Are Some GOP Members of Congress Morally Corrupt on Libya?

Things must be getting desperate in Republican land in Congress as they see this election, slip, slipping away out of their grasp as the Libyan attack is blowing up in their faces:

But now, a growing drumbeat of evidence has found that the administration’s claims were substantiated by the the intelligence community. Eyewitnesses in Benghazi initially told officials and reporters that “members of the group that raided the U.S. mission specifically mentioned the video, which denigrated the prophet Muhammad” and “found no evidence that it was ordered by Al Qaeda.”  

They have no one to blame but themselves for their obstructionism, lies and lack of integrity in this election.  Trying to use a tragedy like Libya to score political points is exactly the reason that Republicans including Romney should not get people's votes on November 6th.  Many of today's Republicans have no integrity or honesty in this election.  Never thought I would be saying that along with Republicans have put ousting Obama and their party ahead of what is good for the Country.  Unfortunately, they have done just that with their obstructionist tactics and lies they have told about Obama.    How much farther along would the recovery be if the Republicans in the House and Senate had worked with the Democrats for the American people?  Love it when the GOP trashes Obamacare which was based on a Republican plan in the 90's and Romneycare but it is so bad they had to vote over 30 times to repeal costing the taxpayers around $50M all for the purposes of grandstanding leading up to this election.

For Cong King (R-NY) to suggest that Obama had the intel documents doctored shows a gross lack of integrity and honesty.  If King wants the American people to think anyone can snap their fingers and change intel reports, he knows he is lying which make his comments even worse.  Those intel people at the highest levels are not for sale to anyone as they put America first something Republicans have forgotten in their quest to get a very flawed candidate Romney who cannot tell the truth elected.  Republicans have been morphing into pretzels lying about him and putting their credibility on the line for Romney which as we note is continuing today.  GOP has been saying for years that Obama never gets an intel briefing but that is an outright lie as I have discovered when talking to some people I have known for years who come out of that community.

Reports have indicated that despite the intelligence community’s growing uncertainty about the impetus for the attacks, “intelligence officials didn’t feel they had enough conclusive, new information to revise their assessment” and did not communicate their doubts to Rice before her Sunday show appearances. This assessment was also reflected in Obama’s Presidential Daily Briefings. 

This is simply stunning and make a lot of us who are Republicans question Republicans who have been elected in the House and Senate who put the Republican Party and its big donors over the American people.  For that alone, they deserve to lose control of the House and not take the Senate.  Democrats if they take control of the House are walking a thin line with the American voters who have had it with both parties in Congress.  Republicans promised transparency and working together if we elected them -- they didn't come close to delivering as they became obstructionist on almost everything.  What I have been seeing about Libya from Republicans in Congress is enough to know this group should never be in charge of committees in Congress.  Sad day for America when politics is put over Country.  Time both parties wake up and realize they work for the good of the American people not their parties.

Are there no Republicans with backbones willing to stand up and call out people like Peter King whose comments are so despicable -- whether you like him or not, you are talking about the President of the United States which shows with today's Republicans it is all about scoring political points as the truth takes a big hit.

SecurityGOP Jumps The Shark: Congressman Suggests Obama Doctored Libyan Intelligence To Win ReelectionBy Igor Volsky posted on Oct 22, 2012 at 12:01 pm

Republicans blamed President Obama for the killing of four Americans in Libya within hours of the September 11 attack, attributing the violence to the administration’s supposed penchant for “apologizing” and failing to lead in the region. Within days, Republicans charged that Democrats, by arguing that the deaths were caused by a YouTube video disparaging the Prophet Muhammed, were covering up and misleading al Qaeda’s involvement in the deaths and called for U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s resignation. During a series of Sunday show appearances on September 16th, she pointedly argued that the attackers took advantage of a protest against the video to carry out the killings. 

