Rep. Trey Gowdy, the new chairman of the select committee assigned to investigate the 2012 attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya — vowed Sunday the process would be fair, factual and nonpartisan.
“I have no friends to reward and no foes to punish,” the South Carolina Republican said on “Fox News Sunday.” “We’re going to go wherever the facts take us. Facts are neither Republican nor Democratic, they are facts.”
“If we overplay our hand or we engage in a process that is not fair according to the American people, then we will be punished, as we should be,” Gowdy told Fox’s Chris Wallace.
Gowdy pushed back on the notion that he was treating the chairmanship like a judicial prosecution — walking back a comment earlier last week where he said: “I can’t end a trial simply because the defense won’t cooperate.”
“For 16 years, I spoke in trial metaphors and perhaps I need to get out of that habit,” the former prosecutor said Sunday.
Anybody who watched Gowdy embarrass South Carolina, and the rest of America during his previous Benghazi hearings, while he was questioning Kathleen Sebelius, and during the ridiculous IRS hearings, has no reason to believe that he will conduct himself in a reasonable and respectful manner during this latest witch hunt.
And as for the rest of the Republican party?
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Saturday, while waiting to vote in a local school election, one of the poll workers made a crappy comment about how awful the president is today, compared to one in the past, something like Nixon wasn't a bad president compared to the current one. I turned around and looked at the guy, asking, "Aren't political discussions forbidden here?" A woman co-worker of his said what is forbidden is discussing specifically the vote at hand; so, in essence, anything else is not.
ReplyDeleteWhen I turned to this guy to collect my number to take to the voting machine, I told him I fully support the president. He made some asshole remark about wanting to school me somehow, as I went on to cast my vote. Seething, I left the place quietly, only acknowledging the woman who'd thanked me for voting.
I couldn't believe that the asshole guy followed me outside to challenge me. He said, "Benghazi" many times; what about Benghazi? I told him it all was bullshit; there's nothing there. The Republicans don't have anything else to throw at the President, and Obamacare is going great. He kept saying Benghazi this, and Benghazi that. Remembering your earlier post, Gryphen, I told him that at least 60 Americans died at different consulates during Bush's reign, and the Republicans didn't tie themselves up in knots over the losses of life there. Of course, he acknowledge nothing about THAT. Just that more about Benghazi facts would be forthcoming, and then I'd see...
I was furious to be challenged by a dipshit in a polling place like that. But now I truly understand and have experienced firsthand what robotic mindsets are out there in the world of rightwingnuttery.
Elsie
Once again the state of SC has come up with another way of embarrassing it's citizens. This idiot may become our senior Senator, too!
ReplyDeleteThere is now a LOT of pressure against Graham's re-election. There are at least six people from the scone party vying for his job. Of course, not a single one of them is even CLOSE to being "as good as" (sorry, but I couldn't think of anything else to say there) as Graham. He may be another loud mouthed Benghazi nut, but he at least knows there are times compromise is necessary!
This jackass? You tell me.
Hey Trey, why the long face?
ReplyDeleteAlso too, ski slope nose job!
DeleteBenghazi!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/2014/05/11/michelle-bachmann-recall-single-fact-uncovered-benghazi-defends-gop-conspiracy.html
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/05/11/john-boehner-admits-irs-scandal-impeaching-obama-holder.html
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/05/11/democratic-congressman-fox-news-destroys-benghazi-hysteria.html
Beirut Barracks vs. Benghazi
ReplyDeleteRepublicans are trying to criminalize a tragedy—wholly unprecedented, even after 241 Marines died because of a massive U.S. intelligence failure.
One of the most maddening things about this Benghazi nonsense is the way Republicans have gotten a lot of Americans to go along with the idea that 10 investigations of something is normal; that as long as there’s one unanswered question, one area where the administration’s position is ambiguous or where its cooperation has been anything other than the immediate handing over of any conceivably related document, we still need to get to the bottom of matters.
People believe this because—first of all, partisans in heat believe it because they want to pin some kind of blame on Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. But even some people who aren’t diehard partisans believe it because, well, it seems to make sense. That’s what we do. We get to the bottom of things.
That’s what we do, that is, when it comes to the law. When there’s a question of legal guilt or innocence, of course we want all the facts needed to make the proper legal determination. But what about when there is no question of legal guilt or innocence, and it’s just a political matter? Of course we still want to know what happened, but in these cases it’s not chiefly to determine guilt or innocence, since there is none; it’s to get an honest accounting of what happened to try to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
I’m trying to explain as calmly as I can here, to readers with no allegiance to either party, why what the Republicans are doing with Benghazi is so out of bounds. They are turning a political situation into a legal case. They’re trying to impose the standards of the courtroom onto a place where they clearly don’t belong. It’s an awful, poisonous precedent, especially given that the incident in question was a tragedy. Using a national tragedy, the kind of event that used to unite Americans, to turn a political matter into a legal one is just a shocking thing to do, wholly outside the American tradition.
Which brings me to Beirut.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/09/beirut-barracks-vs-benghazi.html
Did somebody's pet owl escape?
ReplyDeleteYes, not to berate the deaths of four Americans because Congress underfunded defense for Embassies, but fundraising on the issue, after stomping their feet isn't a slap in the face to their deaths and their families grief is just fine!
ReplyDeleteHey Trey, if you got no foes to fear, why not show up on any show on MSNBC and spew your nonsense?
Where did he get that terrible nose-job?
ReplyDeleteAs an American and a South Carolinian I could not be prouder of Trey Gowdy.
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