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Republicans expect Clinton’s clarity on Benghazi
Washington Times, by Shaun Waterman and Guy Taylor
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 1/21/2013 10:17:05 PM
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| Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton likely will face tough questions about the deadly Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya — including how the U.S. ambassador went missing for several hours during the assault — when she meets Wednesday with the House and Senate foreign affairs committees. The appearance, likely to be her last before Congress, will cap her time as secretary of state by revisiting one of the most bitterly contested and controversial episodes of her tenure
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Scribelus, 1/21/2013 10:25:17 PM (No. 9131354)
Her Fraudulency will likely succumb to the vapors, and be excused until 2014, sometime.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
heartsurgeon, 1/21/2013 10:31:01 PM (No. 9131362)
"Republicans expect Clinton’s clarity on Benghazi"
this is a joke, right?
have we already forgotten this article?
"Essay: Blizzard of Lies By WILLIAM SAFIRE Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady -- a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation -- is a congenital liar."
clarity? not from Hillary.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Scottyboy, 1/21/2013 10:31:31 PM (No. 9131363)
This is going to be America´s last shot at this corrupt and incompetent pig until the ´16 campaign. She has a four decade history of scandal for which she has NEVER had to answer. This was a cover- up of the first order and if the Repubs. Want to see this leftist slug and her sex pervert criminal husband follow the destructive ba$tard now in office, all they have to do is play kissy face with Madam. If she is not taken out now she gets a free ride to 2016.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Pearson365, 1/21/2013 10:51:33 PM (No. 9131394)
Poster 2, Heart Surgeon, thank you for posting the congenital liar piece. While an apt description, it didn´t stop Hillary as senator, an almost presidential candidate or as SoS. This is because she is a progressive Dem, and absolutely nothing stops a progressive Dem other than another progressive Dem.
However, if HRC is congenital, then her mate must be a genital liar. "I did not have sex with that woman."
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 1/21/2013 11:06:37 PM (No. 9131412)
"I don´t recall." Doesn´t get any clearer than that!
/s off/
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
southron, 1/21/2013 11:10:41 PM (No. 9131422)
I wish I wasn´t so cynical about this - don´t expect Republicans to be aggressive and don´t expect Hillary to be honest - the whole thing will just blow over - Ho. Hum.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
horacer, 1/21/2013 11:15:17 PM (No. 9131430)
Neither side really wants the whole truth to come out. Obama has made the world a very dangerous place.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Crosscut, 1/21/2013 11:30:48 PM (No. 9131451)
This is a waste of taxpayer´s money if there are no indictments, firings or resignations coming out of this. If the Republicans are clever and ruthless enough this could be an opportunity to take her out as far as any 2016 aspirations she may possess.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Ida Lil, 1/22/2013 12:18:37 AM (No. 9131486)
Hillary will do a pathetic tap dance for the committee and will exit the old stage left into oblivion. She will not be the 2016 nominee unless she can find an expert black face artist and become a male figure while losing 25 years off her resume´. If she doesn´t come clean it will make my sister weep because she expects saint Hillary to blow the whistle this week and allow us to wave Obe bye bye.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Dems R Dumm, 1/22/2013 1:32:11 AM (No. 9131511)
I won´t be surprised if she claims some sort of memory loss related to her ´concussion´.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
steveW, 1/22/2013 1:52:11 AM (No. 9131522)
The smartest woman in the world will appear in a stainless blue dress, preach in a southern drawl about the vast rightwing conspiracy, then answer every question with "I don´t recall" while guzzling her favorite beer. Being a Clinton, the last thing to expect from her is the truth.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Pinons, 1/22/2013 2:06:16 AM (No. 9131527)
The fog of blood clots!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Spidey, 1/22/2013 4:17:22 AM (No. 9131569)
There is a certain entertainment value to watching these people lie and obfuscate.I´m watching for her to deny she ever saw a request from Stevens for more security.
She already halfway blamed Stevens a while back by saying he knew the risk he was taking going in there.
This was an out and out assassination of Stevens by his own government for a reason we don´t know and that will never come out in this inquiry.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 1/22/2013 4:29:56 AM (No. 9131575)
I hope they ask her about US supplied arms to those AlQuida terrorists who used them in Algeria. I utterly despise her.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
varkdriver, 1/22/2013 5:25:03 AM (No. 9131605)
And in related news, I ´expect´ Salma Hayek to return one of my many calls...
