Susan Rice was supposed to be meeting with Republican senators this morning to dispel concerns about her likely secretary of state nomination, but it sounds like she only made matters worse. In a press conference after the meeting, Sen. John McCain said he was “significantly troubled” by many of the answers Rice gave:
“We are significantly troubled by many of the answers we got, and some that we didn’t get, concerning evidence leading up to the attack on our consulate, the tragic deaths of four brave Americans, and whether Ambassador Rice was prepared or informed sufficiently in order to give the American people a correct depiction of the events that took place. It is clear that the information that she gave the American people was incorrect when she said it was a spontaneous demonstration triggered by a hateful video. It was not, and there was compelling evidence at the time that that was certainly not the case, including statements by Libyans as well as other Americans who are fully aware that people don’t bring mortars and rocket-propelled grenades to spontaneous demonstrations.”
Sources told CNN’s Dana Bash that Rice told the senators she was aware of classified information suggesting al-Qaeda involvement before her controversial Sunday show appearances. Bash also reports that Rice said she regrets using the CIA talking points.
If Rice had said she was speaking based on the intelligence she had at the time, Republicans would probably have let her off the hook. That was the standard line the State Department and other Obama administration officials have given when asked about Rice’s Sunday show comments. But few people will have sympathy for her if she admitted she knew the talking points were potentially inaccurate and misleading before she used them. I actually wonder if she planned to tell the senators that when she initiated the meeting, or if they somehow pulled the information out of her. It certainly doesn’t help her case for the secretary of state nomination, which was supposedly the entire point of the meeting.
Why should anyone be surprised? The available evidence clearly indicated that Obama and members of his administration lied to the American people. The MSM and other allies of the Democratic Party refused to admit the obvious only because they were well aware it would doom the president's reelection hopes. Romney might have won by a 10 point margin.
nThis doesn't add up. Yet she went out and said that it was a protested and blamed that stupid video. n n
Kelly Ayotte was the third Senator in that meeting. The woman is not stupid. n nThat is something that the left still doesn't understand — that a woman can be polite and courteous, dress conservatively and professionally, and still have a razor-sharp intellect. The Left's women are either bimbos or man-hating lesbians and they keep falling into the assumption that ours are as well. n nNo. Conservatives who actually believe in things like individual merit and the rest are inclined to respect it regardless of the "package" it comes in. And thus our women largely get where they do on the basis of merit and hard work. And if the left wants to keep underestimating them, want to keep dismissing them because they love their husbands and children, so much the better….. n nI'm guessing that Senator Ayotte didn't say a whole lot, was just quietly sitting there as Rice essentially painted herself into a corner, and then Ayotte just finished the job.
Susan Rice was a foreign policy aide to Michael Stanley Dukakis during his failed 1988 POTUS bid. n nThis is the one best characterized by the famous SNL skit where the guy playing Dukakis says "I can't believe I am loosing to this guy" and where Dukakis promised to do to the country what he had done for (or to) Massachusetts that was literally on the verge of bankruptcy. n nYep, really good credentials… Kelly Ayotte was 21 years old at the time. Nashua is less than an hour from Massachusetts. Yep, I am sure she remembers Michael Dukakis and the "Massachusetts Miracle."
Yes, but the Dems will line up in front of cameras and claim that Republicans only act tough and treat women and minorities unfairly. This is the message they are running; it is the story that the media is promoting and enough Americans will believe it. n nGod help us.