Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forum#HILLARYMEN: Benghazi Is Finished: Republicans Bet and Lost on the Graves of 4 American Heroes (HRC)
....So radically has the political earth shifted since would-be Speaker Kevin McCarthys stunning but not surprising admission that the House Benghazi (and email) probe of Hillary Clinton was entirely driven by the Republican desire to bring down her numbers, that Democrats are now rightfully in full attack mode against the special committee.
The GOP had it coming.
Since the tragic deaths of four Americans in Benghazi three years ago, Republicans have sought to make political hay first against President Obama and then against the Secretary of State likely to succeed him in the White House. Their multiple and duplicative and to the taxpayers, costly investigations have been little more than a transparent effort to taint Hillary, allowing them to open a second front in the war to block America's first female president by creating the over-hyped email narrative.
Throughout the entire process, our national political press, beginning (but not ending) with the political desk of the august New York Times, have played the role of willing dupes, sucking down leaks from Trey Gowdys committee like so many peanut M&Ms after an attack of the munchies. The political press and the GOP strategy were like two upright poles leaning against each other to form an arbor through which Hillarys political enemies could march but those poles have been kicked away....
Some pundits are referring to the McCarthy admission as a gift or a gaffe. But it is neither. Rather, its an admission of the ugly truth in the kind of explicit manner rarely seen in Washington.
The New McCarthyism is a wager that the American people wont care, that fear will allow the Republicans to continue to exploit their cynical and unethical (non)investigation for political purposes. But it is a bet they will lose....
http://www.hillarymen.com/latest/benghazi-is-finished via #HillaryMen (Peter Daou and Tom Watson)
randys1
(16,286 posts)Not ONE living breathing GOP or teaparty who says they care about these 4, do, of course.
Even if you argue that they cared about the lost soldiers, how can they say that when they are the first ones sending them into harms way, aren't all these cons gung ho to fight a war now in Iran?
Yes, I think so
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)in Benghazi. Without any mercy towards the families I don't know what purpose this committee can reach other than it is a sham.
Walk away
(9,494 posts)it was an active participant in this ugly smear. They seem willing to print almost anything to hurt the Clintons.