This is nothing short of stealing taxpayer money for political gain.

They have done this over and over again, and gotten away with it, starting with Whitewater. It's about time they got nabbed.

You can't tell me that multiple laws were not broken in this republican black ops against Hillary

And I know you are not at all surprised!

Surprised by the hubris that is behind this admission. Sadly, I'll be surprised if anything comes of this after the next news cycle.

…drive a truck through this. My fear is that, instead, they will just stand there and stamp their feet.

Only Warren, Sanders, Ellison and a few others know how to clearly make a point and drive it home.

who is the ranking minority member on that committee and who has shown his acumen on dealing with the original sponsor of this fraud - Issa.

I have the highest respect for this man. I think he commands the respect of everyone on the Hill.

So I am agreeing with you on this. His voice will be important and noticed.

...all-too-often-over-used AWESOME!!!

….How?

Ha ha! No way he'll finish this race. Plus, he's from CA and we all know the RW kooks hate CA. The wolves are gonna eat this moron alive!!!

Which is from the Texas/Oklahoma section of California.

I grew up there--for some reason, I left 35 years ago and haven't spent more than a week at a time there since. Go figure!

That made it easier to stick his foot in his mouth!

from the GOP loon leader of the PA State House -

Every Dem should share this on FB and retweet it on Twitter. The MSM can't be trusted to report on this or anything else that harms their gravy train of negative headlines about Hillary.

I can only applaud this move.

The GOP, as an entity, is a Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization, which is comfortable in the knowledge that it is above the law.

We knew what Bush was up to, and we know what these lynch mob politicians were doing.

Fraud is the word that describes the gop. They're grand, they're old, they're frauds.

I don't hate Mrs. Clinton, but I don't trust her, either. Maybe you think distrust is hate when it comes to Mrs. Clinton, but I'm not going to argue semantics,

I do not believe, nor have I ever believed, that the Benghazi hearings were anything but the GOP kicking a dead horse. Mrs. Clinton's poll numbers haven't been dropping because of a ginned up scandal that only gets attention from FoxNews viewers, who aren't going to vote for any Democrat because they are convinced that God will smite them if they do.

Speaking only for myself, I'll be as happy to see the Benghazi hearings end as you will be. Unfortunately, House Republicans are ingenious at finding ways to waste time and taxpayer money on phony investigations.

As for the cause of Mrs. Clinton's lower poll numbers, I suggest you examine your candidate.

So what I said is correct.

This is one of the things about repubs in congress that has been pissing me off for a long time. Crap like this hurts the whole country, not just one candidate.

I don't hate Hillary. I don't like her but I don't hate her and I'm not making shit up to justify my feelings about her. I knew this was bogus from the day it started, and I can't believe our congressmen have allowed this to go on for so long.

There should be repercussions for this, but I have so little faith in our system right now I don't expect anything to happen...or even for it to stop.

Now...how about you quit making stuff up to try and make Sander's supporters look bad.

I did not. So quit making stuff up about me.

that you don't believe any Sander's supporters here on DU, where you posted this, are Hillary haters?

they need to learn from LBJ and use the power of the purse to teach the Rethugs to behave.
Simply put, cut off as much as you can from their districts. They must target Gowdy's district, McCarthy's District, and most of Arkansas (Tom Cotton's seditious letter must not go unpunished.)

ethics committee? They misused our tax dollars.

forced to stop this.

They have found ways to obstruct most of what the country needs - they should not be allowed to use our tax money for political reasons on top of it.

This was never a Hillary Clinton scandal. This is a Republican Party scandal.

They have been caught with their pants down, and it is time to show the voting public that there's nothing there worth looking at.

that I want Trey Gowdy to get on his knees when he apologizes to the families of the Benghazi victims?

Help McCarthy's chances at speaker.

they'll want to pick a liar that lies better.

Shouldn't they have to reimburse the taxpayers for their abuse of funds?

Isn't that a $4.5 million in kind contribution to a political campaign? Perhaps they FEC should look into this.
(only slightly tongue in cheek)

charged under the Hatch Act (I think that is it) where they can't work on campaigns while on the job. What were they doing? What has Issa's group been doing? Trying to play politics by impeaching Obama, except they couldn't find any cause. All the money they wasted on Obamacare...on and on and on for how long? Sheesh! Police yourselves, Democrats and Republicans.

