Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN): Obama’s Handling Of Libya Is ‘Worse Than Watergate’

[TroyD]

This looks like it is going to be one of the main Republican attacks for the final month of the campaign.

************

Oct 1, 2012

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) joined the chorus of Republicans criticizing President Obama’s response to the violence in Libya on Monday, going so far as to suggest that the administration’s handling of the situation is worse than Watergate — the scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon:

BLACKBURN: I think this is an issue — Benghazi-gate is the right term for this. This is very, very serious, probably more serious than Watergate. And to call this a response to a video when it was obviously a terrorist attack — and when you read some of the documentation on this, and you know that there has been other sites and locations that have bind attack in Libya, when you know that the Libyan government felt there was something getting ready to transpire.

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/10/01/933261/republican-lawmaker-obamas-handling-of-libya-is-worse-than-watergate/

[BeyondGeography]

1. When you've got absolutely nothing to offer...

[Enrique]

2. good luck with that

the only way this investigation will have any credibility is if dems are involved. I hear people like Marsha Blackburn talking about it and I think she might as well not even bother.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Totally random

the rightwingers are officially out of ammo... including spit balls

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. Lunatic says something crazy

Who cares?

[Botany]

5. She is really dumb and just can do talking points

[dmosh42]

6. Another Bachman wannabe!

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Republicans are still trying to exonerate Nixon by finding a democrat who is/was

"worse than Nixon". They tried with Bill Clinton and they're back for a second bite of the apple with Obama.

[asjr]

8. Pompous ego-driven lecturer, not to mention liar, is

a blot on TN. Those who go along with her have no taste or judgment in them. Constant smirk on her face, I would love to see her voted out of our state. It would not surprise me to see her run for president in a few years. She is the female Romney.

[sofa king]

9. I am seeing an emerging pattern.

I am seeing lots of deeply conservative Members of Congress coming out and saying horribly uninformed things, as they cling ever more desperately to their tattered ideology. Some of them, like Blackburn and Akin, are second-stringers whose remarks are not usually reported nationwide.

I think these people are heavily insulated from reality as the rest of us know it. They have been working from bad information their entire lives, and are not accustomed to being questioned.

But the smart Republicans are all in the bomb-shelter, hoping they can ride out this November. So it is the conservative idiots who trundle forth and say stupid things.

Television news has sunk so low that only those hopelessly lost to us dare to inform themselves from it. I think at this point, everyone else has learned to look to the Internet for better information than the television media supplies.

Then the conservative idiots wander out and say hopelessly ignorant things, and find themselves surprised when they are called out for it.

The truth is winning, finally, for the moment.

[Bake]

10. That's because Rethugs don't see anything wrong with Nixon and Watergate.

So sure, to them, it's worse.

BAke

[bamacrat]

11. But had it been a Dem, Watergate would still be talked about.

[SoapBox]

12. Is that the best "zinger" ya got, Marsha, Marsha, Marsha?

...you're just another, in a long line of Repukes and Bagger idiots that got nuth'n.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

13. Worse than Watergate....

I'm glad that Republicans now agree that Watergate is the benchmark by which all future political scandals should be measured. And I find it laughable that if Bo pees on the rug in the East Wing, Republicans immedicately claim that it (or any other action by the Obama Administration) should be compared to THEIR scandal, the one perpetrated by a REPUBLICAN president. And I find it gratifying that not one single American citizen (outside of Mississippi) believes that anything that has happened since Watergate is actually WORSE THAN Watergate.

Unless you include the Reagan Administration's collaboration with terrorists, while selling military-grade weaponry to a pack of drug-smuggling guerillas in Central America. Or unless you include the Bush Administration's lying it's way into two wars to cover for their criminally negligent security measures taken before 9/11.

But Clinton got a blow-job, of course. And blow-jobs are, as we all know, the WORST THING EVER.

[Jennicut]

15. Perfectly put. Seems to me it is mostly Republicans that have such

an outright abuse of Presidential power.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

16. But Clinton corrupted our children and given them permission to do it!!!!

Won't somebody think about the children?!!!!!!!!!!



or so I remember from that time period.

I guess that it's good that all that time was spent going after Clinton and not tracking down OBL and Al-Queda.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

17. Because if it weren't for Bill Clinton...

Nobody would EVER want to get a blow job. He sort of invented it, I think.

[Zoeisright]

14. Fuck off, Blackhead.

And by the way, you need help from a makeup artist. That kohl around your eyes makes you look really old.

[NightOwwl]

18. Another day, another outlandish statement.

I think even Fox viewers are getting bored with this failed strategy.

And btw Ms. Blackburn, ten years ago there were lots of warnings that an attack on American soil was going to transpire. Where were the criticisms then?

[Efilroft Sul]

19. Wow. It took Republicans until 2012 to be concerned about Americans dying in the Middle East.

Welcome to where liberals all around the world were in 2002, in the run-up to your war of choice in Iraq.