sep 2014 #43
Sadly ... NanceGreggs Sep 2014 #44
I like what you said! LynneSin Sep 2014 #38
I like both Schweitzer and O'Malley, personally (nt) Recursion Sep 2014 #31
I like Kirsten Gillibrand myself justiceischeap Sep 2014 #35
My only issue with Sanders is age. If that makes me ageist then so be it LynneSin Sep 2014 #37
I agree. LuvNewcastle Sep 2014 #45
Regardless of who Jamaal510 Sep 2014 #46
I'm not anti-Sanders, I just do not believe he would be capable of winning the GE MohRokTah Sep 2014 #47
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