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Jebediah, 1/22/2013 6:29:57 AM (No. 9131648)
Doesn´t anyone remember the famous phrase "I don´t recall"?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
beca, 1/22/2013 6:55:03 AM (No. 9131672)
clarity/clinton...are you kidding me....
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Lonestar Jack, 1/22/2013 7:12:36 AM (No. 9131680)
Better than the Super Bowl.
Can she beat her record of 50 "I don´t recalls"?
Check Vegas for the overs and unders. They are giving 26 to 1 on the overs.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
artman1746, 1/22/2013 7:35:17 AM (No. 9131707)
A corrupt citizenry demands corrupt leaders. It´s time to accept that we have a corrupt citizenry that seems to ignore obvious corruption in the Clinton´s and Obama.
We are now led by the corrupt and the watchdog is the corrupted media.
It´s over folks. Better batten down the hatches. It´s going to be everyone for themselves.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Grace Veritas, 1/22/2013 8:15:47 AM (No. 9131784)
Like most commenters before me, the headline reads like a sick joke.
The notion that Republicans expect anything other than what everyone else expects, which is a pant-load of time-killing nonresponsive answers, can´t recalling, indignant posturing, and outright lying is laughable. Also laughable is the fantasy that Republicans will do anything other than furiously raise their eyebrows, angrily straighten their papers, or abruptly turn to staff and dispatch them on urgent missions.
This thing could get the popcorn-worthy Iran-Contra treatment, but I would bet the farm that the Republicans flinch before Herself does. Not even close. They will go in thinking they have to be tough, but not too tough on a "respected" SoS, and a woman with high approvals and aspirations. She will go in hacked off that she even has to deal with these vermin. She wins, hands down.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Felixcat, 1/22/2013 8:20:34 AM (No. 9131791)
For Hillary, thankfully the dead can´t talk.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Bad Dog, 1/22/2013 8:50:05 AM (No. 9131849)
The stress of the inquisition will do her in. If the GOP questions are too tough, she´ll develop a latent migraine, maybe faint from residual concussion effects, or cry.
She will be so sad these 4 Americans lost their lives, she will have been busy with solving the rest of the world´s problems (read: eating their food, drinking their beer, and dancing their dances), and there will be a conspiracy in place to make her look bad.
I could write this stuff.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
MisterDickens, 1/22/2013 8:54:14 AM (No. 9131860)
I wonder what it has cost us in time for government paid lawyers to help her "prepare her lies" over the past few months.
There is only one certainty in this dog and pony show... she will lie... repeatedly.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
hadass23, 1/22/2013 8:56:41 AM (No. 9131867)
boehner & mcconnell are road kill on clinton´s drive to the outhouse
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
VAPMAN, 1/22/2013 8:57:10 AM (No. 9131872)
She is ready to lie.She has had plenty of time to practice her lies and no Republican has the guts to challenge her. What worthless people we have running this country.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Rinktum, 1/22/2013 9:00:22 AM (No. 9131883)
The progressives will declare that the Republicans are escalating the war on women when they ask Mrs. Clinton anything that makes her uncomfortable. I would like to see a woman ask the hard questions and brook no evasive answers on the SOS´s part. However, the left will cry foul if any question pushes too hard. Mrs. Clinton wanted the job, hold her accountable for her decisions. Men died because of her incompetence. Their families deserve answers.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Grambo, 1/22/2013 9:19:39 AM (No. 9131934)
Whitewater, cattle futures, bimbo eruptions, travel office, FBI files, Vince Fosters, billing records, Hillarycare, vast right wing conspiracy, white house furniture… Oh yes, clarity is what we’ll see on Wednesday, clarity.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
pmarc078, 1/22/2013 9:29:32 AM (No. 9131952)
"i don´t recall" worked just fine for Oliver North.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 1/22/2013 9:49:36 AM (No. 9131997)
Expect the femocrats on the committee to come to Shrillary`s aid when the republicans begin asking tough questions.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
ROLFnader, 1/22/2013 10:00:15 AM (No. 9132021)
I know that I always associate Hillary with Ollie North, too. Yeeeesh
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Chuzzles, 1/22/2013 10:02:02 AM (No. 9132027)
They don´t refer to the State dept. as Foggy Bottom for nothing you know. Barack Obama has a better chance of becoming a fiscal conservative than we have in getting the open and honest truth from a Clinton. Unless she can do it in such a way that it knocks Obama off his perch without hurting her. I suspect that is why it has taken so long for her testimony.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
fed-up, 1/22/2013 10:13:36 AM (No. 9132059)
She will forcefully accept responsibility, while admitting no fault of her own. She won´t show any signs of weakness as she has her ambitions to think about here and the problem we have is that we have a group up there that will let it go with little truth to come out. They have admitted they have met with her behind closed doors, they have all the intelligence they are gonna get, so this is just for show for us poor saps who thought maybe there would be justice for those poor 4 victims.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
stryker714, 1/22/2013 10:27:39 AM (No. 9132099)
The question is does she think she´s stylin´ with those new glasses or is she actually attempting to look like Kim Jong Il?
