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Hello Congress.

Published: 9:25 AM, 11/19/2012
 

Author: Tommy Wilson
Source: The Monroe County Advocate

Hello, Congress.

David Petraeus is not going anywhere.

Nothing is going to change the disaster in Benghazi.

Right now, you (Congress) have other problems to solve and you have to do that fast. So, get your focus on the immediate problems and worry about the things you cannot change at a later date.

Sen. John McCain has become the media-chasing politician (I have a better word but I will not use it), with his sidekick Lindsay Graham, trying to make the biggest issue facing America the question of when the president knew of the real source of the four murders in Benghazi.

"When," does not bring back those lives. There was a tragic communications mess but there is nothing we can do about it now, except that we make sure those problems are corrected. We do need to get to the bottom of why there was not more security for the embassy, but attacking the President about when he knew it was terrorist attack, proves little.

Frankly, McCain's and Graham's motivation for raising such a stink is politics, and not a concern for the four killed or what is best for the country. McCain is still mad that he lost the election four years ago and seems hell-bent on getting even. Obama did not pick his running mate, McCain did that, and that bad decision has made him a bitter old man. Get over it!

Graham can only get some of the attention if he acts like he is as important as McCain. You would think the recent election numbers would have tempered some of that arrogance, but they do not get it. He seems to be attempting to ride McCain's coattails and there simply is not enough room there.

However, what they both seem to forget there is more to worry about than who the President nominates for Attorney General. That nomination has to go through Congress sooner or later, so worry about it then. The fact that McCain has attacked Ambassador Susan Rice's intelligence, integrity and anything else he can think of, says more about McCain than it does Rice.

McCain, Graham, "Shut up and get to work on our immediate problems. You can be sore losers later."


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