Posted on 09/30/2015 6:27:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Edited on 09/30/2015 10:48:46 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
So now we know: One of the principal reasons Republicans spent so much public money investigating the tragic Benghazi episode was to bring down Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers.
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the likely successor to House Speaker John Boehner, told Fox News’ Sean Hannity explicitly on Tuesday night that the Clinton investigation was part of a “strategy to fight and win.”
He explained: “Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping. Why? Because she’s untrustable. But no one would have known any of that had happened, had we not fought.”
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The Republican-led House hasn’t been particularly good at governing, but perhaps governing has never been the point. Why govern when there’s a future election to influence?
No doubt Republicans will clean up after McCarthy’s comments by insisting that the politics were a side benefit from a necessary investigation. But it would be nice to know more about the House GOP’s internal deliberations as it launched one inquiry into Clinton after another. Did we need another investigation by the select committee headed by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.? After all, a two-year investigation by the Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee cleared the military and the CIA of improper behavior in response to the 2012 attack on the diplomatic compound at Benghazi.
Taxpayers might be interested in learning whether their hard-earned money—sorry, I could not resist invoking that favorite GOP cliche—was going out the door primarily to affect the chances of one particular candidate for president. How much? Rob Garver of the Fiscal Times has estimated that the select committee “will likely spend some $6 million by next year.”
Excerpt, read more at Washington Post
Nice try, Kevin.
Judicial Watch did the heavy lifting.
You guys just waited for State to send you emails.
Even Trey Gowdy recognizes now that was a big mistake.
When is your tanning appointment, Kev?
With friends like McCarthy, who needs enemies?
Hey Kevin, go home, your mom called and said to send you home for dinner!
Mcarthy’s appearance on Hannity was the very first time I laid eyes on the man.
I was not -at all - impressed.
What, progressives (in either party) care about 4 people being murdered? In what world?
I saw McCarthy on Hannity last night. The above is exactly what I took McCarthy's words to mean.
So the GOPe used the Benghazi hearings for politics, how I detest these people.
McCarthy:
What you are going to see is a conservative speaker that takes a conservative congress that puts a strategy to fight and win. And let me give you one example. Everybody thought that Hillary was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi Special Committee, a Select Committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping. Why? ‘Cause she is untrustable. But nobody would have known what had happened had we not fought and made that happen.
If you are a left wing delusional useful savant idiot, who is OK with making up a story that a video caused the Benghazi attack (and have that video maker put in jail), and that the attack was an instantaneous riot that had nothing to do with terrorism, and that Hillary did her utmost to protect the Ambassador and staff, and that our Military has no capability to go in and pull out Americans under extreme circumstances; then yes the Hillary Investigation is political.
But if you are a normal person, who thinks it is odd that an Ambassador, a staffer and two former Navy SEALs get killed over an approximate 8 hour gun fight on 9/11 with no attempted rescue than a Select Committee is warranted.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3343169/posts?page=49#49
I heard McCarthy on Hannity and from his own mouth he said that the Benghazi hearings were to bring Hillary down in the polls. I don't believe that that is true but that is what the asshat said. I didn't need anyone to tell me what I heard.
Your Alinsky ass BS is pathetic.
You hear what you want to hear.
Go ahead, tell us that that isn't referring to poll numbers. Show your azz.
Fuck you asshole! You are not the only one who knows what the fuck is going on. See my tag line. The Select Committee is warranted.
Stick it where the sun don't shine, azzhole.
But that's not what McCarthy said is it? lol
And let me give you one example. Everybody thought that Hillary was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi Special Committee, a Select Committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping.
Read my tagline you jerk. I was following the lack of a stand down order, etc you condescending POS.
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