But now, a growing drumbeat of evidence has found that the administration’s claims were substantiated by the the intelligence community. Eyewitnesses in Benghazi initially told officials and reporters that “members of the group that raided the U.S. mission specifically mentioned the video, which denigrated the prophet Muhammad” and “found no evidence that it was ordered by Al Qaeda.” The CIA also believed that the clip acted as an accelerant for the killings, instructing both Obama and Rice that “The currently available information suggests that the demonstrations in Benghazi were spontaneously inspired by the protests at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and evolved into a direct assault against the U.S. Consulate and subsequently its annex.” The agency did not change its assessment until September 22. 

The new evidence undermines the GOP’s accusations. But rather than back away from the blame game, they’re doubling down on their attacks against the administration. During an appearance on Fox News on Monday, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King (R-NY) — who led the Republican effort to use the Libya incident as a way to weaken Obama’s foreign policy credentials — insisted that Obama should have questioned the intelligence community’s conclusions and suggested that he pressured the CIA to doctor its findings to fit his re-election narrative:

KING: I want to find out why the president didn’t ask questions….Did they ask the State Department if they had any videos what occurred at the consulate that night? Why with all these threats leading up to September 11th and talking about terror attacks and how could they now be saying it was not a terror attack. I think they’re hiding behind the term intelligence community. To me shows the president did not look into what happened, did not inquire what happened, was willing to look at something face value. Why was the report at face value whether there was so much evidence in there showing it was terrorist attack. It cries out for explanation and investigation. [...] 

Who are the individuals or the ones the president claim gave him this information? And did the president steer them in that direction? Was this is mind set by the administration that said Libya was great victory and Al Qaeda was on the ropes and no longer a threat to us?

During an earlier appearance on Laura Ingraham’s radio show, King also suggested that Rice should have known that the intelligence presented to her was false and interrogated the assessments before appearing on that series of Sunday political talk shows. “She’s in the chain of command at the State Department,” he said. “Did she just take that information or did she go to the Secretary of State?”   

Read More at Security at Think Progress.

Talk to more people who think it is time for a viable third party with a center right philosophy with no social issues.  Reminder -- Contract with America in 1994 did not contain social issues.  This group of Republicans wants to do away with contraceptives being made available in addition to legal abortion.  We should be moving forward not backward in this Country.

Don't know anything about the district of Peter King but after this, he should be voted out of office,  His credibility is shot and with it the Republican Party members of Congress who have gone over the cliff with the thought of a black man getting four more years as President.   It might even be worse if it was a woman because women are to be seen and not heard or an Hispanic who some Republicans consider less than human.  

Along with Romney has come some of the most bigoted comments out of Republicans I have ever seen.  When Jeb Bush said his brother, Dad, and Reagan would not have been nominated by today's Republican Party he is telling the truth but then they probably would not have run to represent the nasty, bigoted, hard right we are seeing today.

Think the Republican Party leadership is about to get the shock of their lives when the final results are in.  If they had any core values, they would ask themselves where they lost their integrity and honesty along with class in this election.  Only then, can the Republican Party start to be put back together.  If they are not willing to take the blame for going hard right and putting their big donors over the Country, then there is no hope for the Republican Party and some of us are going to have to find a new home.

 

Opposition to the Mosque near Ground Zero is not Going Away but Getting Stronger

What is the difference between Muslim and Islam? A Muslim is someone who follows the religion Islam and who has submitted to Allah. One submits to Allah by confession of the Shahada or the 5 pillars of faith. Besides the five major beliefs or doctrines in Islam, there are these are observances in Islam which are foundational practices or duties every Muslim must observe. Read More at: http://www.truthnet.org/islam/whatisislam.html

We asked that question because we kept seeing the words interchanged in articles especially after this Ground Zero Mosque has caught the attention of a lot of people so we wanted to clarify the definition.

This morning we received an email from Jay Sukelow, ACLJ, with the following we excerpted:

the ACLJ is taking action. We're demanding that the State Department put a halt to the Imam's participation in this publicly-funded trip.

As you know, the ACLJ is already in court, taking the lead on this troubling issue. We're representing New York firefighter Tim Brown, a first responder who survived the Twin Towers' collapse on 9/11 and lost nearly 100 friends. We've filed suit in New York challenging a vote by the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC), which denied landmark status to the building where the mosque is planned.

