The various partisan inquiries into the deadly 2012 terror attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi have looked like fishing expeditions chasing minnows. Republicans seem to be hoping that, like special prosecutor Ken Starr in his exhaustive investigation of President Clinton in the 1990s, they will be lucky enough to turn up something -- anything! -- that implicates President Obama or former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in nefarious deeds.
Starr found nothing incriminating concerning Whitewater, Paula Jones or the firing of White House Travel agents. But he did find Monica Lewinsky. Once the president lied about getting oral sex from the young intern, it was off to the races. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives impeached the president -- and promptly lost seats in the 1988 congressional elections, the first time since 1822 that the party out of the White House had seen its numbers in Congress go down in the middle of a president’s second term.
Now, in 2014, facing another midterm election in a Democratic president’s final years in office, Republicans had hoped to bludgeon Democratic candidates with the failed and unpopular new healthcare law. Unfortunately for them, that law has not failed and is becoming more popular by the day. As a result, “Remember Benghazi,” not “Stop Obamacare,” has become the rallying cry they are employing to rev up their base.
I have been saying this for some time now, and it looks like most of the MSM are reaching similar conclusions.
I actually believe that the American people are pretty much on the same page as well. Unless of course they are receiving all of their information concerning Benghazi from Fox News.
Fortunately that demographic is shrinking day by day.
Saturday, I found out firsthand how rabid the Benghazi mouth breathers are.
ReplyDeleteAs I waited to vote in a local school election, a poll worker heard a voter’s name as “Dixon”, but then learned it was “Nixon”. When he realized his mistake, he made a couple of comments about how Nixon really wasn't such a bad president, nothing like the criminal we have for a president today. I looked at the guy, saying, "Aren't political discussions forbidden here?" A different poll worker said no one was allowed to discuss the school bond being voted on.
When I turned to the angry guy to collect my number to take to the voting machine, I told him, "I fully support the president." I swear: that is ALL I said. He growled something about wanting to make me better informed. I just moved on to cast my vote. I left the place seething, although I did acknowledge a female poll worker who thanked me for voting.
I couldn't believe that this jackass followed me outside the building and called to me to wait up! He charged up to me, saying, "Benghazi" many times; “What about Benghazi?” I told him it was all bullshit; there's nothing there. Republicans don't have anything else to throw at the President, and Obamacare is going great. He kept saying Benghazi this, and Benghazi that. I told him that at least 60 Americans died at different consulates during Bush's reign, and Republicans didn't tie themselves up in knots over the loss of life there. He ignored that, of course, just growling that more Benghazi facts would be forthcoming, and then I'd see... About a minute later, he growled out some final b.s. and turned back to the school.
I was furious to be challenged by a “maroon” like that when going to vote in a school election! Later, I located the name of a school district official to file a report on the jerk and emailed it late yesterday. No response yet.
Elsie
"... and promptly lost seats in the 1988 congressional elections"
ReplyDeleteHopefully, that's just a typo. It was, of course, 1998.
Gryphen, are you really that naive? You need a history lesson, dude!
ReplyDeleteBenghazi!! is our generation's Teapot Dome Scandal. And Obama - along with that Clinton woman - will suffer the same fate as Grover Cleveland! (or possibly William Taft, as I'm not exactly sure who was president during Tea Pot Dome. But that does NOT exonerate Obama!)
There is a straight line from The Grassy Knoll in Dallas through Watergate, Whitewater, New Coke, Iran Contra, Billy Ray Cyrus, Vince Foster, Oklahoma City, Justin Bieber, Waco, Ruby Ridge, Deke Snowden and now Benghazi!! And it all goes right thru Monocle Lewinsky's underpants! You're either too uninformed or too much the Obama fanboi to see it!
I feel sorry for you! smh
All you have to do is read the microcode in that little security strip on the new fifty dollar bill, man! It's ALL there! (Plus next week's winning MegaMillions lottery numbers.)
You libtards don't even know it, but Obama's days as president are numbered. He struts around like a big shot now, but give it a couple years and everyone'll be all, like, "Obama? Who's that?" President? No! The President is named Thad "Thad!" McCotter!"
The truth about Benghazi may take decades to uncover, just like we still don't know who shot J.R., but the GOP Select Committee on Fictional Assaults still meets every week to try to figure what happened on the 80s hit TV show and its recent semi-popular cable revival.
Some day the truth about Benghazi will be known. And, given the total lack of incriminating evidence, all we brave (and deluded) tee potty patriots can do now is pray to Jeebus for a miracle that will prove Obama and Hillary personally planned, ordered, executed and covered-up the attack on the Libyan diplomatic compound in 2012.
Until that day, let's keep our tin foil hats secured tightly to our noggins and endlessly repeat "Benghazi!!" just like we were instructed to do by Fox Newz.
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One correction, Gryph:
ReplyDeleteKen Starr very narrowly defined "sex" as "the insertion of the penis into the vagina for the sexual gratification of both parties"
(or something very similar to that).
Clinton put his dick in her mouth and didn't give one flying shit if Monica was "sexually gratified" and thus, Clinton did NOT lie when he said "I did not have sex with that woman"
...because of Ken Starr's stupid, stupid definition of sex.
Of course, it turned out that it didn't matter...
the Republicans got their pound of flesh and in the process made US politics the dirty, dirty game it is today.
Meanwhile, Newt Gingrich - who was getting many, many blowjobs while cheating on his wife (wives) shut down the government and eventually had to resign as Speaker of the House under the cloud of 84 counts of ethics violations.
Newt ran for President under the Republican banner in 2012
...because, you know - Republicans are the party of Christian Values.
Perhaps someone should ask these GOP dopes about the $300 million THEY cut from embassy budgets in 2011 and 2012. Yeah, they care a LOT, don't they.
ReplyDeleteInteresting Elinor Clift column on Benghazi.
ReplyDelete(note the missing exclamation points...)
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/15/my-benghazi-scandal.html
Get the name right, BJC.
DeleteIt's Eleanor. Not Elinor.
smh
Great Article!
DeleteLate night comedians will save this country.
ReplyDeleteBenghazi is fodder for them and the more the right screams Benghazi, the more the late night hosts will make the GOP look like the clowns and fools they are.
I was flipping though channels today and there were tributes to the new 9-11 memorial on every channel except one that guards the henhouse. Care to guess what they where yammering about?
ReplyDeleteThe President who Took Down Bin Laden after eight years of empty promises, then a newsflash that President Bush didn't know, nor care of his whereabouts was at the site's opening, respectfully honoring the memorial and the sacrifices made by so many.
Early on when it first broke, there was "news" reported on Fox about Steven's body being sodomized and dragged through the streets, later proven wrong, but fox acted like it happened anyway. And today, when every other station was showing the news full size, they were beating a dead horse while 911 remained on the newscrawler.
They got nothing with Ken Starr, and they'll get nothing from BenGhazi. The ACA is here to stay, so they'll get zero traction.