97 House Republican’s send a letter to the President expressing their opposition to a Susan Rice SoS nomination:

From the letter:

We, the undersigned are deeply troubled by your recent comments that you are considering Susan Rice to succeed Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. Though Ambassador Rice has been our Representative to the U.N., we believe her misleading statements over the days and weeks following the attack on our embassy in Libya that led to the deaths of Ambassador Stevens and three other Americans caused irreparable damage to her credibility both at home and around the world.

Huh? I know the GOP has been advancing their conspiracy theory about Rice’s single round of appearances on the Sunday after the attack, but what further statements are they citing here? Or is that just their typical wildly exaggerating rhetoric?

In her interviews over that time, Ambassador Rice propagated a falsehood that the attacks were “spontaneous,” the outcome of a protest “spun out of control,” and the result of a YouTube video.

Not quite. She followed the declassified talking points nearly verbatim, which didn’t definitively state anything, and instead stressed that investigations were ongoing, that what she was providing was the current best intelligence assessment at the time, subject to change as more information came in. Also, again, as per the talking-points, she said the current assessment suggested it was a spontaneous response to what had transpired in Cairo.

Ambassador Rice is widely viewed as having either willfully or incompetently misled the American public in the Benghazi matter.

Actually, the only reason anyone on the planet might consider her Sunday show appearances remotely notable is that you lot have been trying so very hard to disseminate unhinged conspiracy theories and discredit her.

Her actions give U.S. allies (and rivals) broad reason to question U.S. commitment and credibility when needed. Thus, we believe that making her the face of U.S. foreign policy in your second term would greatly undermine your desire to improve U.S. relations with the world and continue to build trust with the American people.

Again, just because you’re doing your darnedest to damage the credibility of our U.N. ambassador on the worldwide stage doesn’t make it any more than wishful thinking that you’ve succeeded.

In light of this troubling situation and the continued unanswered questions, we strongly appose any efforts to nominate Ambassador Susan Rice for the position of Secretary of State.

Well, too bad for you lot that as members of the House of Representatives you have exactly zero say in the matter. Also, it’s kind of sad you’ve only managed to rustle up 97 members of your caucus — what happened to all the rest of the wingnut caucus?