Washington – Senators Won’t Support Rice Until Libya Questions Resolved

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    Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, left, followed by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., right, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, for a closed-door meeting with U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice who could find her name in contention as early as this week to succeed Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state. McCain and Graham have been vocal opponents of Rice based on her comments following the deadly Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)Washington – Republican senators who met with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice on Tuesday said they would not support any nomination of her to a higher post until questions about the administration’s response to the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya, were answered.

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    Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Kelly Ayotte met behind closed doors with Rice for about an hour and said they were still troubled by her responses to their questions about her early comments following the September 11, 2012, attack that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans.

    Rice is considered a possible contender for secretary of state in President Barack Obama’s second term, a position that would require Senate confirmation.


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    11 years ago

    Let’s hope she points the finger at the president – then congress can start IMPEACHMENT proceedings

    11 years ago

    Now let’s watch a few things here.

    1. The liberal socialist media will label this issue racial, and this is certainly not the case.

    2. Words are amazing. All politicians do it, but liberals are far beyond tolerance on this. Obama has demonstrated the uncanny ability to make things sound really wonderful. Trouble is that these verbal expressions are nothing but a facade. Rice has that ability, as all liberals do, and she will say all the right things to make all believe that she was not only not incorrect/lying on the subject, but that her utterances represent the best that politics can offer. She will make herself sound like the greatest of the righteous, a Founding Mother. If, we possess the ability to see through the bluff, we will recognize the severe lack of professionalism that should be a basic requirement for public office.

    11 years ago

    John McCain wouldn’t support pulling up his pants until his shoes were hard to see. I think that this GOP we have today is more obstructionalist than reality based.