At least Tammy Wynette took her to the woodshed over the (not) "standing by your man" comment that time. That´s about all we´ll get. No strings she could pull to stop that tongue lashing.
She must sleep better at night if those Benghazi bodies really were cremated. CYA? Done. In regards to the drones she can honestly say, "no muslims were harmed in the making of this video". George Soros would approve.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
starboard, 1/22/2013 10:48:36 AM (No. 9132150)
The clot thickens.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
outcast, 1/22/2013 10:49:02 AM (No. 9132154)
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
outcast, 1/22/2013 10:53:00 AM (No. 9132165)
Bill Clinton got $8 million for his memoirs. Hillary Clinton got $4 million for her memoirs.
That´s $12 million for the memoirs of two people who repeatedly swore under oath that they didn´t ´member nuttin´!
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw, 1/22/2013 10:54:55 AM (No. 9132173)
I expect the Senate Republicians will not be permitted to ask a single real question.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
peterfleming, 1/22/2013 11:11:50 AM (No. 9132219)
This is a first, lying for Obie. Most of her previous, long list of lies and unsolved deaths were all done to protect her Slick Willie. Now she´s being asked to lie for the raging, vindictive, commie style person not her husband. The world knows she can only lie, or die. The good news, she has all of mainstream media backing up her every lie. Diane Sawyer, Brian Williams, Steve Pelley, the whole army of limousine news actors will back up her every evasive, Slick Hilary words. Whatever we see will have been rehearsed, all of it "just for show", another socialist nail in the coffin of America. There will not be one questioner to actually pursue the truth. RINO Boehner crooks are also afraid for their lives and the safety of their families. It isn´t just Hilary; they all fear for their lives.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
gem1400, 1/22/2013 1:34:46 PM (No. 9132621)
I happen to know (from direct experience)that Hillary has a near photographic memory.
If she says she doesn´t remember, she´s lying. She remembers everything. Really.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
dman, 1/22/2013 2:18:21 PM (No. 9132716)
Not holding my breath.
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
heartsurgeon, 1/22/2013 2:19:02 PM (No. 9132720)
i suspect the phrase she will use is not "I don´t recall", but a more lawyerly and nuanced "I have no independent recollection".
This avoids having her memory called into question, while saving her from uttering any statements that could be construed as perjury. She won´t have to comment further on any damning emails or on the record statements she has made before...it lets her skate...she does not contradict, deny, clarify nor add to the paper trail that exists...she merely states she has "no independent recollection".
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
mamabear, 1/22/2013 2:25:40 PM (No. 9132736)
It may be the pessimist in me but, if she shows up, I expect a finely-honed, well-prepared, 2016-minded, thoroughly vetted lie that almost all of the Republicans will swallow and excuse away with a "not credible but, we will give her the benefit of the doubt" speech thereafter.
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
BetseyRoss, 1/22/2013 5:22:31 PM (No. 9133005)
If there is someone on that committee with half a brain, they will ask questions that they already know the answers to. But since the Republicans are known as the stupid pary that most likely won´t happen. This is such a farce.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
mort, 1/22/2013 5:52:18 PM (No. 9133040)
Republican expect clarity? How freakin´ stupid are they?
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
Wendybird, 1/22/2013 7:39:01 PM (No. 9133169)
What is the best, or reliable, concise reference to the Hillary “I don’t remember” testimonies? I can’t find a concise one on Google or Wikipedia. Perhaps it has been thinned with time. One of my correspondents says that she never uttered those words, or anything like them, not one time, ever.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee, 1/22/2013 8:06:16 PM (No. 9133199)
Earlier this month, another Republican senator, Bob Corker of Tennessee, who is the new ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee in the Democrat-controlled Senate, suggested that Mrs. Clinton is eager to try to address unanswered questions. “I actually sense — especially in talking to her chief [of staff] just in the last few days — that she’s anxious to want to come up and testify on Benghazi,” he told MSNBC.
