Libya Security Cut While Vienna Embassy Gained Chevy Volts: Does State Department Prioritize Green over Security?

If the administration did not have enough money in the budget to properly secure that embassy, it should have been shut down. It's as simple as that.

0bama and Hillary are two inept government officials. Both deserve to be fired for gross negligence.

Just look at the money it spells it out for itself.

Seems their priorities weren't focused on security.

And for the fools that are trying to blame Republicans, Deputy Secretary of State Lamb was asked directly and specifically if funding was the issue and she replied "No." Additionally, she testified "We had the correct number of assets in Benghazi on the night of 9/11." Guess you were too busy getting your left-wing talking points to take the time to actually watch the hearings.

Actually, I think this thread is nothing more than a red herring. Ambassador Stevens literally abhorred general security levels. He preferred to take morning runs in the open and would often roam around the city and meet with locals and business people without a bunch of security people. He made choices. Live with it.

Democrats will do anything to weaken American security, even kill an Ambassador and try to cover it up. Clinton,Holder, Susan What's her name, and Obama should be tried for treason and murder for this outrage! Mittens is right Obama only picks losers to invest in, throwing more good money after bad.....again!

Scary. Hope it comes up in the debate tonight.

Maybe if the Republican Teabaggers in Congress hadn't slashed the State Department's security budget, there would've been more armed guards in Libya.

Give it a rest. The House of Representatives sets the budget for all this spending, including what the money can and can't be spent for. Don't like the spending? Blame the GOP House of Representatives.

ALL EMBASSIES ARE AT RISK THESE DAYS... CHEVY VOLTS DO NOT BREAK THE BANK. STEVENS AND SO MANY OTHER AMERICANS HAVE TAUGHT US THAT ATTEMPTING TO SPREAD DEMOCRACY THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST IS DANGEROUS, AND WE'LL NEVER KNOW WHERE TERRORISTS WILL ATTACK NEXT....NO MATTER HOW MUCH "SECURITY" WE PROVIDE FOR OUR BRAVEST "FREEDOM FIGHTERS."

PHITTT, TWIT!

The State Department cares about National Security. Obviously the Republicans in Congress who have cut about $300 million from our security budget don't understand that tax breaks for millionaires to buy private jets are all well and good but when we do that at the cost of providing adequate resources to maintain our national security it's not such a great idea after all.

What budget dude, congress has not been able to pass a budget because of the senate since Obama took office. get off your high horse and lay oof the kool-aid it is obviously killing brain cells.....

Even when a budget is a continuing resolution, it's still a Federal budget, and it's still written in the House of Representatives. There certainly have been budgets passed.

No we have not had a real budget passed since 2008, especially since the mid-term election. The senate has refused to pass the budget and give it to the president. there is not enough money allocated to their pet projects because the house understands that the American people can not afford to go further into debt due to wasteful and reckless spending...

The sad part is that it is not even helping the environment!!! Obama is determined to pour more and more money into Government Motors before it goes bankrupt, and it will! He is right on plan. They third large solar company to receive "stimulus" money has gone belly up. Obama's plan to destroy the economy is working. What have we done by electing this monster?

Fell for it. He lied at the beginning before the elections.

No. When you get a budget, they tell you how much is for security and how much for other programs. This $100k didn't come out of security cash.

What did come out of security cash, though was $300 million dollars over two years, cut by Republican deficit hawks.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com...

This is going to be too complicated for them, you know.

Fef has gone too far off the deep end to understand this.

Typical liberal agenda, enough said. Screw the people save the environment. When will these dumbasses realize that if there are no people how can we ensure the environment is going to be ok....... That was so hard, I was trying to use liberal logic and my brain just really wounldn't let me get that stupid.... Off to take some advil for the migraine.

More like "typical conservative agenda, enough said. Screw what the country needs, just cut the budget so millionaires can still get their tax deductions for private jets." When will these dumbasses realize that if they don't do their jobs and see to the needs of the American people they won't have anyplace to fly their private jets?

You might want to have a talk with your Liberal God Obama, he seems to have put several miles on Air Force One on the tax payer dime, to campaign, golf and vacation, make tv appearneces, etc..... BTW I don't think that private jets should be tax deductable, if you actually weren't so drunk on your kool-aid last week you would have heard Romney state he would close those loop holes.......

Romney has never once said what loopholes he would close to try to make up for the additional 5 trillion dollars in tax cuts he plans to make. (Never mind that there aren't enough deductions in the entire tax code to cover that much additional debt.)

See my sentence about being drunk on kool-aid, he did specifically mention closing the loopholes that many corporate slobs get away with on their tax returns. rely less on the daily issued talking points and more on the facts and you will be ok.....

Name one SPECIFIC loophole that Romney has said he would close. And include a link to a reliable source. Otherwise you might as just stay in fantasyland.

(Not that it would matter anyway, since it doesn't matter what Mitt Romney said yesterday because there's at least a 50% chance that he'll say the opposite tomorrow.)

WOW...just another Obama BS move. Purchase a bunch of losers from the company he bailed out to make them look good. Next we will be seeing headlines like: "Europe goes bonkers over Volts" or "GM making tremendous strides thanks to Obama". Can this administration get any weaker in their misdirection?

Libs are clueless, just read this President's campaign manager's response to the Benghazi terror attackers.

http://freebeacon.com/cutter-...

Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter said Thursday that the “entire reason” the terrorist attack at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi that killed four Americans has “become the political topic it is” is because Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan talk about the attack.

STEPHANIE CUTTER: In terms of the politicization of this — you know, we are here at a debate, and I hope we get to talk about the debate — but the entire reason this has become the political topic it is, is because of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. It’s a big part of their stump speech. And it’s reckless and irresponsible what they’re doing.

BROOKE BALDWIN: But, Stephanie, this is national security. As we witnessed this revolution last year, we covered it–

CUTTER: It is absolutely national security–

BALDWIN: –it is absolutely pertinent. People in the American public absolutely have a right to get answers.

Europe already has green cars. What do they need the Volt for?

They don't and more than likely don't want them. They were purchased to make it look like one of Obama's pet projects is a winner.

And these have what to do with each other, exactly? Are you saying that the two decisions were somehow linked?