Posted on 05/05/2014 10:36:34 AM PDT by smoothsailing
May 5, 2014 Press Release
WASHINGTON, DC – House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced today that he has chosen Representative Trey Gowdy (R-SC) to serve as chairman of the select committee to investigate the 2012 tragedy in Benghazi, Libya.
“With four of our countrymen killed at the hands of terrorists, the American people want answers, accountability, and justice. Trey Gowdy is as dogged, focused, and serious-minded as they come. His background as a federal prosecutor and his zeal for the truth make him the ideal person to lead this panel. I know he shares my commitment to get to the bottom of this tragedy and will not tolerate any stonewalling from the Obama administration. I plan to ensure he and his committee have the strongest authority possible to root out all the facts. This is a big job, but Rep. Gowdy has the confidence of this conference, and I know his professionalism and grit will earn him the respect of the American people.”
NOTE: Last week, in response to the release of emails showing the White House was more involved in misleading the American people than previously known and the revelation that the Obama administration had withheld these documents from a Congressional subpoena, Speaker Boehner announced that he was establishing a new select committee to investigate the events surrounding the attack on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012.
Introducing the NEXT Speaker of the House, Trey Gowdy.
You very well may have nailed it, but I'm hoping you're wrong.
“....that matters more than his motive.”
NOT MY POINT. “.....Boehners still the loser he always has been. Let’s not think he’s changed one bit.”
THAT’S my point.
.....have read 3 of the 4 books on Nathan. He for sure would have kicked some butt in these hearings.
Imagine him walking in the hearing room in his full CSA General’s uniform with sword at his side and going to chair the hearing. With his warrior reputation/background (29 hand to hand kills) the room would have cleared in seconds.
He must have been an awesome sight!
Make no mistake, I got your point the first time.
From the article:
“”NOTE: Last week,in response to the release of emails showing the White House was more involved in misleading the American people than previously known and the revelation that the Obama administration had withheld these documents from a Congressional subpoena,Speaker Boehner announced that he was establishing a new select committee to investigate the events surrounding the attack on our consulate in Benghazi,Libya on September 11,2012.”
OK, what did they know, and when did they know it???!!!???
Nixon resigned for less....
Keep the pressure on!!
IMPEACH!!!!!!
CNN building a new set as we speak, The Benghazi hearings, CNN the place to watch.
Join Wolf Blitzer as his team of investigative reporters bring you the very latest as it happens
You think ?
LOL! Biden! Perfect!!
Hello Nathan....I believe you’re right saying...”Serious Choice”.... Which would then seem perhaps Boehner means business as well, or at the least needs to go out with a bang that he’s accomplished something significant..
I agree....that’s dealing with people’s freedom and their money. Imagine what it will be when the IRS has control of Obamacare!
I just visited your page...You’ve been in Russia before? Fascinating. Though todays Russia has changed, the terrain is likely pretty much the same I would imagine..as some of the cities though more modern and developed.
At the end of the day, Russia is hapless because of pervasive cynicism which dominates the culture. American intellectuals amuse themselves by denigrating American boosterism but this optimism is not confected out of the air, it is rooted in a constitutional system, with a rule of law that is respectable and respected, and a fair market which is reasonably fair. None of this works in Russia.
Boosterism is Pollyanna-ish, it has no place in the reality of Russia but that world is rational only because that is a world of corruption, cronyism, brutality, and quite rational cynicism.
For example, Vladimir Putin is admired not for his virtue but for his Machiavellian cynicism, not so much that he is corrupt but that he is successful at being corrupt. If you hate the system, there is a certain logic in a man who beats system and bends it to his will. If you decry Vladimir Putin as a villain you only betray your naïveté, your fatal detachment from the world of reality. The game is not to reform the system but to exploit it. To believe otherwise is to play the fool.
This is a different mindset from the European and American elitist liberals who believe they have sole possession of the secret keys to the kingdom, their solution for utopia. Their naïveté is as dangerous as it is boundless.