The State Dept. says she will be prepared to answer any questions. (With the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God???)
I´d like for you to be wrong, #7, but it would be a surprise if you are wrong.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
artlover, 1/22/2013 9:58:28 PM (No. 9133307)
ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,,,,,,,,,,,,
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
Penney, 1/22/2013 10:18:00 PM (No. 9133326)
She is getting to be an, ´old hand,´ at this Congressional Hearing testifying thing, ...and so well rehearsed by now. s/
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
Madeye Moody, 1/22/2013 10:30:51 PM (No. 9133339)
Haven´t we seen this exact scenario play out before, if not several times before? The Clintons stall until an election passes then stall some more, and then make vaporous statements about wanting to work for the American people. Seriously, besides a changing the names and dates isn´t it all the same?
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
Gallo3, 1/22/2013 10:52:06 PM (No. 9133369)
More Theater of the Absurd.
Almost funny.
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Former Gov. Mark Sanford completed the trail to political redemption Tuesday with a win over Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch to reclaim his old seat in Congress. Sanford defeated Colbert Busch 54 percent to 45 percent, according to full unofficial results. Turnout was heavier than expected, with about 32 percent of the district’s 455,702 registered voters casting ballots. Sanford, who has never lost an election, returns to the 1st District seat he held for three terms from 1995-2001. It’s a remarkable comeback for a man many pundits had written off after his highly publicized affair with an Argentine
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Dem Congressman At Benghazi Hearing: "Death Is A Part Of Life"
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Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/8/2013 2:27:15 PM
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Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, tells Benghazi witnesses that "death is a part of life." CUMMINGS: And, as I listen to your testimony I could not help but think of something that I said very recently -- two years ago now -- in a eulogy for a relative. I said that death is a part of life, so often we have to find a way to make life a part of death. And, I guess the reason why I´m saying that, going back to something Mr. Nordstrom said, he wanted,
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A new ‘Dawn’ at ABC: Newsman becomes newswoman
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New York Post, by Tara Palmeri
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/8/2013 11:26:11 AM
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Top ABC News editor Don Ennis walked into his Manhattan office on Friday in a “little black dress” and a brunette bobbed wig and announced to colleagues that from now on, he would like to be known as Dawn. The 49-year-old father of three said he’s splitting from his wife of 17 years to become a woman, or Dawn Stacey Ennis, as she is now known on her governmental records. “Today I begin anew,” she wrote on her Facebook timeline, where she debuted a flirty new profile picture. “Please understand: This is not a game of
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Benghazi: Incompetence, but no cover-up
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National Journal, by Michael Hirsh
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 5/8/2013 6:04:54 PM
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There was tragic incompetence, plainly, in the Obama administration’s handling of the Benghazi attacks, and even possibly some political calculation. It is a record that may well come to haunt Hillary Clinton, the first Secretary of State to lose an ambassador in the field in more than three decades, if she runs for president in 2016. But the obvious Republican effort to turn this inquiry into the Democratic (Obama) version of the Iraq intelligence scandal that has tarred the GOP since the George W. Bush years -- led by that least-credible of champions, the almost-always-wrong Darrell Issa --
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Constitution implies a right to health care, education
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Washington Times, by Douglas Ernst
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/7/2013 8:22:18 PM
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee took to the House floor Monday night and implied that the right to health care and education exists in the Constitution. Ms. Jackson Lee, Texas Democrat, also made the case that the moral authority for such services is also derived from the Declaration of Independence. “One might argue that education and health care fall into those provisions of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” she said. Ms. Jackson Lee added, “I think that what should be continuously emphasized is the president’s leadership on one single point: that although health care was not
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Mark Sanford wins South Carolina special election
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Washington Post, by Rachel Weiner
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Posted By: supersid- 5/7/2013 8:55:20 PM
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Mark Sanford has won the South Carolina special election in a competitive race for what in normal circumstances is a safe Republican seat. The former governor beat Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert Busch, for the state’s 1st congressional district. The AP called the race for Sanford early in the evening, with the Republican leading Colbert Busch 54 percent 46 percent.
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