All that is being revealed today has been pointed out by this group and many others. Wake up! If we can see it, why can't you? Bring back our government and quit playing games.

Keep your tongue in mouth...you are right.

was that they would have to be trying to benefit a specific campaign to get some kind of sanction, but maybe not...certainly unethical.

The main mistake they made was that she's very familiar with their tactics from when Bill ran for office. Remember when Hillary blew her stack and brought out the fact that the RW was fabricating issues that were false to try to convince the voters that the Clintons were liars and corrupt? It was the early-on feeding of lies and propaganda to the public 24/7 and it was effective, except that Bill could melt the ice off an igloo and was able to pooh-pooh their rhetoric.

This slip of the lip will fester into a major campaign issue and should. Trumpet (no pun intended) it from the rooftops.

illegal but can't see it happening (an investigation into this committee)--golly gee, might have some Republicans emails made public. I am tired of it all.

He's dumber than the last one.

Let's bring him home like a stray kitten and ask, "Can we keeeep him?"

This McCarthy fella certainly has his pants around his ankles now, doesn't he?

citizens to sue the government for misuse of public money. I'd be willing to be a plaintiff in a class-action suit against the repugs in congress for misusing tax dollars for political purposes.

it's over before it began.

Lock the bastards up who are responsible for this fraud! Perhaps if they spend some time behind bars, the rest of them will learn!

They were discussing this with Bob Ney on Hartmann today. If they misuse their mailing priveledges for campaign materials for/against a candidate, they are required to pay for it. It is closely monitored.

The best for us and the worse for them. I think this is already partial confirmation of my theory that the more right wing the Speaker, the stupider and less effective he will be as Speaker.

Let's keep our fingers crossed for this fellow, because he's a doofus and the opponent we would pick if we could.

Dems just showing up gives a patina of credibility. Expose it for the witch hunt it is.

I know we all knew this was a politically motivated stunt by the GOP from the beginning, but this admission should give that fact legs in the media. I'm sick and tired of letting the Republicans get away with these kind of things! I hope the Democrats beat the Republicans up on this fact for years to come.

The NYT has the story now too.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/us/politics/house-leadership-race.html

This was a disgusting waste of tax dollars.

They call McCarthy a toady for the orange cheeto speaker and that it was an intentional breach, or, he's too stupid to be elected speaker.

this situation is outrageous...

I'm sure there are many people here don't consider this a positive thing.

over this BS!

What a POS...stupid and does Shrub-speak better than Scrub. Unbelievable!

So full of himself -- he boasted about lying to the American public and wasting money that could have been used for purposes that benefit the public. Asshole, dweeb...

personal vendettas and private personal profit.

Let the political parties pay for their own crap investigations (on their own time) and stop using OUR Federal funds and obstructing OUR Federal Government.

Same with the god darned E-MAIL SCANDAL!

So fucking dumb they can't even keep their lies in public straight.

Kevin McCarthy has done us a profound service.

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... for his past criminal acts as a car thief and arsonist amongst other things. Even if the statue of limitations have run out on those issues, to prevent him from being convicted of a crime and put in prison for them, it would at least help Americans more see the truth of who they have running investigations like this in our government to evaluate whether he should continue to do so or even be allowed to be a congressman at all. If they want to continue wasting the tax payer's money on investigating Bengazi crap, then they should know that they are also justifying taxpayer money investigating the criminal acts of those that are responsible for leading this investigation.

Republicans have really screwed up trying to make Benghazi in to an issue that isn't. Instead all they did was obscure the real issue of whether Hillary Clinton had exercised proper judgement in *privatizing* her government email, and the problems associated with doing so, whether or not there were abuses with Benghazi topic emails or not going through it. The Benghazi investigation was just a distraction from looking at it properly for what it was, which was questionable judgement in trying to move emails to a private and less secure infrastructure for unspecified reasons.

Any reason for Dems show up to subsequent hearings?