Rice gets butchered by GOP strategists
After twice ambushing U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice over the bungle in Benghazi, it’s now clear that she is being sacrificed as a result of a diabolic plot by the GOP to take back the Massachusetts senate seat by replacing Dem. Senator John Kerry with GOP former incumbent Scott Brown, who lost his seat in a tough battle with Elizabeth Warren.
This was a clever ploy, because unwary Democrats in Washington never saw it coming. They may never learn how to play political hardball and have naively assumed that Ms. Rice’s detractors were truly concerned about the tragic deaths of four Americans in Libya.
In truth, they were capitalizing on the tragedy to vent their anger and frustration after the rout at the polls. At the same time they dominated the cable news cycles and made it difficult for President Obama to even start to enlist public support for his agenda to spare the nation from going over the so-called fiscal cliff.