The Republicans in Congress Have It Wrong

If you've been paying any attention to the news at all, you can't help but know about the big to-do currently being waged on Capitol Hill regarding the probable nomination of UN Ambassador Susan Rice as the next Secretary of State. (Bye-bye, Billary Clinton, don't let the door hit you in your fat ass on the way out!) The Republicans have vowed to block the nomination due to the misleading/incorrect/false/whatever statements that Ambassador Rice gave on no less than five Sunday morning news shows concerning the attack on our embassy in Libya. These appearances took place the day after the attack, and during those appearances the Ambassador stated clearly and unequivocably that the attack was a "spontaneous demonstration" that took place as a result of an anti-Muslim film released a few days before, and absolutely was NOT a terrorist attack.

Of course, information released later proved not only that the attack was, in fact, a coordinated and pre-planned terrorist attack, but also that the White House - which means The Great Pretender - knew this before Ambassador Rice made her statements. And since the subsequent indications from NObama that he's going to nominate Rice as the next Secretary of State, the Republicans have pounced on her like a cat on a canary.

In short, they took the bait. They've been had, and they don't know it. They've allowed themselves to be duped by the oldest trick in the book, the trick that magicians use in their act every day. It's called "distraction," and in this case NObama is the magician.

This past week Ambassador Rice testified that she made her statements using information given to her by the CIA, and I gotta tell ya that I absolutely believe that. There's no doubt in my mind that when this whole thing broke she was given a fact sheet and told that the information in it had come from the CIA, that it was 100% reliable, and that she should use that fact sheet as the basis for her statements. And she did exactly what she was told. (One must wonder, though, how a woman of her intelligence who is smart enough to be appointed Ambassador to the United Nations could fail to realize that participants in a "spontaneous demonstration" don't usually show up with AK-47s and rocket launchers.)

Since then, of course, the news has broken that the contents of the document were edited, and that all references to a terrorist attack were removed and replaced with the "spontaneous demonstration" bullshit. This information comes from the CIA itself, and they say that the White House is responsible for the editing. And the White House, by the way, is where the Ambassador got the fact sheet from that she used as a basis for her statements.

This lays the blame and the fault for all of this squarley in the lap of the President of the United States, which is who the Republicans in Congress should be going after instead of Susan Rice.

Of course, NObama has come to the defense of Ambassador Rice, and the reason for this is simple: he has no choice. If he abandons Susan Rice and throws her to the Republican wolves as a human sacrifice to save his own skinny ass, he knows that she's not going to go down without a fight and will let loose with all kinds of secrets and make all kinds of damaging accusations on the way down. And that will turn the Republicans in the Congress loose on him, with the resulting furor in the press and the general public forcing the Demoncrats in Congress to go along with it.

Can you say, "IMPEACHMENT?"

So NObama has no choice; he has to defend Susan Rice lest he be left with defending himself - and both the college professor in him and his former lawyer wife both know that he'll have ZERO defense. His only hope is to continue the defense of his chosen scapegoat - and make no mistake about it, that's what Susan Rice is, a scapegoat - and weather the storm until it eventually dies down. Which it will, of course; with the looming budget crisis just over the horizon, it's only a matter of weeks before this whole thing is relegated to the back pages of the newspapers and the sub-sub-categories of news on FOXNEWS.com.

In my humble opinion, the Republicans in Congress need to pull their collective heads out of their collective asses and pounce on NObama before it's too late. The facts as I see them tell me that Ambassado Rice is guilty of doing nothing other than what she was ordered to do by the White House, even though I think her common sense should have kicked in at some point. (Then again, if you can't trust the President of the United States, then who can you trust? My point exactly.) Factual information has also come to light that the Embassy in Libya had told the White House that they feared a terrorist attack, that they wouldn't be able to defend against it, and requested assistance. The Great Pretender sat on his ass and did nothing, and as a result the US Ambassador to Libya and two other people were killed. The White House had previous knowledge that this attack was coming, had been begged by the Embassy for help, and did nothing.

It just amazes me that the Republicans haven't seen this, and I'm afraid that they'll continue snapping at the carrot being dangled in front of them until the budget crises overshadows everything else, and once again NObama will escape responsibility for something that he's done.

So I gotta ask you again: What the hell were you people thinking?

IHC