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The ratio of softball nonsense (“”Everywhere in the world that I have traveled you are viewed with admiration and the respect”) to tough questions during Hillary Clinton’s testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was around 1500:1. Still, the whole charade was worth it just for Rand Paul’s seven or so minutes.
Sentator Paul began by thanking Mrs. Clinton for “accepting responsibility.” He then proceeded to castigate her for her “failure of leadership,” bluntly stating that had he been president, “I would have relieved you of your post.” (He also produced a hilarious, if somewhat disturbing, catalogue of memos that he excused the secretary for doubtless not having read: e.g., items approving funds for overpriced comedic entertainment).
But the best came near the end, when Paul asked Clinton whether the United States has been in any way involved with the shipment of weapons from Turkey to Libya. The secretary stammered briefly before firmly denying any knowledge of weapons trading: “I don’t know… I don’t have any information.”
While my guess is that Mrs. Clinton will probably resign her post and ‘scape whipping here, I would like to imagine a world in which some sort of smoking gun were produced proving that she was fully aware of the weapons moving from Turkey to Syria by way of Libya, making her, ipso facto, guilty of perjury.
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Kingofthenet| 1.23.13 @ 12:09PM
Yeah, shipping weapons to our Enemies, who does she think she is....Ronald Reagan?
Redfray | 1.23.13 @ 1:20PM
Did Ronald Reagan get four Americans killed?
Simon Templar| 1.24.13 @ 10:24AM
Liberal boy, You thought it was horrible when Reagan did it, why is it Ok now?
Bandido| 1.23.13 @ 12:33PM
She could be guilty of serial murder and would still be excused and fawned over by these disgusting excuses for senators and journalists. Can anyone imagine Condi Rice getting over this way?
mike 3/505| 1.23.13 @ 2:08PM
I cannot understand the mentality of anyone who would send an ugly old hag in a pantsuit to negotiate with the Arab world...friends or enemies.
Occam's Tool| 1.23.13 @ 3:29PM
King: if it advanced America's position in the world vis a vis our main enemies, that would be fine. For example, at that time our main enemies were Communists. Now they are Islamists.
Hillary let us get our Ambassador ANALLY RAPED and MURDERED without consequence.
When the hell are we going to start doing the "Number 6?"
AllAmericanAmerican| 1.23.13 @ 4:04PM
OK...say tomorrow there is irrefutable evidence Clinton committed perjury.
What exactly would Republican "leaders" do? Nothing. Hell when her hubby was president he was getting knobbers from fat chicks in the oval office and then lying about it and they did nothing then. They'd do nothing now.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.23.13 @ 8:25PM
I'm not quite sure that impeaching a president for only the second time in US history (even if the Senate lack the testicular fortitude to convict him) could accurately be characterized as "nothing", as even though he kept his job, it kept him pretty tied up during his second term.
PCC| 1.23.13 @ 8:24PM
Mr. Walther's post includes an unfortunate but significant error. Sen. Rand's question asked whether guns were being run from Libya to Turkey (and presumably then on to Syria), not the other way around. Mrs. Clinton's fumbling response was utterly unconvincing.
Dai Alanye | 1.24.13 @ 8:26AM
William Safire had Hillary pegged from the start. He called her a congenital liar, though, which is not quite correct. It's Bill Clinton who is the congenital liar, while Hillary is merely a habitual one. But in her present position she makes the most of her habit.