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And keep on revisiting Benghazi. Apparently, Ambassador J. Christopher Stephens was involved in A) recovery of arms used by the al-Qaeda affiliate against the Kaddafi regime; and B) transferring these arms to Syria to help out the al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, using the Turkish embassy as the transfer agent.

But Obama’s dance on Osama bin Ladin’s demise grated sharply with al-Qaeda, and in true Middle East fashion, they applied the scorpion’s sting to their supposed benefactor.

Does nobody recall the outcry from the left in the Iran-Contra bootlegging of arms back in the days of Oliver North and Ronald Reagan? Seems like the leftists of the time did not like THAT transaction very much. And yet, there was no tragic exchange of fire and needless deaths in all of that, while this has gone as badly for the Current Regime in the White Hut, as the aborted rescue by Carter, Operation Eagle Claw, went south in April 1980, in which eight US servicemen died and much of the rescue equipment was destroyed on the ground as a result of an accident.

While Iran-Contra did not result in the ending of effective control of the White House by a sitting President, Operation Eagle Claw probably set the stage for the defeat of Carter. Difference was, the loss of life involved.

Valerie Jarrett, answer your phone. It has been ringing repeatedly since September 12, 2012.

So who has discretion in appointment of a Special Counsel?

This should not be the perogative of only the administrative branch of the government, especially when they are the perpetrators of the wrong-doing. And the judiciary does not have the authority to initiate inquiries into malfeasance on their own, they may only respond to petitions by others.

If you respect neither your philosophers nor your plumbers, your theories and your pipes shall both be unable to hold water.

Really great people for the job, just do not ever get considered. Tightly crafted character assassination, as happened to Robert Bork when he was nominated for a seat on the Supreme Court, or John Tower for Secretary of Defense, have become the standard by which Republican nominees are held to by Democrat critics. ANY hint of personal difficulties, or of any moment of lapse of judgment, are brought up and magnified beyond all decency or propriety.

And for sure, no Democrat regime would even THINK of Jeanine Pirro as a potential candidate for any position of authority. If they could, she would be banned from even making any public statements.

Democrats are just about total strangers to most every aspect of “Honesty”.

But for how long? The Federal government is stressing the supply of ammunition, by buying up ENORMOUS amounts of .40 calibre cartridges, which necessarily impacts the capacity to manufacture other forms of ammunition.

The question is, not only does this vastly reduce the availability of other ammunition, but just how much "target practice" do the various agencies of the Federal government need, and what are going to be the "targets"?

It may be a practical consideration to reconnoiter all the various depots in which these supplies of ammunition are being held, and make a determination about what contingencies to follow.

Not so much that the information was intrusive, as the degree of intrusion was selectively DIFFERENT for various groups. It the intrusion seemed too great, a complaint should have been sufficient to cause the inquiry to be curtailed or even dropped.

And if any of the more “progressive” applicants complained (assuming any even remotely similar request was made of them), the inquiry was either withdrawn, or at least made much less onerous.

But the really excessive TIME delays, where when even if the information was provided, the application was simply not acted upon, and perhaps worse, the information contained was forwarded to some agency whose purpose was to conduct opposition research.

The Staatssicherheit (Stasi) of East Germany used similar tactics.

Curiouser and curiouser - The attackerz at Benghazi were supposed to be an affiliate of al-Qaeda, yet the transfer of the arms once in Libya were to be transported to Syria under cover of the Turkish government, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in particular, to OTHER affiliates of the al-Qaeda already in Syria.

But of course, the Current Occupant of the White Hut is so very close to the Turkish PM, that US Marines are ordered to stand holding umbrellas while having a press conference outside during inclement weather. There are no inside venues for this sort of thing?

You are right, to inquire where Valerie Jarrett was in all this. She is a most adept and adroit puppetmaster, and probably the one advisor that The Won listens to and acts for in just about every circumstance, now that David Axelrod has departed from the White Hut staff.

Sadly, this is not the first era of “Know-Nothings” in American history.

The original “Know-Nothings” were largely anti-Catholic and anti-immigrant, and were active between the years 1845 to about the outbreak of the Civil War. When asked about the activities of the party, members were supposed to say, “I know nothing”, and it was also their password to enter the semi-secret meetings.

The current crop of “Know-Nothings” also use some variant of that phrase, and form a semi-secret club within the “liberal-progressive” school of political activity in this country. They are not only anti-Catholic, but anti-Christian as a whole, and while they will not overtly say so, also anti-Jewish as well. But immigrants, they like, particularly Islamic immigrants, it would seem.

“Love you in the sunshine, hate you in the rain.
But when trouble comes around, it always seems to rain.”

Not my job, man. Way above my pay grade.

OK, so whose job IS it? And what pay grade would induce you to take over the duties?

Tennessee Ernie Ford, “Sixteen Tons” told the story, and “Big John” supplied another chapter.

Apparently these people could not walk far enough to escape the daily reality that surrounded them from birth. But if you never knew anything else, even owing your soul to the company store doesn’t sound like too bad a bargain.

Death is just about as much malice as you can visit upon an individual, and it came wrongfully not once, but four times, in just this one incident.

But, “it’s nobody’s fault”.

Unless, of course, the blame can somehow be shifted to either George W. Bush, or the Republican majority in the House of Representatives.

It’s a stretch, but they are working on it.

Until they are struck with sufficient amount of “shock and awe”, the Islamic Jihadists will not relent.

