Posted on 09/30/2015 6:27:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Edited on 09/30/2015 10:48:46 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
So now we know: One of the principal reasons Republicans spent so much public money investigating the tragic Benghazi episode was to bring down Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the likely successor to House Speaker John Boehner, told Fox News’ Sean Hannity explicitly on Tuesday night that the Clinton investigation was part of a “strategy to fight and win.”
He explained: “Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping. Why? Because she’s untrustable. But no one would have known any of that had happened, had we not fought.”
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The Republican-led House hasn’t been particularly good at governing, but perhaps governing has never been the point. Why govern when there’s a future election to influence?
No doubt Republicans will clean up after McCarthy’s comments by insisting that the politics were a side benefit from a necessary investigation. But it would be nice to know more about the House GOP’s internal deliberations as it launched one inquiry into Clinton after another. Did we need another investigation by the select committee headed by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.? After all, a two-year investigation by the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee cleared the military and the CIA of improper behavior in response to the 2012 attack on the diplomatic compound at Benghazi.
Taxpayers might be interested in learning whether their hard-earned money—sorry, I could not resist invoking that favorite GOP cliche—was going out the door primarily to affect the chances of one particular candidate for president. How much? Rob Garver of the Fiscal Times has estimated that the select committee “will likely spend some $6 million by next year.”
Excerpt, read more at Washington Post
Whatever, I do not think the author has a clue.
Obviously not. Lots of stupid FReepers, eager to swallow everything they read. More and more, they don’t consider the source, and react just as the progressives want them to react.
McCarthy is in the tank for Hillary.
That and the idle curiosity about how and why four Americans including an ambassador were slaughtered like animals while our government watched.
Well, then bring down the White Hut by finding out about what really happened with Extortion 17. Did Hillary’s e-mails and server give their mission away?
“Untrustable”?
Moron.
The idiot just made the Benghazi Committee a partisan political tool whether it was before or not. Way to hand Hillary and the Dems an excuse.
Now we know why he was Boner’s right-hand man.
I didn’t know that he was but that makes sense. Now we know why Boner has refused to back up the Benghazi committee when it needed his support to get subpoenas. Also the committees on Fast and Furious and IRS/Lerner.
Boner personally picked him as his replacement.
It is all for show and not to prosecute or punish anyone.....
E.J. Dionne reasons like a child.
Here is the video:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4519442873001/rep-kevin-mccarthy-how-he-would-differ-from-john-boehner/?#sp=show-clips
At 4:40 Hillary and Benghazi is talked about. McCarthy said that a select committee and today her numbers are down because she is untrustable,
BTW, McCarthy was pretty good.
Somebody should stuff that video down Dion's throat.
McCarthy not ready for prime time.
Yep. I heard part of his interview with Hannity and his BS was not smooth at all. He’s not a good liar.
Apparently, a steady diet of wine and cheese has affected his judgement. Disqualified himself, IMO.
untrustable?
Does not compute.
Eff you McCarthy, YOU SLIMY DOUCHEBAG
WASHINGTONIANS RAUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hannity is part of the problem.
We all knew McCarthy was NO DIFFERENT THAN BOEHNER when he ascended to Majority Leader.
HANNITY is a CHUMP.
Hey SEAN HANNITY.
You are AFRAID to fight the RNC and declare that DOUCHEBAG MCCARTHY UNFIT TO BE SPEAKER.
Don’t you have enough cash?
Stop being a pussy.
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