The Fight Over Hillary's Successor
This could get interesting. From National Journal:
Senior Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday made crystal-clear their opposition to U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice as a nominee for [S]ecretary of State. Speaking at the Washington Ideas Forum, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., criticized Rice’s faulty explanation of the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Libya.
McCain said point-blank that he would oppose the nomination of Rice to replace Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Asked if he would do anything to block her, including filibuster, he bluntly answered “yes.”
Graham added: "I don’t trust her.”
“I think she was a political choice, telling a political narrative, and either she didn’t know the truth about Benghazi—so she shouldn’t have been on T.V.—or she was spinning it,” Graham said. He said he wouldn’t “promote” anybody involved in the “Benghazi debacle.”
The current Beltway scuttlebut has Rice succeeding Clinton at Foggy Bottom and John Kerry taking up residency at the Pentagon. These things can be -- often are, in fact -- wrong, but just the fact that these names are being considered is insightful. Imagine an Obama second term where the nation's chief diplomat is a woman who can't bring herself to acknowledge self-evident (Jay Carney's words, not mine) terrorist attacks and the head of the Defense Department is a man who once proudly claimed to have thrown away his medals.
Scared yet, Tehran? I didn't think so.
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Dec '10
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As a veteran and a DoD employee I just uttered several phrases harkening back to my days as a sailor when I read that about Kerry.
Sep '12
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It'll get worse before it gets better. We'll know we're done for when Obama has that post-election meeting with Putin and agrees to all of Putin's demands.
Forget milk. Got gold? Or in the immortal words of Warren Zevon, "Send lawyers, guns and money."
Edited on November 14, 2012 at 8:03pmDec '10
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Are there no competent, decent people available? Kerry and Rice. Oh my.
Sep '10
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Bleeding From Behind.
May '10
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--Ed Koch
Aug '12
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Horrible candidates.
However, a perfect representation of Obama.
Jul '10
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And people wonder why some of us want to secede.
Sep '10
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Seceding from Behind.
Jul '10
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Pseudodionysius
Seceding from Behind. · 3 minutes ago
You're going to publish a mad libs book where every page is ________ from Behind, aren't you?
Dec '10
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I always get here late; reading from behind.
Mar '11
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Clinton, Rice, Kerry – it really doesn’t matter. Any Secretary of State will be taking orders from the same man. Even floating Rice’s name for the position shows that Obama's no more serious about foreign policy than he was when his nominated Hillary. At least Hillary could be explained by his desire to make peace with her supporters. But, Rice?
Sep '10
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[Voluntarily redacted before I get a shoe thrown at me]
Edited on November 15, 2012 at 2:06amSep '10
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Pseudodionysius
[Voluntarily redacted before I get a shoe thrown at me]. · 0 minutes ago
Oh, my. My bad.
Edited on November 15, 2012 at 2:06amSep '10
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Can't these idiot Republican Senators learn to keep their mouths shut. To be talking about this at this point is self defeating. If Big Bird is nominated what will, be their position. That need to be clarified that also.
Jul '10
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Pseudodionysius
Pseudodionysius
[Voluntarily redacted before I get a shoe thrown at me]. · 0 minutes ago
Oh, my. My bad.
Game. Set. Match.
Sep '10
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Pseudodionysius
Seceding from Behind. · 17 hours ago
Bald Democrats are Receding from Behind.