Riddick,
You bring up a good point - natch.
I am going out on a limb here but it seems to me the R's leave easer than the D's - I think how difficult it was to get Wiener out, now way Clinton was going to go and I review the R's and they usually fess up or not - but they go. Again I am out on a limb and those more knowledgeable and eloquent can find me incorrect perhaps.
I don't think our Secretary of State will be testifying - I think there is a quid pro quo for Hillary as she fought the good fight to the end and then cooperated with the President and the D party and I think they are going to pay her back for 2016 and testifying would open her up to too much for a 2016 race.
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SquidInk wrote: I disagree with you.
I say it's never ok.
I also say Obama's team isn't doing anything different than your team does.
My team? I'm just pointing out that "my team" would be getting it's ass handed to them if it was "my team". The hearings would be on CSPAN. As they should be. No matter what team it is. But "my team" has a different set of rules i guess.
Put in a prison cell, but one time he could-a been The champion of the world.
Right is right, wrong is wrong... there shouldn't be any disagreement, should there - Though as it is, there still may be depending on the extent of one's stake in the outcome and who-all's holding the high cards at any particular stage of the ongoing DC game eh?
The way I look at it, the way Washington politics is at this point, neither side is terribly interested in playing "according to Hoyle". That said, even when players at the table are largely enclined to bend or break rules at their choosing, all concerned strive to come out of any deal with the "upper hand".
Right now, the White House and one house of Congress are under Democratic control. If they didn't hold the Senate, it'd be tougher for the administration to try to bluff their way out of any bad situation.
Provided their "poker face" strategy succeeds on Benghazi, even though the "balance of power" status-quo between the Congress and the President hasn't changed, having obtained a second term for himself as he has, going forward there IS a definite advantage to be found in NOT needing to be concerned about re-election.
There's nothing like having the deck stacked in one's favor... and so much as it all might be compared to a pair of "Southern Gentlemen" playing poker on a riverboat, I'd say more than not we're apt to see some faces turn REALLY red the next four years, knowhutImean...!
The way I look at it, the way Washington politics is at this point, neither side is terribly interested in playing "according to Hoyle". That said, even when players at the table are largely enclined to bend or break rules at their choosing, all concerned strive to come out of any deal with the "upper hand".
Right now, the White House and one house of Congress are under Democratic control. If they didn't hold the Senate, it'd be tougher for the administration to try to bluff their way out of any bad situation.
Provided their "poker face" strategy succeeds on Benghazi, even though the "balance of power" status-quo between the Congress and the President hasn't changed, having obtained a second term for himself as he has, going forward there IS a definite advantage to be found in NOT needing to be concerned about re-election.
There's nothing like having the deck stacked in one's favor... and so much as it all might be compared to a pair of "Southern Gentlemen" playing poker on a riverboat, I'd say more than not we're apt to see some faces turn REALLY red the next four years, knowhutImean...!
Side Note
I'm a bit behind the posts, but in reference to Squids post #9. I had forgotten about Haig. He was a show stopper(Haig) loved the limelight, I remember when Reagan was shot (1981), he was Reagan's Secretary of State and he came on TV and said he was in charge of the country. Bush Sr. was on a plane somewhere. He looked like the happiest man alive. Ha! I found this article, he really was an interesting personality. In the link that Squid posted it said Haig would not waken the president.
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500164_162-287292.html
Carry On...........
I'm a bit behind the posts, but in reference to Squids post #9. I had forgotten about Haig. He was a show stopper(Haig) loved the limelight, I remember when Reagan was shot (1981), he was Reagan's Secretary of State and he came on TV and said he was in charge of the country. Bush Sr. was on a plane somewhere. He looked like the happiest man alive. Ha! I found this article, he really was an interesting personality. In the link that Squid posted it said Haig would not waken the president.
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500164_162-287292.html
Carry On...........
GEEzus H! What's going on?! How can this happen to someone in high office?
- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who canceled an overseas trip last weekend because of illness, suffered a concussion after fainting due to dehydration, prompting the postponement of her scheduled congressional testimony on the attack on a U.S. mission in Libya, officials said on Saturday.
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She has maintained a punishing schedule in her final weeks as the top U.S. diplomat, a position she intends to leave toward the end of January when U.S. President Barack Obama is sworn in for a second term.
Clinton had been expected to testify on December 20 before the House of Representatives and Senate foreign affairs committees on a report on the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans and raised questions about security at far-flung posts.
Jodi Seth, a spokeswoman for Senate Foreign Relations Committee head John Kerry, said that given her condition, Clinton's testimony would be postponed, but did not say until when. Seth said the planned hearings would be held with other senior officials appearing in Clinton's place.
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Clinton has appointed a special panel known as an accountability review board to assess both the incident and the official response to it.
The board's report, which will contain both classified and unclassified sections, is expected to be complete next week and Clinton has promised to be as transparent as possible with Congress in sharing its findings.
Full story at reuters.com
I read 'Jodi Seth' as 'Jedi Sloth'. 
I know Obama is a huge problem. I just want to kick around the concept that Obama is not the root cause of what is destroying us.
Yep, that's a fair statement.Diogenes wrote: Squid,
In all fairness I do think there are more than a few of us on this board who are pretty much equal opportunity irrespective of the "team".
I know Obama is a huge problem. I just want to kick around the concept that Obama is not the root cause of what is destroying us.
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http://haydenaube.deviantart.com/art/Je ... -274759255SquidInk wrote: I read 'Jodi Seth' as 'Jedi Sloth'.
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