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During a press conference today, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made it clear why he will oppose U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice becoming Secretary of State: the war in Iraq. During the press conference, Graham and fellow Republican senators John McCain and Kelly Ayotte called for a Select Committee to investigate the attack on [...]
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President Obama came out with guns blazing at today's news conference, his first since re-election, pushing back hard against Republican senators' disparaging remarks about U.N. ambassador Susan Rice, Washington's odds-on favorite to get the nod as America's next secretary of state.
The president may indeed be genuinely outraged that one of his reportedly closest advisors is taking heat for the Sept. 11 snafu in Benghazi -- a situation Rice had nothing to do with. He repeated the administration's claim that when Rice took to the airwaves on Sept. 16 to explain the events in Libya, she was merely working with what the intelligence community had given her. And as far as we know, that's precisely what happened. (Benghazi isn't really the reason senators are objecting to Rice anyway, but that's ...
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President Obama has yet to nominate anyone to succeed Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, but Republicans are already lining up in opposition to potential replacement U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, citing her complicity in the administration's alleged failures in responding to the attacks in Benghazi, Libya. On Wednesday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) promised to filibuster [...]
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Today during his White House press conference, President Obama scolded Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and other Republicans for attacking America's U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice regarding intelligence on the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi. McCain said today that he and his Republican allies would do anything they can to prevent Rice from becoming [...]
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It's been four years since John McCain tried to tarnish President Obama by suggesting that the candidate was a celebrity-as if all famous politicians aren't-rather than a man of substance. The tactic didn't work. If anything, the first Obama term in office was evidence that we were ready for a president who was a celebrity, [...]
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Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) managed this morning to both defend President Obama's right to nominate Cabinet members and categorically ban the President from putting forward U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice to become Secretary of State. In discussions on Fox News this morning, McCain refused to say whether he would join the movement to [...]
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Wall Street, after giving more to President Obama during the 2008 election than to his opponent Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), flipped during the 2012 election to give the vast majority of its campaign donations to Mitt Romney. As Matt Phillips outlined at Quartz, "individuals affiliated with the banking and finance industries overwhelmingly channeled money towards [...]
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