Hillary Clinton’s Senate testimony, open thread. Which, at this point, it doesn’t much matter what she says. We’re just thankful that she finally has here health!
Anyway, I would make this a drinking game — one shot of whatever it is they drink in Benghazi to mask the pain for each lie a recuperated and (finally) well-prepped Ms Clinton tells — but then I’d probably be booked on accessory to a hundred or so alcohol-related murders. And Jim Jones I ain’t.
That’s Obama’s job these days. Only, you know. Without the personal commitment.
My liver won’t be able to handle it.
Addressing Sen. Johnson right now she’s doing the worst lying I’ve heard her commit today. Hiding behind ‘wounded’ and dead.
she looks like a leprechaun where’s mr. buttons
Epic FAIL as Hil raises her voice at Senator Johnson.
“What difference does it make (paraphrase) who killed our Ambassador?!”
Also, fake choking up about the dead on display at Andrews.
Better that she hide behind them than stand before them. These people have neither honor nor shame.
Just remember, no one was even fired for this man caused disaster that was a follow on of the kinetic military action in Libya.
Maybe these State Dept. folks are some true believers, but I wouldn’t want to have to rely on the current administration for my safety if I was posted at some embassy.
“We were clear eyed about the dangers…”
So, Stevens et al were expendable, then?
We witness the majority engage in making perfect cover for the administration with their every question and timewasting discourse. This is not the behavior of a co-equal branch asserting its power to get to the bottom of deep failures on the part of the executive, but collusion in maintaining an illusion of competence where there is little competence.
“We’ve got a success story in Somalia…”
o_0
Oh, Maverick is on the case. Great.
Boom! “I catagorically reject your answer.” Go John.
Talking points. Blaming Congress. Same, same.
Maverick gave her quite a tongue lashing…and got exactly nothing out of her.
She just quoted the RSO to the effect that the attack was unprecedented, then turned around immediately to say the attacks was unexpected when that very same RSO testified he totally expected that attack, which was why he had declared his hair on fire to get more security. What could be more characteristic of Obazmian statesmanship than this sort of fraud?
She’s the same way with Bill. Hence the cigars.
What difference does it make?
Chris Stevens’ family might want to know, “What difference?”
Srsly?
Apparently she has no aspirations for 2016.
she doesn’t look all that presidential really sitting there in her lucky charms suit
but I think it’s extremely likely she’s our next one
the cnn propaganda sluts have what we call “early buy-in”
and look what they did for food stamp
It’s no wonder Thomas Jefferson thought occasional sanguinary measures would serve to remind the oligarchs what is what, and who who.
Apparently she has no aspirations for 2016.
You say that as though this will be reported in any detail, or in any way that doesn’t make Hillary into Saint Hillary. I believe that yo are incorrect.
this Rand Paul earns every cent of his paycheck
Rand Paul says he would have fired her.
“Responsibility begins just below me.”
Rand Paul spooked her with that question about Turkey. She was totally caught flat-footed that he knew about that.
What, after all, is the appropriate treatment of people undertaking a political coup once that coup is discovered, exposed to public view? Celebrate their cleverness? Reward them with permanent sinecures in government? Make them comfortable in luxurious vacation environments?
Or line them up against a wall?
I like her “Honorable” spinster’s spectacles. It’s the first time I’ve seen her in them.
They’re a dare. As in “Rand, you wouldn’t punch a girl with glasses, would you?”
I don’t think she cares for Susan Rice at all. Just tossed her to the committee as a snack.
It won’t be enough. The beast is hungry.
The Mission Statement of the Ds seems to be that “It’s still all Bush’s fault.”
That’s the public mission statement leigh. The private mission statement is “l’audace, encore de l’audace, et toujours de l’audace“, or in English, “lie, lie, lie, and evermore lie”.
Oh, c’est vrai sdferr.
Yes, but have the cankles testified? I think they know something.
How Les Misérables of them all! Will the Obamas’ actually sing or will they do it like Beyonce did.
“whatever it is they drink in Benghazi”
Ummm… that would be kafe, but you go ahead with your bad self.
you want something to quench your thirst
freshenupfreshenupfreshenup
benghazi punch!
The House committee hearings are just getting underway.
Eliot Engel is offering Clinton and the Obazma administration all the cover he can muster. Has he already come out in support of Hagel’s nomination to SecDef?
Probably. He’s a putz.
Hillary has a whole battalion of strawmen there that she keeps throwing around. It’s a good thing the House is non-smoking now.
whoof, does Hillary ever have a permanent smug writ large on her hideous gob.
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and cankled legs of stone
Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a raveled pantsuit lies, alone,
Its chemic hue, and waist of full expand,
Affirm its owner had no fashion sense
What yet survives, stamped on these tacky things,
The cheeks that moved them and the hose immense:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Hillary, queen of queens:
Look on my pants, ye Mighty, and beware!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that cackling wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Running the risk of committing to an oxymoron SBP, that’s a pretty piece of work you got right there.
Thanks!
Outstanding, Spies. Bravo.
My gawd. All of this slobbering over the cankled one by the Ds is going to make me hurl.
