Romney 'Outraged' Over Obama 'Sympathy' for Embassy Attackers

[Forever_frost]

http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/house-conservatives-call-for-stripping-us-aid-from-egypt-and-libya/

From The Hill:

A group of House conservatives is calling for foreign aid to Libya and Egypt to be stripped from a six-month federal funding bill set for a vote on Thursday.

A handful of lawmakers voiced outrage Wednesday at the Obama administration’s response to the attacks on the U.S. embassies in those countries and suggested the inclusion of foreign aid could influence their votes.

“It makes it easier to vote ‘no’” on the spending bill, freshman Rep. Jeff Landry (R-La.) said at a press event with conservative House Republicans at the Capitol.



The House on Thursday plans to vote on a continuing resolution that would extend federal funding through March, preventing a government shutdown before the election or during a lame duck session of Congress this fall. While conservatives pushed to avoid a shutdown fight, they have also raised alarms about the inclusion of additional welfare funding in the bill.

“It would show a tremendous amount of leadership from this administration, in light of the recent developments, if the president were to come back and demand that the amount of money that is in the [continuing resolution] for Libya and Egypt be stripped. That would be tremendous leadership,” Landry said.

[Geor!]

Bring on the civil war!

[Forever_frost]

And nothing is said to Obama.

[4bangen]

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An open mic caught reporters coordinating what questions they plan to ask Governor Romney, specifically if he regretted his comment about yesterday's protests in Egypt, while they waited for Mitt Romney to appear at a press conference this morning. (h/t The Right Scoop) Transcript below:

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: …pointing out that the Republicans are… *unintelligible* …Obama…

CBS REPORTER: That’s the question.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: *unintelligible*

CBS REPORTER: Yeah that’s the question. I would just say do you regret your question.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Your question? Your statement?

CBS REPORTER: I mean your statement. Not even the tone, because then he can go off on…

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: And then if he does, we can just follow up and say, "but this morning your answer is continuing to sound…" – *becomes unintelligible*

CBS REPORTER: You can’t say that.

**Later**

CBS REPORTER: I’m just trying to make sure that we’re just talking about, no matter who he calls on we’re covered on the one question.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Do you stand by your statement or regret your statement?

That shit right there needs to be shouted from the roof tops. Fuck the media, fuck the media, and fuck the mother fucking media.

[Forever_frost]

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An open mic caught reporters coordinating what questions they plan to ask Governor Romney, specifically if he regretted his comment about yesterday's protests in Egypt, while they waited for Mitt Romney to appear at a press conference this morning. (h/t The Right Scoop) Transcript below:

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: …pointing out that the Republicans are… *unintelligible* …Obama…

CBS REPORTER: That’s the question.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: *unintelligible*

CBS REPORTER: Yeah that’s the question. I would just say do you regret your question.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Your question? Your statement?

CBS REPORTER: I mean your statement. Not even the tone, because then he can go off on…

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: And then if he does, we can just follow up and say, "but this morning your answer is continuing to sound…" – *becomes unintelligible*

CBS REPORTER: You can’t say that.

**Later**

CBS REPORTER: I’m just trying to make sure that we’re just talking about, no matter who he calls on we’re covered on the one question.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Do you stand by your statement or regret your statement?

[CJ]

Right now, Romney is the only one that will/can publicly speak out about this. He should hammer on this until November.

Agreed. We know the stupidity of this President. Independent voters might not. You have to keep recent events fresh in their minds.

[Vertnut]

Would you rather no one say anything when the POTUS fucks up?

Right now, Romney is the only one that will/can publicly speak out about this. He should hammer on this until November.

[4bangen]

Would you rather no one say anything when the POTUS fucks up?

[bcoop]

It was on 9/11/2001.

The bigger campaign issue in 04 was the Iraq war.

[Sean88gt]

Perhaps I'm looking at the war differently than this event. The war wasn't fresh, really. And it wasn't an attack against Americans on US soil.

It was on 9/11/2001.

[bcoop]

Perhaps I'm looking at the war differently than this event. The war wasn't fresh, really. And it wasn't an attack against Americans on US soil.

[Vertnut]

Yes it is. Last election it was the Afghan/Iraq war, as was the one before that. Do you not remember the US troop casualties being thrown all over the place? Caskets on CNN and MSNBC against bush's reelection, the same against McCain. This is completely normal. The point is our president has once again done something stupid, and this IS the time to point it out, as he is up for re-election in two months.

We don't even want to THINK about the '04 election and the body-counts that were being recited over every major news network, and how Dubya was responsible.

[CJ]

LOL @ an open mic with the reporters in the Romney press conference. They are caught coordinating/collaborating to make sure they are all covered on the attack plan. Hilarious.

[CJ]

It is not typical of every election to be pointing out something stupid, when there were American casualties invovled.

Yes it is. Last election it was the Afghan/Iraq war, as was the one before that. Do you not remember the US troop casualties being thrown all over the place? Caskets on CNN and MSNBC against bush's reelection, the same against McCain. This is completely normal. The point is our president has once again done something stupid, and this IS the time to point it out, as he is up for re-election in two months.

[bcoop]

It's an election year, we're two months out, and Obama has yet again done something incredibly stupid and irresponsible. This is exactly the time to point it out as a reason to not re-elect him. This is typical of every election.

It is not typical of every election to be pointing out something stupid, when there were American casualties invovled.