It's amazing how a people who can see no error in the Iraq war can be so purely self-righteous here. But that's the beauty of Partisan politics, I guess.
Conservatives suffer from incredible cognitive dissonance.
"Smaller government! Less spending!" "Increase military spending!" "Increase spending on border security!" "Increase spending on Law Enforcement and prisons!"
And an update (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/barbara-boxers-claim-that-gop-budgets-hampered-benghazi-security/2013/05/15/d1e295cc-bdb0-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html).
And an update (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/some-question-whether-ap-leak-on-al-qaeda-plot-put-us-at-risk/2013/05/15/47003ed4-bd77-11e2-89c9-3be8095fe767_story_1.html).
It's not. This is the link I meant to post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/barbara-boxers-claim-that-gop-budgets-hampered-benghazi-security/2013/05/15/d1e295cc-bdb0-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html).
Allow me to predict the response from The Usual Suspects here:
"They wouldn't have spent that money on embassy security, AND this was deliberately allowed to happen actively so maybe they would have spent the money other places but this would have happened anyway, AND they're so incompetent that this would have happened anyway, AND Obama is still black therefore it is his fault, AND my name is Jeff and I am a giant tool."
I know facts are inconvenient things, but... (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/some-question-whether-ap-leak-on-al-qaeda-plot-put-us-at-risk/2013/05/15/47003ed4-bd77-11e2-89c9-3be8095fe767_story_1.html)
This is what I meant to link (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/barbara-boxers-claim-that-gop-budgets-hampered-benghazi-security/2013/05/15/d1e295cc-bdb0-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_blog.html).
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Date: 2013-05-11 03:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-11 10:11 am (UTC)"Smaller government! Less spending!"
"Increase military spending!"
"Increase spending on border security!"
"Increase spending on Law Enforcement and prisons!"
shit like that.
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Date: 2013-05-11 10:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-11 03:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-11 12:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-11 03:29 pm (UTC)dude cuts her off on first response she gives, then he doesnt like her second answer so he acts like she didnt say it/is simply wrong.
cherry pick harder.
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Date: 2013-05-16 11:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-11 03:51 pm (UTC)i guess the whole Iran/Contra thing was done by elves and fairies.
even for you, Jeff, this is reaching.
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Date: 2013-05-17 12:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-11 05:01 pm (UTC)The thought occurs to me that "scandals" like these are the political equivalent of using child soldiers in battle.
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Date: 2013-05-11 05:42 pm (UTC)"They wouldn't have spent that money on embassy security, AND this was deliberately allowed to happen actively so maybe they would have spent the money other places but this would have happened anyway, AND they're so incompetent that this would have happened anyway, AND Obama is still black therefore it is his fault, AND my name is Jeff and I am a giant tool."
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Date: 2013-05-17 04:58 am (UTC)no subject
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