And now, there are new revelations that the developer of the mosque project does not even own both parcels of land needed for construction of the project - raising a host of new legal questions amid serious concerns about whether the developer misled the public and New York officials in an attempt to get the mosque project approved.

What is wrong with the Mayor of New York Bloomberg, members of the City Council, et al, who have approved the building of this mosque so close to Ground Zero of the WTC towers? This is not religious tolerance even remotely. This is throwing it in our face by the Iman and his fellow Muslims that they can do whatever they want no matter that members of the Islamic Faith they preach are the ones who killed over 2600 people that day when the Islamic Jihadists hijacked planes and flew them into the World Trade Center Towers.

New York City went from having a Mayor (Rudy Guiliani) who stood up to the Islamic supporters to a political correct Mayor Bloomberg who is rumored to have paid off Thompson to stay in the race for Mayor. Who did he pay off in order to support doing away with term limits just for him or was it done so he could continue to guide the economy of NYC back BUT that was only for the rich? Is this Mosque another reason why he fought for a 3rd term?

Harris Sherline in his editorial at GOP USA said what most of us have thinking about this Mosque:

Sherline: The Mosque At Ground Zero
By Harris R. Sherline August 12, 2010 7:05 AM


I don't appreciate being lectured on fairness, that is, what my attitude should be about some particular issue, based on whether I am willing to be "tolerant" of "the other" point of view, which amounts to agreeing that my own opinion is wrong. The Mosque at Ground Zero is a case in point. Furthermore, I am also not interested in being politically correct to the point that I am willing to tolerate the in-your-face construction of a $100 million Islamic cultural center and mosque at ground zero, within a stone's throw of the World Trade Center (WTC).

And, notwithstanding the support of New York City's Mayor Bloomberg and other civic leaders, including the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission, it's clear that millions of other Americans oppose what they see as a deliberate assault on the sensibilities of those who lost friends and family in the WTC attack on 9/11.
Attorney Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) has filed an action urging the New York state Supreme Court, arguing that the mosque currently on the site deserves "landmark status," which would prevent the building that now occupies the site from being torn down. His brief compares building a mosque and cultural center at ground zero to "putting a monument to kamikaze pilots at the Arizona memorial at Pearl Harbor." In addition, he questions the source of the $100 million that will be needed for the projects, asking: "where is this money coming from and who's behind it?"

Read more: http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/2010/08/sherline-the-mosque-at-ground-zero.php#ixzz0wPM9irCm

Representative Peter King (R-NY) asked for an inquiry into the funding of the Mosque at Ground Zero in an interview he had with AP. Will he get his request honored? Probably not until January 2013 after the new Congress takes office. We have no faith in Pelosi and her puppets looking into any funding involving the Islamic mosque at Ground Zero.

We note that Democrat candidate for Governor Cuomo supports the building of this mosque which should make the NY debates for Governor extremely interesting. Will Republicans finally run campaigns to win in NY? This is the year that those supporting the Ground Zero Mosque need defeated.

NEW YORK -- The ranking Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee said Monday he favors an investigation into the funding of a proposed mosque near ground zero.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Rep. Peter King raised concerns about the sources of funding for the proposed $100 million mosque, just blocks away from the site of the Sept. 11 attacks, where nearly 3,000 Americans died at the hands of Islamic terrorists.

"It's a house of worship, but we are at war with al-Qaida," King told the AP. "I think the 9/11 families have a right to know where the funding comes from; I think there are significant questions."

The mosque is a project of the American Society for Muslim Advancement and the Cordoba Institute, which promotes cross-cultural understanding between Islam and the West. Cordoba's director, Imam Faisel Abdul Rauf, has refused to disclose the sources of funding for the mosque and once suggested in a television interview that U.S. policies contributed to the 9/11 attacks.

King's views differ sharply from those of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who said Monday it would be un-American to investigate the mosque. Bloomberg, a Republican-turned-independent, has backed the mosque since the project came under development, as do numerous other community and political leaders including Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic nominee for governor.

Read More at: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/12/ny-congressman-calls-inquiry-funding-mosque-near-ground-zero/