This is a good tell, that yesterday was a huge bust for GOP. Trey Gowdy admits that nothing new was learned. Now Erickson and other conservative pundits are dismissing it:
"The hearings are a waste of time because everything about it is politicized and nothing is going to happen. There will be no scalp collection," Erickson wrote in a blog post. "In fact, it is clear from today’s hearing that Trey Gowdy and Peter Roskam seem to be the only two people on the committee of either party who are capable of asking exacting, precise questions. Most of the rest of the committee just wants to grandstand for the folks back home as either prosecutors of or defenders of Hillary Clinton."
Erickson wrote that Clinton "is far too bright to be trapped in this or any questions."
"He said that the hearing was delegitimized by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) recent comments about the committee before the Clinton hearing on Thursday even began."
"It was all a political spectacle. God bless Trey Gowdy for trying to learn the facts and understand what happened. But the rest of it was just a carnival road show of backbench congresscritters playing to the cameras and Hillary Clinton working hard to play persecuted victim," Erickson concluded.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/erick-erickson-benghazi-hearing-waste-time
Bryon York also agrees Benghazi was a bust:
"After the House Select Committee on Benghazi concluded its 11-hour long hearing with Hillary Clinton, a few conservative commentators bemoaned that the testimony didn't turn up any results."
"The Washington Examiner's Byron York wrote on Thursday that while he thinks the members of the committee still need certain information from Clinton, the hearing devolved into a spectacle."
"The hearings are a waste of time because everything about it is politicized and nothing is going to happen. There will be no scalp collection," Erickson wrote in a blog post. "In fact, it is clear from today’s hearing that Trey Gowdy and Peter Roskam seem to be the only two people on the committee of either party who are capable of asking exacting, precise questions. Most of the rest of the committee just wants to grandstand for the folks back home as either prosecutors of or defenders of Hillary Clinton."
Erickson wrote that Clinton "is far too bright to be trapped in this or any questions."
"He said that the hearing was delegitimized by House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) recent comments about the committee before the Clinton hearing on Thursday even began."
"It was all a political spectacle. God bless Trey Gowdy for trying to learn the facts and understand what happened. But the rest of it was just a carnival road show of backbench congresscritters playing to the cameras and Hillary Clinton working hard to play persecuted victim," Erickson concluded.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/erick-erickson-benghazi-hearing-waste-time
Bryon York also agrees Benghazi was a bust:
"After the House Select Committee on Benghazi concluded its 11-hour long hearing with Hillary Clinton, a few conservative commentators bemoaned that the testimony didn't turn up any results."
"The Washington Examiner's Byron York wrote on Thursday that while he thinks the members of the committee still need certain information from Clinton, the hearing devolved into a spectacle."
"There's a reason Benghazi Committee chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy offered Hillary Clinton the chance to testify in a private, closed hearing. And there's a reason Clinton wanted to appear in an open setting, with the whole world watching," he wrote.
York said that the hearing was sidetracked by partisan bickering and questions about side issues.
"The result was a marathon hearing that didn't accomplish much," he wrote.
"York also lamented that Republicans on the committee had a "near-obsession" withSidney Blumenthal, a longtime Clinton ally who sent Hillary Clinton emails about Libya while she was secretary of state."
"So a hearing billed as an epic, High Noon-style confrontation — granted, the hype came from the media, not Republican committee members themselves — instead turned out to be a somewhat interesting look at a few limited aspects of the Benghazi affair," he concluded. "In other words, no big deal. And that is very, very good news for Hillary Clinton."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/byron-york-benghazi-hearing-bust
Part of the problem, is that the political nature of the exercise is no longer possible to avoid. But the Blumenthal obsession certainly did nothing to allay this sense.
York is suggesting that there are still legitimate questions that the previous eight committees didn't cover.
But what exactly? Surely if these existed Gowdy would have talked about them. They talked about Blumenthal in large part as this is all they've got.
The truth is, despite Gowdy's rather shocking dismissing of the work the previous committees did-it's one thing to claim they didn't get all the information needed; Gowdy went further and dismissed the previous work as basically dog shit-there is nothing new.
The claim that there is something new to learn that only a look at every single email HRC ever received is simply laughable.
Anyway, if this is what the Right wing pundits are saying, clearly it was a waste of time. I'd say it's worse than that-it has positively helped Hillary Clinton.
York said that the hearing was sidetracked by partisan bickering and questions about side issues.
"The result was a marathon hearing that didn't accomplish much," he wrote.
"York also lamented that Republicans on the committee had a "near-obsession" withSidney Blumenthal, a longtime Clinton ally who sent Hillary Clinton emails about Libya while she was secretary of state."
"So a hearing billed as an epic, High Noon-style confrontation — granted, the hype came from the media, not Republican committee members themselves — instead turned out to be a somewhat interesting look at a few limited aspects of the Benghazi affair," he concluded. "In other words, no big deal. And that is very, very good news for Hillary Clinton."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/byron-york-benghazi-hearing-bust
Part of the problem, is that the political nature of the exercise is no longer possible to avoid. But the Blumenthal obsession certainly did nothing to allay this sense.
York is suggesting that there are still legitimate questions that the previous eight committees didn't cover.
But what exactly? Surely if these existed Gowdy would have talked about them. They talked about Blumenthal in large part as this is all they've got.
The truth is, despite Gowdy's rather shocking dismissing of the work the previous committees did-it's one thing to claim they didn't get all the information needed; Gowdy went further and dismissed the previous work as basically dog shit-there is nothing new.
The claim that there is something new to learn that only a look at every single email HRC ever received is simply laughable.
Anyway, if this is what the Right wing pundits are saying, clearly it was a waste of time. I'd say it's worse than that-it has positively helped Hillary Clinton.
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