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You don't have all your Oars in the water, you seem to be paddling in circles.

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May 17, 2013, 3:12:34 PM5/17/13
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On 5/17/2013 2:47 PM, Bret Cahill wrote:
>>>> The details of the troubles swirling around the White House this week
>>>> are bluntly contradicting Republicans who want to combine them into a
>>>> seamless narrative of tyrannical government on the rampage. [...]
>>
>>>> Whatever cranky point Republicans had been making against President
>>>> Obama for the last five years dishonesty, socialism, jackbooted
>>>> tyranny they somehow found that these incidents were exactly the proof
>>>> they had been seeking, no matter how inflated or distorted. [...] when
>>>> bound together and loudly denounced on cable television and in hearings,
>>>> they serve to obscure the real damage that Republicans continue to do to
>>>> the economy and the workings of government. [...]
>>
>>>> The Washington Post editorial board chimes in with probably the best
>>>> description of the modern GOP - "small-minded, hyperpartisan and
>>>> foolish":
>>
>>>> This is one of those Washington dust-ups where the actual facts
>>>> don t seem to matter much to the scandal mongers. [...] By focusing on
>>>> the phony issue of the talking points, Republicans are missing the
>>>> opportunity to press for needed reforms at State and a more active U.S.
>>>> policy in the Middle East. They should also be spurring a sluggish FBI
>>>> investigation to determine who really organized and led the attacks in
>>>> Benghazi; it has yet to be established whether they were ordered by
>>>> local jihadists, terrorists linked to al-Qaeda or someone else, and
>>>> whether they were planned because of the Sept. 11 anniversary or
>>>> inspired by the events in Cairo.
>>
>>>> Instead, with their bigger-than-Watergate rhetoric, the GOP s
>>>> scandal-pushers are making themselves look small-minded, hyperpartisan
>>>> and foolish.
>>
>>> Since when did use of talking points become a serious issue?
>>
>> Since they became evidence that the President's Regime was lying
>
> Why are Republicans calling lying "talking points?"
>
> Why not just prove the lies?

You don't have all your Oars in the water, you seem to be paddling in
circles.





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