Republicans are fundraising off of Benghazi--

By JAKE SHERMAN | 5/7/14 10:52 AM EDT Updated: 5/7/14 1:34 PM EDT

The House Republican campaign arm is rebuffing the chairman of the Benghazi select committee and is raising money off the GOP’s investigation into the 2012 attack.

A post on the National Republican Congressional Committee website dated May 6 is titled “You Can Become a Benghazi Watchdog Right Now.”

“House Republicans will make sure that no one will get away from [Trey] Gowdy and the Select Committee,” the blog post says. “This is going to be a national effort for a national investigation.”

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http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/nrcc-fundraising-benghazi-106444.html#ixzz313Vpc1qT

I know this comes as a complete and utter shock to everyone. That not only is the GOP turning this into a partisan issue...but using it to RAISE MONEY for its campaign treasury.

Why the very idea that the Republicans aren't actually serious about investigating what happened at Benghazi....but are instead more interested in using it for political advantage probably bowls over others as much as it does me.

 

I am sure the Dems have never done fund-raising over the Iraq war because they are pristine..

 

I take it you have not heard the phrase "never let a serious crisis go to waste". It came from the Obama administrations and involves making sure that they take advantage of every crisis for, that's right, gaining political advantage.

Your post is an utter failure. Try again.

 

Odd "defense"...by that standard, then there are Republicans equally responsible for Benghazi???

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So you just admitted the GOP is USING Benghazi for political purposes?

Thanks.

 

Because investigations and committee hearings have worked so well under democratic control?

Of course republicans need to get more conservatives elected so things like Benghazi don't get swept under the rug by democrats.

What is the big deal? I want to know what really happened, and how much the State Department and White House knew. The only way to do that is to get republicans, that aren't complacent like democrats. elected.

 

I really expected such responses. For all the PHONY talk of "This is a serious matter about the deaths of 4 Americans in Libya, not politics"....

an ADMISSION even agreement to it being used as fodder for partisanship and RAISING MONEY.

 

Benghazi IS political, because of this administration. THEY made it that way to prevent losing an election.

Seems odd to me that you would want just now show outrage that the Republicans are using their campaign contribution efforts to overcome the atrocity that is Benghazi.

 

You seem to be stuck in the elementary level of this circumstance.

Republicans can't get the real answers of impropriety in the executive branch because they dont' control enough of the legislative.

Have you missed how the left keeps using their political clout to shut down investigations of obviously POLITICALLY driven circumstances revolving around Benghazi from the left?

 

So it's not "political" that the GOP is using a tragedy to raise money...it's "overcoming an atrocity"...

and the "only people making it political are Obama because he wouldn't let Fox News use it to defeat him in 2012"

Oh what a web, what a web.

 

I merely pointed out that for every example you can give of the GOP using a crisis for political purposes, I can give you examples of the Dems doing the same.

Can you explain why it is wrong for the Republicans to do something the Democrats do at every opportunity?

 

What a strange and irrational response. What does fund-raising have to do with who is responsible for anything?

 

Still ignoring the fact that the administration lied about the attack for political reasons.

You conveniently ignored that point. Lets try to focus on it.

 

Puleez! Romney lost the election with his 47% remarks...among other things, including Paul Ryan's scorched earth Ayn Rand idelogy. BENGHAZI was never a deciding factor for the mass majority of voters.

 

YOU brought up the Iraq War and Democrats. What was the point of your analogy?

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Again, another admission that the GOP is USING Benghazi for political purposes?

My thanks.

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No, I'm gonig to focus on the topic.....which you clearly do not, because it's embarrassing and shows how dishonest if not how low class Republicans are.

 

Some of how the Democrats are using people and situations to raise money.

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It is amazing that republican keep regurgitating the false smear of Benghazi...as it ethically the republicans and Darrell Issa that refused funds for extra security numerous times before Benghazi happened.

For Democrats, it still will remain a partisan smear by republicans in a desperate attempt to keep their smear campaign alive, but Benghazi will always and forever remain a partisan attempt to create "a republican engineered Benghazi scandal that does not have a motive"

 

"Paul Ryan's scorched earth Ayn Rand idelogy"

Hilarious. You should be doing two shows a night in Vegas...

 

Ahhh, another clueless Lefty who doesn't know what's actually going on because their biased sources won't tell them and they don't know any better. Hillary Clinton was asked if funding had anything to do with it and she said NO!

 

With the NRCC using Benghazi to raise money.....ANY chance that they can deny "Benghazi-gate" isn't partisan and not be laughed in their faces....flies out the window.

In fact, most of the Right are eager to admit and endorse it being used for political purposes....and thus contradict months of denial that it was political.

 

The ONLY REAL politics in this was the WH trying to cover for Obama during an election.

 

You damn right they are.....as well they should be. MOST people in our country think what happened in Benghazi and the subsequent lies and cover-ups is reprehensible. And they want something done about it.

 

So are democrats.

 

Sad that you comment and defend the policies of someone that you obviously know very little about...

 

Shouldn't you be a bit more worried about Obama being enamored with "Rules for Radicals" instead? That is a MUCH more dangerous situation.