Report Says GOP Aides Are Beginning to Mock House Republicans’ Benghazi Accusations as ‘Crazy’

[Galraedia]

Source: DeadState

In an interesting report from Roll Call, GOP aides are apparently criticizing House Republicans, slamming their rhetoric in regards to the Obama administration’s handling of the attacks in Benghazi last year. The aides are arguing that the Party needs to change its focus to more substantive issues.

According to the report, Republican aides are saying the GOP is getting sidetracked chasing unsubstantiated accusations.

“We have got to get past that and figure out what are we going to do going forward,” a GOP aide told Roll Call. “Some of the accusations, I mean you wouldn’t believe some of this stuff. It’s just — I mean, you’ve got to be on Mars to come up with some of this stuff.” Another aide slammed the idea that military forces weren’t properly deployed during the night of the attacks:

“There are some real issues and then there is just some crazy stuff,” the senior House GOP aide said. “The crazy stuff is, you know, the airman in Ramstein [Air Base, Germany,] that knew that the Predator [drone] was armed. There are no armed Predators in the region there. The [status of forces agreement] does not allow us to fly them armed, and everybody knows it.”

Read more: http://deadstate.org/report-says-gop-aides-are-beginning-to-mock-house-republicans-benghazi-accusations-as-crazy/

[Ash_F]

1. They could leave the GOP

“We have got to get past that and figure out what are we going to do going forward,”

Leave? Just a thought.

[1ProudAtheist]

2. Facts Don't Mean A Thing

To dogs howling at the man in the moon.

[Cha]

3. Tragic.. they're all drinking the same

koolaid.

[Kingofalldems]

4. Never trust a republican.

[high density]

5. Since when do the Republicans care about substantive issues?

People voting for them apparently don't care about any substantive issues.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. The phrase they're looking for is 'swivel-eyed loons'

See http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/may/19/tory-chairman-feldman-swivel-eyed-loons

[Tarheel_Dem]

7. Oh so now they want to "get past that and figure out what are we going to do going forward"?

Haven't common sense Democrats been saying this from the beginning? Now that their agenda & dirty tricks have been exposed, they want to move on? Nothing to see here. Un-friggin-believable.

[Berlum]

8. They know what BS their RepuliMasters are slinging at America

so dark to lie lie lie...

[Thinkingabout]

9. It would be a good time to have Congress members show they are truly professional or the lack of

will show they are unable to govern and perhaps their numbers will decrease and this might get their attention.

[fayhunter]

10. I'm sure they've been doing that from the start. nt

[sheshe2]

11. K&R

[ErikJ]

12. What are GOP "AIDES"??

[MannyGoldstein]

13. They need to hire people who know how to read.

Some can even spell.

Math isn't allowed, of course.

[ErikJ]

14. Thanks, now I remember. Aides to read all the bills like Obamacare for them.

Wow, seems like a good way to lose your job though. Hopefully they are doing it anonymously.

[MADem]

16. Chiefs of staff for legislators, and personnel who work in the legislator's office and

are responsible for a specific area of expertise. Many Senators, for example, have a military aide who is usually former or retired military and knows his or her way around subject matter specifics.

Some of the comments sound like they came from military aides, like the Predator comment.

[Thor_MN]

15. “We have got to get past that and figure out what are we going to do going forward,”

I think I read an article where that exact quote was discovered etched into sandstone, by a dinosaur claw....