It's amazing that the GOP danced a jig when Boehner stepped down. I thought as many did they might regret it but who thought it would be this fast? Literally in Kevin McCarhty's first interview he turned things upside down.
Boehner hardly belonged on Mt. Rushmore or anything-I mean he's no Nancy Pelosi-or even Mitch McConnell who has a strange propensity for getting things done as a Republican-but compared to McCarthy he does.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/if-only-they-had-boehner
Talk about a guy wholly out of his element.
Now what a turn of events-the NY Times itself, which has been such a locus of Hillary bashing-is now calling on the Benghazi Committee to shutdown.
"House Republicans may be disinclined to disband the Select Committee on Benghazi with the presidential race heating up. But at the very least they should rename their laughable crusade, which has cost taxpayers $4.6 million, “the Inquisition of Hillary Rodham Clinton.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/opinion/shut-down-the-benghazi-committee.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
I kind of like The Committee to not Elect Hillary Clinton. I mean it's literally a Super PAC being run on Congressional grounds-which is a crime, so it's only right for the Dems to demand an investigation of the investigation by the Ethics Committee-even if it won't get far in the GOP House.
Mr. McCarthy is already showing himself to be a bottomless well of levity accuses Democratic critics of the Comittee for playing politics.
"Let’s be very clear: Benghazi is not political," McCarthy said when asked about his comments at a press conference with House leadership, according to National Journal. "It was created for one purpose and one purpose only: to find the truth on behalf of the families of the four dead Americans. Period."
"The integrity of Trey Gowdy, the integrity of the work that has been done has never come into question and it never should be. Stop playing politics," he continued.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/kevin-mccarthy-benghazi-playing-politics
So what exactly is it that Gowdy is still trying to find out after 540 days about Benghazi that the first eight investigations and an additional independent investigation didn't uncover?
"Mrs. Clinton is scheduled to testify before the committee on Oct. 22. The hearing will give Republicans another chance to attack the credibility and trustworthiness of the leading Democratic presidential candidate. It will do nothing to make American embassies abroad safer or help the relatives of the four killed in Libya."
"The hearing should be the last salvo for a committee that has accomplished nothing. If the Republicans insist on keeping the process alive, the Democrats should stop participating in this charade."
Don't get me wrong I don't think Gowdy is particularly looking forward to her testimony. The cat is totally out of the bag.
Boehner hardly belonged on Mt. Rushmore or anything-I mean he's no Nancy Pelosi-or even Mitch McConnell who has a strange propensity for getting things done as a Republican-but compared to McCarthy he does.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/if-only-they-had-boehner
Talk about a guy wholly out of his element.
Now what a turn of events-the NY Times itself, which has been such a locus of Hillary bashing-is now calling on the Benghazi Committee to shutdown.
"House Republicans may be disinclined to disband the Select Committee on Benghazi with the presidential race heating up. But at the very least they should rename their laughable crusade, which has cost taxpayers $4.6 million, “the Inquisition of Hillary Rodham Clinton.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/opinion/shut-down-the-benghazi-committee.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
I kind of like The Committee to not Elect Hillary Clinton. I mean it's literally a Super PAC being run on Congressional grounds-which is a crime, so it's only right for the Dems to demand an investigation of the investigation by the Ethics Committee-even if it won't get far in the GOP House.
Mr. McCarthy is already showing himself to be a bottomless well of levity accuses Democratic critics of the Comittee for playing politics.
"Let’s be very clear: Benghazi is not political," McCarthy said when asked about his comments at a press conference with House leadership, according to National Journal. "It was created for one purpose and one purpose only: to find the truth on behalf of the families of the four dead Americans. Period."
"The integrity of Trey Gowdy, the integrity of the work that has been done has never come into question and it never should be. Stop playing politics," he continued.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/kevin-mccarthy-benghazi-playing-politics
So what exactly is it that Gowdy is still trying to find out after 540 days about Benghazi that the first eight investigations and an additional independent investigation didn't uncover?
"What have we learnt from the BI that these previous investigations didn't uncover?“There’s nothing to justify the committee’s long duration or expense,” said Representative Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California who sits on the committee and has called for it to be disbanded. “We have nothing to tell the families and nothing to tell the American people.”
"Mrs. Clinton is scheduled to testify before the committee on Oct. 22. The hearing will give Republicans another chance to attack the credibility and trustworthiness of the leading Democratic presidential candidate. It will do nothing to make American embassies abroad safer or help the relatives of the four killed in Libya."
"The hearing should be the last salvo for a committee that has accomplished nothing. If the Republicans insist on keeping the process alive, the Democrats should stop participating in this charade."
Don't get me wrong I don't think Gowdy is particularly looking forward to her testimony. The cat is totally out of the bag.
He never wanted this to be public anyway it's been Hillary all along that has demanded this be public.
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