Pardon my disinclination.

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9. Sen. Collins is a habitual liar on national security matters

She openly lied about Benghazi

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/impeachy-not-so-keen-sen-susan-collins-also-doesnt-see-impeachment-over-benghazi/

“If that is so,” Crowley said, “is it not a cover-up on a scale of — I mean, why do you think they would do this? Do you think it was to help the President get reelected?”

“I believe that because we were in the midst of the final weeks of a very contentious presidential re-election campaign, that one of the themes of this administration was that Libya was a success, that the military intervention had produced a stable pro-United States country that was moving toward democracy, and that al Qaeda was on the run. And what happened in Benghazi proved that neither of those narratives was accurate.”

Whatever the reasons for the revisions to the talking points, however, Collins’ claim is undercut by the fact that the President repeatedly referred to the attacks as an “act of terror” in the days following the attacks, and Amb. Susan Rice talked, specifically about al Qaeda and Ansar al Sharia, during her Sunday news show interviews.

I am basically in agreement with your position that we cannot make policy based on the assumption that Obama/Biden are good guys. That is why it is important to defeat Republicans, get control of Congress and elect as many Bernie Sanders/Elizabeth Warren types as we can. I don't see any other real solution.

President Eisenhower gave an impassioned speech before he left office about the control of the Military/Industrial alliance and the waste that it creates. He did not however spend his capital while in office trying to challenge it.