Thursday, May 8, 2014

House to Create Select Committee on Benghazi

++If you have followed the noise of the GOP since the first election of Barack Obama, you would have to conclude they either aimed to impeach him or assassinate him. 

++With today's straight partisan vote on establishing another investigation into Benghazi,Dave Weigel in Slate as picked up by the Washington Monthly, points out that the choice of Trey Gowdy,a prosecutor, is deliberate by Boehner,so he becomes the face of impeachment. Darryl Issa sort of blew it and could not bring home the bacon. Issa's last ditch effort to save his position was to subpoena John Kerry.

++The idea is to impeach President Obama for his dereliction of duty as commander-in chief. 

++Democrats got some salvos in today by questioning why the GOP never wanted an investigation of the deaths in Iraq caused by the lies of the last administration or the practice of torture.

++One worrisome detail about this Select Committee, the GOP has the right to call witnesses but the Democrats have no such ability.

++Frankly, if I were the Democrats, I would refuse to participate. The quotes and tweets of Trey Gowdy have let the cat out of the bag. There is no pretense about objectivity in such a committee.The GOP wants to wound President Obama for the rest of his term and try and block Hillary Clinton's run for the Presidency. There is no other reason. Gowdy even screwed up when he listed three questions that he wanted answered, which journalists have pointed out that they had been.

++The selection of witnesses is key. I expect they will not agree to hear the Accountabity Review Committee, which Issa tried to avoid.

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