Out and out foreshadowing of hopes and dreams of Madame President by one of the junior congresscritters from Californistan.
Thanks, leigh.
Shelley would probably not approve, though. :-)
Sorry that this is a long quote. I just think it should be here in this thread. Breathtaking, and so reminiscent of the old 90s. Leopards, spots, etc.
Grabbed from TOM who got it from the transcript.
The State Dept. didn’t want to interfere with an FBI investigation of an attack on a CIA outpost on foreign soil.
The only appropriate response from SEN. JOHNSON would have been “are you people out of your motherfucking minds?”
who gives a shit about four dead state department flunkies
my heart will go the fuck on
some people watch way way way too much cable news
yes the use of blunt language would shake up the proggs. i would only add “stupid proggtard mf minds”.
get proggtard out there.
you’re not allowed to say “tard” anymore
the cnn propaganda sluts have been very clear on the matter
Those people at that CNN link are fucking retarded.
i think that word activates the filter at patterico’s to where your comment won’t appear
but maybe proggtard or lifeytard would get through
I never use those ones though
they’re disrespectful
Let’s just start calling shit “intellectually disabled” and then when they decide that is offensive and pick something else we can start in on that.
Just keep making them come up with new terms and see how ridiculous they can get.
lmao.
I wondered why you never called anybody a cumslutard or hoochtard, now I know.
I thought we all decided to dispense with the pleasantries and cut straight to stereotyping and insults?
I hate it when a blind person is called “sight-challenged”. Wouldn’t that imply he’s not trying hard enough?
I learned that hearing impaired is insulting the other day. Deef is going to have to be my go-to.
That’s what my dad calls it. Mostly when being asked for money…
none of my best friends are blind or deaf and I don’t think it’s me
I think it’s cause they’re very cliquish
Retard means slow. It isn’t profanity, its a real word. It means slow.
It means the same thing as intellecually challenged or disabled or whatever.
You can call them whatever you want, they are still retarded. And its not my fault.
we can all be retarded sometimes just like we can all be blind that’s why they’re such durable words
How’s about crippled? Is that bad, too? Handicapped is sort of like saying “that little kid over there”. Only the little kid is on crutches or in a wheelchair.
How about if you just have really bad arthritis like my mom? She says she’s crippled.
Can you still call people old?
Cause&Effect meets Effect&Cause
call them proggtards because it makes the stupid react
ERIC BURDON & THE ANIMALS- “SKY PILOT”
with a sister with downs syndrome, proggtards are way stupider then she.
That poor excuse for a fact finding thang with Clinton was obscene. I mean, when the Democrats on the panel were eating tossed salad it made me queasy, but I expected that.
When Maverick says “we thank you for your outstanding and dedicated service to this nation, and we’re all proud of you. All over the world where I travel, you are viewed with admiration and respect”, I thought things that are probably illegal to post here.
I swear, our political class is more needful of adoration than any Hollywood diva. That was no inquiry, it was a fucking arse kissing spectacle worthy of an awards show.
It’s going to take revolution to kill the corruption of DC.
I was told that the expression “lame” was insulting by one of the instructors in my “preparing future faculty” class.
I never did become faculty.
see i can see my sister’s barriers to entry. proggtards not so much. cultists are like that.
Did all of the members of the panel spend at least half of their five minutes making a speech, or just the few I saw clips of?
The State Department lied to us for weeks. Put a film maker in prison. Still refuse to accept any consequences for failure (unless you count giving some underlings a paid vacation and new job assignment as justice). And this is someone we’re all proud of?
We are just spectators and subjects of the royal court anymore.
Does mustard get through the filter? How about bastard?
Did all of the members of the panel spend at least half of their five minutes making a speech, or just the few I saw clips of?
None that I saw in the House committee — and I think I saw almost all of the Republican members there — were focused exclusively on eliciting answers Bmoe. I don’t believe a single Democrat asked a question worth the bother of the breath. A few of the Republicans managed to ask one question half-worth the candle, but none tracked to further disclosures. The only thing they could reasonably be credited with was providing Mrs. Clinton opportunity after opportunity to demonstrate her own version of a dullard’s crude arrogance. She spits on the likes of us, and isn’t shy to show it.
Reason is all a flutter about Rand Paul seeming to use the opportunity to unofficially start his bid for President in ’16.
I was pretty pissed that he didn’t do that in a presser afterwards and instead spent three of his five minutes grandstanding then asked a totally extraneous question that he knew he wouldn’t get an answer for.
The whole bunch needs to go.
randpaul less proggtard
i thought his “greatest tragedy since 9/11” thing he kept repeating was something an idiot dipstick might say if they’d eaten too much sugared cereal for breakfast and were suffering a post-sugar high crash
plus also they were, you know, idiot dipsticks
Moving arms to Turkey Paul? Are you kidding me? How about Syria dumbass?! You know, where 70,000 people have died in the last 10 months? And where the late ambassador Stevens was procuring arms for, from the ones we gave to Libyan Muslims?
