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
McCarthy not ready for prime time.
I thought they were trying to find out why we left 4 people to die........
Did McCarthy tell the truth? Or is he trying to help Hillary since it is clear none of the GOPe candidates will win?
The first sentence in the article is so stunningly stupid, that I didn’t read any further.
And these a##es wonder why trump is in the lead
He is a complete moron. Tell him to head on back to the hotel and hose that bimbo from NC.
Do Freepers not know who E J Dionne is?
Just another hole in the GOP establishment that tells me we need to dump this load of crap that’s currently heading the GOP, including McCarthy.
I stopped at “E.J. Dionne.”
I was under the impression that it was Judicial Watch and the judge in their case that is driving this e-mail business.
I was not aware that Trey Gowdy has done anything at all.
Got ya! LOL!
But..you mean...they weren’t going for an indictment?
How much did the Valerie Plame fiasco cost, EJ?
Cruz is right. Truth is unimportant to them.
It was intentional .... letting the underlings know that he is just another Boehner without the booze initiated weeping.
EJD is THE MOST insanely stupid journolista...and that’s saying something.
But that is exactly what Congress should have done given the overwhelming evidence and their constitutional responsibility to impeach such traitors. Failing to do so the GOP-led Congress joins with the Traitorobama regime in giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
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