Pelosi To Boehner: Benghazi Panel Is 'Fundamentally Unfair'

[Bill USA]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/pelosi-boehner-benghazi-committee-letter-fundamentally-unfair

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wrote a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) Friday calling the GOP's select committee on Benghazi "fundamentally unfair."


She lamented to Boehner that he didn't fulfill her request to give Democrats have an equal voice in terms of issuing subpoenas and other procedural matters on the committee.

"Regrettably, the proposal does not prevent the unacceptable and repeated abuses committed by Chairman Issa in any meaningful way, and we find it fundamentally unfair," Pelosi wrote.

The Democratic leader is juggling several different goals when determining whether or not her party will boycott the panel. She's facing internal dissent from some members who want to participate, while leadership prefers to boycott. And she wants her party to appear reasonable in order to persuade the public that Republicans have ulterior motives in setting up the panel -- namely to attack the Obama administration and tarnish Hillary Clinton ahead of a possible 2016 presidential run.

Pelosi letter to Boehner - 5/9/2014

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I wish she just would have included in the letter the following: "The conclusions of this committee are already known by anybody who is familiar with the Republican war on Obama and now former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton and your penchant for character assassination and creating pseudo scandals. You could make the announcement this committee's conclusion of guilt of.. whatever right now, since as we all know, that decision has already been made regardless of the facts that do not support any such conclusion. But you won't do that, as that would deny you the benefit of creating sound bites for broadcast on the evening newscasts - and large hoped for contributions from the GOP's 'anti anything constructive' faithful."

[spin]

1. Elections have consequences. ...

That's why we need to get out and vote this year and hold the Senate and retake the House.

[kelly1mm]

2. Were select committees equally balanced D/R when she was speaker? I do not

believe so.

[savalez]

3. I hear ya' Bill but...

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I think it should have been simpler.

Something like:

"Boehner, your committee is a sham. It's purely political and a complete waste of taxpayer money. You know it, I know it, everybody knows it. You are an embarrassment to this country. Truly, Pel."