Proud GOP Rep: I voted to cut security at Libyan consulate

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[h=1]GOP Rep. Chaffetz admits voting against more security for Libyan consulate...[/h]

Chaffetz admits that there was a vote for additional security in Libya where he and his fellow Republicans voted no, then tries to blame it on the U.S. Senate because they never got around to voting on additional security, so his vote against more security doesn’t really count he says.



Rep. Chaffetz and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee want to know if not adding extra security was a political decision and if the White House and the State Department are at fault.



Two things are now irrefutable regarding the security issues in Libya;




  • yes, it was a political decision, and
  • that political decision is the direct fault of House Republicans.

The same House Republicans who today are holding hearings to push the blame onto President Obama in order to make him look weak on foreign policy, which happens to be the topic for the next Presidential debate.



http://www.examiner.com/article/gop...ng-against-more-security-for-libyan-consulate
 
Of course they cut it...this is fucking insane but they have and will do ANYTHING to win, ANYTHING...lie, steal, cheat...whatever it takes.
 
Haiku said:
Of course they cut it...this is fucking insane but they have and will do ANYTHING to win, ANYTHING...lie, steal, cheat...whatever it takes.
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The admission this morning on CNN by Utah Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz that he's "absolutely" voted against administration requests for increased embassy and consulate security funding should, in a rationally ordered world, put an end to this whole Benghazi business.


I mean, it really takes a set of onions to do this.


Vote down increased security funding, then a tragedy happens, then try to exploit it to help your presidential candidate because it happened to occur in September of an election year.


This deserves the word disgusting.





http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...-who-can-take-these-hypocrites-seriously.html
 
The cuts sought by Congress have been steep since the new House sat in 2011.


The Worldwide Security Protection program (WSP), which provides "core funding for the protection of life, property, and information of the Department of State," and a separate embassy security and construction budget, which in part improves fortifications, have both been under fire.




In 2011 they came in and passed a continuing resolution for the remainder of that fiscal year.


The House proposed $70 million cut in the WSP and they proposed a $204 million cut in Embassy security.


Then the next year, fiscal 2012, they cut worldwide security by $145 million and embassy security by $376 million.


This year's bill is the same thing all over again.


The House has cut the worldwide security budget $149 million below the request.



http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...-who-can-take-these-hypocrites-seriously.html
 
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Chaffetz and these other phonies aren't interested in the truth.

They're interested in trying to convince people that Barack Obama let all this happen because he's a secret Mooslem and is now at the center of some massive cover-up.

Pin this on Obama? Especially now that we know that his administration sought diplomatic security funding that the Republicans cut?


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...-who-can-take-these-hypocrites-seriously.html
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Thanks Jello for pointing out that poor OWEblahblah is just a victim of those mean ole repubwicans. I will call the waaaaaaambulance for you
 
GOP VP candidate Paul Ryan's budget would make our diplomats even more vulnerable:


Ryan, the GOP House Budget Committee chairman, has a plan for 2013 that would boost military spending while slashing the foreign affairs budget by nearly $5 billion...



The House GOP budget calls for a bigger Pentagon budget in 2013.



But it also proposes inflating it by tens of billions of dollars each year through 2022, when it would total nearly $710 billion.



That figure does not account for any conflicts or other emergencies that might spring up.




Ryan and House Republicans want to "cut virtually every national security program that is outside the Department of Defense. They cut every tool in the president's toolbox that isn't a gun," says Michael Breen, an Afghanistan and Iraq war veteran working with the Truman National Security Project.



http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/03/23/paul-ryans-budget-draws-fire-for-foreign-affairs-cuts
 
Ah... I see. A budget that was passed in the House but never taken up in the Senate. You're saying that it supposedly specifically reduced security for this particular Embassy when it didn't, and of course "the daily beast" is saying it as well...

When he (Chaffetz) says that the Obama Admin failed to prioritize Libya it is because of the funds set aside for Embassies, which were not cut as no budget has ever passed the Senate, they chose a different priority.

So, a non-specific "cut" that never went into effect caused this? I don't think so. This is weak, even for desperate democrats. The budget didn't slash funds for security at this Embassy, and the Administration has the ability to prioritize critical areas, like Libya apparently was.
 
man this is good stuff...

legion is so freaking smart i may have to take him off ignore so i can lea............laugh at his posts
 
Since retaking control in 2010, House Republicans have aggressively cut spending at the State Department in general and embassy security in particular.


Chaffetz and Issa and their colleagues voted to pay for far less security than the State Department requested in 2011 and again this year.


It's a bit rich to complain about a lack of US security personnel at diplomatic missions on the one hand, while actively working to cut the budget to pay for US security personnel at diplomatic missions on the other.


http://news.yahoo.com/libya-attack-congressmen-casting-blame-voted-cut-diplomatic-192500393.html
 
The Worldwide Security Protection program (WSP), which provides "core funding for the protection of life, property, and information of the Department of State," and a separate embassy security and construction budget, which in part improves fortifications, have both been under fire.


The House proposed a $70 million cut in the WSP and they proposed a $204 million cut in Embassy security.


Then the next year, fiscal 2012, they cut worldwide security by $145 million and embassy security by $376 million.


This year's bill is the same thing all over again.


The House has cut the worldwide security budget $149 million below the request.



http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...seriously.html
 
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