It was the worst of all possible days for the GOP. Not only did they not hurt HRC but they helped her.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/10/hillary-clinton-sounded-presidential-at.html
Which kind of suggests they would have been better not holding the hearings at all. Indeed, Gowdy had never wanted her testimony to be public.
After all the optics of this sort of hearing makes the person interrogated look sympathetic, and then you have HRC's command of the information and her tirelessness.
I mean no other candidate Democrat or Republican could have handled a grilling like that. I don't know many people period who could.
So the GOP insisted on doing this even though it's actually hurt them-as it has improved HRC's position. It was a frightful grilling but it was at the same time 11 hours of free advertising.
Meanwhile, Congressman Cummings won the day in his demand for the Blumenthal and other transcripts to be made public.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/10/a-big-win-for-elijah-cummings-as-full.html
Now the GOP is having to pull back on the email focus of Benghazi.
"Amid growing Democratic accusations of overreaching, especially on the matter of Hillary Clinton’s emails, Republicans on the House Benghazi Committee are now reconsidering how aggressively to pursue the email scandal that’s been dogging the Democratic front-runner."
"The committee is also undecided about whether to call ex-Clinton campaign staffer Heather Samuelson, who helped screen Clinton’s State Department emails, according to a GOP source. Just a few weeks ago, GOP members of the panel were eager to question Samuelson, because panel sources say she was the lawyer who initially chose which of Clinton’s emails were work-related — and thus should be turned over to the State Department — and which would ultimately get deleted."
"Now, however, Republicans are debating whether to bring her in."
“The question becomes: Is it worth the hassle and the drama?” the GOP source said.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/house-gop-reconsiders-email-probe-scope-215119#ixzz3pV193Ty3
That's probably the question that they should ask about this whole partisan exercise. The irony is that maybe it fires up the GOP base but it fires up the Dem base just as much at this point.
When does it become the law of diminishing returns?
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/10/hillary-clinton-sounded-presidential-at.html
Which kind of suggests they would have been better not holding the hearings at all. Indeed, Gowdy had never wanted her testimony to be public.
After all the optics of this sort of hearing makes the person interrogated look sympathetic, and then you have HRC's command of the information and her tirelessness.
I mean no other candidate Democrat or Republican could have handled a grilling like that. I don't know many people period who could.
So the GOP insisted on doing this even though it's actually hurt them-as it has improved HRC's position. It was a frightful grilling but it was at the same time 11 hours of free advertising.
Meanwhile, Congressman Cummings won the day in his demand for the Blumenthal and other transcripts to be made public.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/10/a-big-win-for-elijah-cummings-as-full.html
Now the GOP is having to pull back on the email focus of Benghazi.
"Amid growing Democratic accusations of overreaching, especially on the matter of Hillary Clinton’s emails, Republicans on the House Benghazi Committee are now reconsidering how aggressively to pursue the email scandal that’s been dogging the Democratic front-runner."
"The committee is also undecided about whether to call ex-Clinton campaign staffer Heather Samuelson, who helped screen Clinton’s State Department emails, according to a GOP source. Just a few weeks ago, GOP members of the panel were eager to question Samuelson, because panel sources say she was the lawyer who initially chose which of Clinton’s emails were work-related — and thus should be turned over to the State Department — and which would ultimately get deleted."
"Now, however, Republicans are debating whether to bring her in."
“The question becomes: Is it worth the hassle and the drama?” the GOP source said.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/10/house-gop-reconsiders-email-probe-scope-215119#ixzz3pV193Ty3
That's probably the question that they should ask about this whole partisan exercise. The irony is that maybe it fires up the GOP base but it fires up the Dem base just as much at this point.
When does it become the law of diminishing returns?
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