Video: Romney Slams Cutter, Biden Over Benghazi Remarks

Posted: Oct 12, 2012 2:14 PM

How big of a mistake was Stephanie Cutter's accidental revelation of the truth yesterday on CNN?  Mediaite is openly wondering whether she was trying to hand Mitt Romney the foreign policy debate on a platter.  That's not how she saw it, though, doubling down on Fox and fleeing Katie's questions before last night's debate.  Cutter's Special Report appearance is especially revealing because it indicates that Team Obama has given her the green light to maintain her repulsive "blame Romney" posture.  The impulse to blame and attack runs deep in Chicago, and it's beyond tiresome at this point:


"Next time I'll bring my notes."

With the ball placed carefully on the tee, let's send it over to you, Mitt Romney:



Well said.  The preventable, lethal 9/11 attack was terrible and outrageous in itself, obviously.  But it's the disintegrating cover-up that truly constitutes "playing politics" here, and if anything, Republicans have held back in their criticism.  Given appalling accounts like the one we witnessed on Anderson Cooper's show Wednesday night, this should be a political disaster for the Obama administration.  They've screwed up royally, four Americans are dead, and they've been caught misleading the public on numerous key elements of the attack.

UPDATE - In Virginia today, Romney seized on Biden's comments at the debate and turned up the heat, accusing the Vice President of "doubling down on denial:"


UPDATE II - Wow.  A new low:



In an attempt to shield the president politically (and excuse Biden's lies at the debate), the administration is officially admitting that the White House had no clue what was going on in Libya.  Astonishing. This president unilaterally waged a war of choice in that country -- ignoring and abusing the law along the way -- bragged about it as an accomplishment, then washed his hands of it.  The president was asleep at the switch, and four Americans died -- including a US ambassador.  Now that these developments have turned problematic back home (Mitt Romney's fault, natch), other administration officials are trying to take the fall...but they're making the Commander-in-Chief look even more feckless, unengaged, and irresponsible than first thought.  This isn't just gross incompetence.  It's deadly incompetence.