If Cochran doesn't run, probably likely rep?

I can't see how this is anything but safe Rep.

A useful story from Politico. Wow.

Either 1 or 5.

Anschauen is what I learned in German class.

The attachment of many white Americans to the concept is... er... well...

I'm so happy the Welsh have perfected the ideal of a raceless society.

The Republican attempts to tar this IRS effort as a presidential scandal are facing some new obstacles.


http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-15/irs-sent-same-letter-to-democrats-that-fed-tea-party-row.html

People are upset with Obama because of his use of a Marine holding an umbrella.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-puts-marines-on-umbrella-duty-irking-conservatives/2013/05/17/cad75a5a-bf0f-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html

Why are we in denial about this? CBS already reported it. And we know the White House didn't doctor the e-mails, because GOP officials issued an interim report in April that used the White House version - before coming up with the doctored version more recently.

Well, if CBS reported it, it must be true!

You believed ABC for the original (doctored) emails but are now skeptical about CBS debunking them?

I have more confidence in Bushie's weight loss plans.

Phil, now that the scandal is about how Republicans edited/changed emails to make a point or cover up, do you still have questions and a desire to unearth the truth about why they did what they did, who knew about it, and when?

Let us know, thx

Phil...

The "email-changing" myth has been debunked....

http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/14/cnn-exclusive-white-house-email-contradicts-benghazi-leaks/

Ok but it wasn't being classified as a planned terrorist attack; it was still being blamed on a spontaneous protest in response to a movie.

Now the story is that the protests in Cairo over the movie spawned the attack/"protest" in Benghazi. What I want to know is how did that talking point receive preference over the word of the second ranking diplomat in Libya at the time? This went on for hours. Several requests for assistance were denied. Was this Special Ops team really assembled and ready to go only for the commander to be told to stand down? Unless Hicks is blatantly lying, two requests were made before the fatal 5 AM attack. That's a full seven hours after this all began. The Pentagon said there wasn't a stand down order...then they said they're looking into the incident. Senior administration officials obviously knew what was going on throughout that night so why the hell did they conclude after everything that went down that this was a "spontaneous protest?"

The action and more importantly the inaction of that night need to be investigated further because there was clearly some major screw ups.

Ok, Phil, so the issue all boils down to whether and why Obama's administration was going to use the magic word "terrorism" or not?

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ap-exclusive-health-reforms-penalize-some-indians.php

Interesting.

I'm not attacking your Indian heritage.  But it's a false dilemma to say that your only options are Indian healthcare or rob your parents by making them pay for your healthcare.

You know, until PPACA comes fully on line, it CAN be really hard to get health care. Any job he could get probably wouldn't offer it.

I put the odds of impeachment at at least 50/50. Given that even this will lose its charm after a while:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/us/politics/house-republicans-to-vote-again-on-repealing-health-care.html?hp

Here's a question I saw posted. Should the women be prosecuted for murder, too? Not in terms of the current law, but as a matter of how the law should be?

I love this site for threads like this.

"Going negative" is a way of life for Christie. He probably doesn't even think of it as a tactic.

You don't have to have any seminary education, although that never hurts, you have to have a confirmed calling to preach the Gospel and have to be licensed by the local body. 

How does someone confirm a calling?

See, this is why it's hard to be a good sport about the Benghazi hearings.

[Rick Santorum was worst US senator of not just my home state of PA, but America history.]

Rick Santorum was worst US senator of not just my home state of PA, but America history.

Rick Santorum is not for "small limited government".  At least Rand Paul didn't vote for the Patriot Act, No Child Left Behind, the Iraq War, DOMA, etc.

Good God how could any one vote for just a bigoted, racist, homophobic, sexist person like Santorum is beyond me.

I think that may be a bit of an overreaction there's been corruption, intense racism, and people alot more radical then Rick Santorum who have served throughout the 267 years of our nations history.

Yeah, I don't have a lot of respect for Rick Santorum, but he was no Thaddeus Bilbo at least.

Loads of people find gays icky and don't want it in their family, and lack empathy for gays, and the fact that overlaps with religious belief is convenient.

Torie, if you give me Elijah Cummings I will ask you to comment on Bob Corker's comments last week to the House as they consider additional hearings.

Your post confuses me. Sorry. Please elaborate.

Sure. Was just going to find the link.

http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/05/08/18125854-i-feel-like-i-know-what-happened-in-benghazi

Ignore the Maddow framing and just read the quote.

At some point further hearings are like that 29th, 30th, or 31st House vote to repeal Obamacare. It feels good and excites the base. But if you ask, what does this accomplish, what do we hope to learn, that we haven't done already, we can disagree on the cost-benefit analysis. Meanwhile, Republicans are CLEARLY flogging this as a partisan issue for fundraising and getting people good and angry outside of any arguments about state dept behavior, so I can't view this as a pure good government play. How many times has Lindsay Graham been on TV to talk about this?

Torie, if you give me Elijah Cummings I will ask you to comment on Bob Corker's comments last week to the House as they consider additional hearings.

Jared, welcome to the forum!

Phil, I won't be baited into a personal 1:1 with you by personal attacks. Let's stick to the topic, i.e. why Benghazi is a big nothingburger. There's more on the other thread.