Thank you for posting this fascinating discourse which identifies a black hole in Russian history, the absence of the rule at law, which has caused so much pain and which has aborted Russia's recent experiment with democracy.
I am equally glad that you reminded me that The New Centurian can be a wonderful conservative resource. Since you sent me there I started browsing around back issues and came across a fascinating article in the February edition by Andrew C. McCarthy reviewing judge Bork's new book, A Time to Speak: Selected Writings and Arguments. I say the article is fascinating because it considers the problem of the rule law, the absence of which your article identifies to be the central problem in Russia. Judge Bork applies it to America and discusses its perversion. McCarthy identifies both the essence of Bork's message and its importance:
His simple, eloquent message, voiced as insistently at the would-be legal activists of the right as at the left’s meliorist legions, is this: The political seduction of the law is killing American democracy.
Many posters in their replies have begun to apply this message to the regime of Barak Obama. The observations by Judge Bork in the McCarthy article touch on a bugaboo of mine which is the importation of liberal tyranny into our domestic jurisprudence from international sources. McCarthy also applies the insights of Judge Bork explicitly to Obama's radical notions about the proper role of the Constitutionand their destructive effect on the rule of law.
About six years ago I made a business trip to Moscow with a group of German real estate investors. I was very dispirited by what I saw there and posted this on my return:
First, I recall as we were on a chartered bus riding through Moscow we passed the statue of Lenin which was pointed out to our group but the Germans had no particular reaction. I asked my seat mate who is a journalist covering our group, "what do you suppose the reaction would be upon seeing a statue of George Bush? "He laughed without responding to the question directly because it required no answer. Lenin is more popular in Germany than George Bush.
On another occasion we were escorted into an old factory area which had been converted into an office complex and looked like something resembling an American shopping center. We were awaiting the arrival of the entrepreneur who had performed this renovation and who was described to us as a man who could get things done in Moscow because he was a former city councilman, in other words, an apparatchik. The representation was made not by inference but explicitly that this man could achieve entrepreneurial miracles in Moscow because he was connected and in fact would bribe the officials. [The absence of the rule of law was actually being touted as a selling point.]
Our apparatchik was late but eventually the gate opened and three blacked out SUVs came into the courtyard and formed a semi circle around us. Huge men, better described as gorillas, emerged from the vehicles and formed a circle around us sweeping back their coats like Wyatt Earp to reveal very impressive looking firearms at their belts. Only then did Wyatt Earp himself emerge from his SUV and began to address us through an interpreter. He reiterated the pitch: he could do business in Moscow because of his connections.
I said to one on my German colleagues, "how can you be a partner with this man? What do you do in the event of a dispute? He just told us that everything in Russia is corrupt so you get no fair treatment from the courts? Would you hire a bigger gang of thugs to have a shootout to settle your partnership disagreement? No thank you."
Today Russia is a one trick pony: natural resources, oil and gas, with the bulk of that being shipped to my neighbors here in Germany. By the dictates of geography, Russia enjoys considerable leverage over Europe but her destiny is to resemble the Arab Middle East, rich in oil but poor in every other respect.
No rule of law, no vital capitalism. No real capitalism, no real progress.
If I were compelled to offer up one word to describe the situation in Moscow it would be cynicism It is ubiquitous and I believe it will ultimately do great damage to Russian society. It is almost the ultimate application of what we in America call, the critical theory invented by THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL to undermine resistance to communism. The irony ought not to escape us.
“I hope so, but I would like to see Boehner do the same for the inquiry of the IRS scandal but I believe he is not unsympathetic to the cause of suppressing The Tea Party.”
He didn’t become speaker by being a dope. He has an agenda which in my view is not all that different from that of his so-called opposition. And by God he’s going to do what he can to implement it.
Conservatism is just not part of his agenda.
This might have already been answered, but when do the hearings start?
Starr was supposed to be tough, but we learned that he greatly coveted nice words from the liberal media.
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