Thursday, May 8, 2014

Benghazi!!!--The Film

++I lost count of how many times the House repealed Obamacare and now I have lost count of how many times Benghazi has been investigated. There latest I have read is a dozen times ,including the State Department's Accountability Review Board.

++While Trey Gundy claims this new Special Committee would be a "trial", not a Kangaroo count.He also asked Republicans not to fund-raise off Benghazi. But that would be too much. Rinse Penis has already set up the website at the RNC, where you too can contribute money to be a Benghazi observer. John Boehner said today that he would not ask the RNC from raising money off Benghazi. The RNC fund-raising appeal is particularly interesting--it said that the Special Committee was to hold President Obama and Hillary Clinton responsible--not to independently investigate the issue.

++Having suffered through the IRS fiasco with Rep. Issa, Rep. Clyburn has come out for a Democratic boycott of the Special Committee.

++Nancy Pelosi had asked for equal representation as is on the ethics committee. She was turned down. The meme from the conservatives is that she didn't allow equal representation for the "Climate Change" panel under George W. Bush. But Steny Hoyer has said that there is a real possibility the Democrats will boycott.

++Hillary Clinton has weighed in saying that there is not much to investigate further.

++Lindsey Graham who is the leak for the 60 Minutes piece on Benghazi that turned out to be wrong says the GOP has learned a lot since the 1990 scandals. That "we know when you shoot watermelons you are on the wrong path." Cue in: Stephen King who has asked that the autopsy photos of Ambassador Stevens be made public. Classy.

++The GOP said they would keep the panel going until 2016. I guess that telegraphs their message.

++I think what is worrisome is the contempt citation of Lois Lerner by the House because she invoked her Fourth Amendment Rights. The contempt citation for invoking your Fourth has not been done since Joe McCarthy did it.

++A note about this. Darryl Issa had called her back to testify and claimed that she was willing not to invoke the Fourth. True but he got the day wrong and she had agreed to testify the following week but he called her when she was unprepared. So Contempt.

++Ricky Cantor has asked Eric Holder to prosecute her. I find this bizarre.

++So the GOP is sticking to their Trifecta of Scandals--Benghazi, IRS and Obamacare. The Obamacare issue will come around with the new Court case that argues that Harry Reid did the legislative process wrong because Obamacare should have originated in the House. I worry about this case because of the judges in the case.

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