Clinton almost giggled when she heard “Turkey”, ya retard…
randpaul start with the rose law firms files and move forward to more lies
levin gave randpaul time on his show tonight. what a bunch of asshats. and rubeio too. go away gop
this idea that we can just rifle through the congresswhore trash for a 2016 nominee is deeply deeply silly
yeah I know Romney sucked ass and Rick Perry ended up being a fruit loop and porky porky chris christie would be a fiasco but a credible Team R nominee really does need to be able to show they’re actually capable of governing something
McCain should be Team R’s last wacky experiment with nominating people with no executive experience I think
It’s a lessons learned thing.
How I wish that fruit loop Rick Perry was president right now!
true dat
another proggtard
Jennifer Rubin
Watch your language
How come we can’t get a Republican to introduce legislation making “right to carry” a federal law, instead of only having 39 states with RTC?
Can’t we have ANY pushback!?
that just reads like she was really really desperate for content today
what’s wrong with letting states decide Mr. lee?
Also, “right to work”? Do we HAVE to always play defense, ya pussies?
Because of the Constitutional inalienable rights? Same reason we don’t let states decide if they want slaves…
she be gop bitch
“They’re a dare. As in “Rand, you wouldn’t punch a girl with glasses, would you?”
ZZZactly what I was thinking there, steveaz
13 or 14 amendment no?
given combat stuff i’d fuckin’ hit a grrrrl with glasses in a nyc minute
Be sure you know what “right to carry” means. Basically, it means the right to carry is assumed, and there must be a reason to deny it. Places like California, that are “shall issue” states, assume you don’t have the right, and you must give acceptable cause to carry.
Black/white, up/down, all of that…
but I don’t care if people in new york are treated like helpless retards
I tend to treat a lot of them that way myself honestly
I stopped at the dauphin island post office this year to mail monies to my friend in the rockaways what lost his whole house and everything in it to sandy’s fury
he hadn’t even loaded up the car they evacuated in but for a couple changes of clothes
he lived right on the beach and a hurricane was coming – it was all over the news!
hello clue phone is ringing pick up dipshit
but God love em they just don’t know any better
and I didn’t even get to see any dauphins
hah! that’s my dauphin island joke
Yeah, lately I’ve noticed a definite lack of empathy for your fellow travelers from you. Remember, Obama only got 51% of the vote, and even in New York not everyone is a commie. We all deserve our God given rights.
i love New York outside the city
i even love the city I just feel bad contributing to it because it’s a fascist bloombergian union whore dystopia where the parts you don’t ever see are genuinely terrifying and unimaginably bleak, not unlike chicago
or new orleans
but no I am not my brother’s keeper and very very little of what is happening in this deeply fucked up embarassingly failshit little country what has become so very very contemptuous of liberty is really my problem
I gots to take care of me and mine, as do we all
*embarrassingly*
Lee, honey. You need to move outta there.
also people really need to more aggressively confront the cable news fallacy where just because shit is on cable news you have to give a good goddamn about it
Lance Armstrong? Really?
Teo whatever?
School shootings in a faraway rather esoteric little state I never been to yet even?
My heart will go the fuck on.
happy, I believe you have your crabby pants on today.
(Today?!)
Well, I guess Thomas Merton was all confused about you.
i ate a lot of chocolate today that always puts me in a bad way once I get home
I was being generous, Patrick.
Island Happyfeets!
Thomas Merton!
he looks like a neat little guy on wikipedia but I have no idea who he is really
oh.
Islands!
one of my stories i loved when I was little ended like this
I always fancied I’d say yes too.
But nobody ever asked.
I know leigh. Moving is problematic though. Plus, I hate to retreat. Like the old cigarette ad said, I’d rather fight than switch. If and when the central valley turns blue, I’ll definitely leave.
That would be Thomas Merton of “no man is an island” fame. Sorry, I thought that would pop up front and center on google…
yup I finally got it
i love islands I went to every one I could… Presque Isle was the most melancholy it’s a summer place and the wind was biting cold but with little effort you could see all the memories – decades and decades – of real normal very middle-class-at-best people’s happy summer family weekends even though nobody was there except for this one guy pretending to do cross country skiing except with roller skates
it was like walking into Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?
Don’t think of it as a retreat, Lee. It’s a strategic chess move so that you and the missus can enjoy life a little more. Land is cheap further east and so are homes.
The kids are young. They can come visit you on your ranchette.
Wake up, we’re lost in space and the earth is our home.
that’s a nice song I never done the Steve Miller thing in a big way yet
But leigh, it’s so pretty where I am! I’m hoping for a grandkid soon (if my lazy son would take care of bidnez), we have no debt and live a simple life in the hills, totally uninteresting to the powers that be. Life is good, frankly, and they will have to try harder to push me out.
Perhaps one day I will show up at your house* with ATF hot on my heels, we’ll see.
*You invited me once, don’t forget.
They are not afraid to flaunt the stupid in public, in print.
Steve Miller was a favorite of mine in HS, back in the late 70’s. Back in the atomic days…
Thanks, I dug out “Sailor” to listen to.
Gangster of Love…
“Dime a Dance Romance” is a favorite but I can’t find a Youtube of it.
So how about some Miller & McCartney.