I say, put a couple of missiles into the Dome on the Rock in Jerusalem, and make a radioactive crater out of the site of the Kaaba in Mecca, just for starters. Then a demand that everyone who professes the Muslim faith leave Europe, including all the converts, to be relocated in either North Africa or elsewhere in countries that are already predominately Muslim. There is ground where a Muslim may only visit, but cannot be allowed to become a permanent resident, much less apply for citizenship.

Muslims do not become patriots of countries that are not predominately already Islamic, and as such, they cannot honestly become a citizen of most of the nations of Europe.

And certainly not North or South America. Nor is there much chance that much of East Asia is likely to become Muslim. India and the Russian Federation should be object lessons on how difficult it is to develop patriotism in the hearts of Muslims when they are a minority within a country.

(Pssst! Here’s the secret, folks. These audits were initiated under Bush I & Bush II, and only ended after they left office.)

Or is that is what PETA would have people believe, that the mean rascally old Republicans were intent on suppressing THEIR perspective on what “ethical” means.

PETA, in fact, is about anything BUT the ethical treatment of creatures once the poor unfortunates get into their facilities. Since they are the ones that CALL themselves “ethical”, how could you believe such a thing?

IT IS OF THE SAME CLOTH AS THE SOFT RACISM OF “LOW EXPECTATIONS”! Just as the “progressives” are given a pass for encouraging incompetence, the “humane” PETA is given a pass for its cruelty to those creatures they have seized from “unethical” animal owners.

There are other, much more ethical organizations, that concern themselves with the welfare of domestic animals, and the care and treatment of beasts.

I don’t much like the people who make up the membership of PETA, as they are wont to spread a lot of negative propaganda and act in ways that violate existing law, almost to the point of terrorism.

Rumpelstiltskin can do what he wants, after all, doesn’t he hold ultimate power?

Arrogance apparently has no upper limit. While the evil dwarf has some respect for the potential of his own destruction, the Current Occupant of the White Hut has some truly magical belief in his personal invulnerability.

The Won has not even a rudimentary sense of respect for the traditions and history of most of what makes up the concept of the entity commonly known as “the United States of America”.

Terrorists, and illegal residents of this country in general, are some sort of protected class under the guidelines of the “Just-us” Department. Kindred souls and all that, you know.

Guaranteed free pass so long as the advocacy does not include anything about limited government, support of Israel, patriotism of the variety that supports the US Constitution, or T.E.A. party activities.

But open borders, gun control, new and unusual forms of taxation, and suppression of non-Islamic religions are held to be desirable and worthy objectives.

Well, here’s the thing - the groupthink of the “liberal” and “progressive” mindset is rather like that of the anthill, or possibly, the Borg. As they all think within the same narrow pre-set limits, including the choice of facts, the same conclusion is arrived at each time. The decision of the IRS agency head to target T.E.A. party and limited government advocacy groups is exactly the same decision the Current Regime would have made, if the matter had been referred to them directly. But there is no piece of paper, or smoking gun, that can be laid before any investigator (an objective one, it should be hoped, something unlikely to be called in for this situation), and a reasonable logical conclusion may be drawn.

So, no detectable order may be found. But in the telepathy that seems to leap from the mind of Valerie Jarrett or George Soros to every advocate of the Current Regime, the objective, and even the process, is perfectly clear - go in smash-mouth, take no prisoners, offer no conditions and show no mercy.

Saul Alinsky would be so proud.

Does nobody recall the confidence that Richard Nixon had in HIS Attorney General, John N. Mitchell?

Does anyone think that sort of confidence may have been, well, a little misplaced?

The cracks in Nixon’s defense developed as his support group in the Oval Office was taken out, one by one, by various strategies employed by the cabal that was out to “get Nixon”.

And one of the foot soldiers in that cabal was - Herself, the Cold and Joyless (known also by the pseudonym “Hillary Rodham Clinton”).

Schadenfreude is such a beastly emotion, and hubris is such an uncertain ally.

So how are any of the bullet points not mythical in nature?

Target-rich environment.

But then, we are not dealing with rational, logical people here. The scramble inherent in any CYA action must necessarily be chaotic and lacking in any kind of accuracy, rather like a sawed-off shotgun with no kind of choke on the muzzle.

Shooting themselves in the foot, not once, but repeatedly and with seemingly maniacal ferocity, is a frightening thing to watch.

So the strategy should be to first eliminate Joe Biden from his present post as Vice President, either by declaration of unfitness for the office (the guy is clearly senile), or by “encouraging” him to resign from the position “for reasons of health”.

Then the next step is to find some Democrat that is not a complete America-phobe, and have the House of Representatives elevate that person to the Vice Presidency. Then we may go after the Current Occupant with a little less reluctance, forcing his exit from office by resignation (impeachment is possible, but the Senate will never convict).

But for that, we need some tame Democrats to even agree to this course of action. That may be harder than it looks.

George Soros has a HUGE stake in whomever occupies the White Hut. That is one very difficult problem to be solved in this chess game before its resolution and checkmate is even possible.

The law firm on retainer with the White Hut, Waffle, Straddle & Backfill, is working overtime to deliver talking points and clever repartee to uncomfortable questions from a press corps growing wary and more hostile by the day.

But even this sleight of hand and witty responses may not be able to hold off the restlessness of the masses much longer. While only a minority of Americans have as yet begun to pay attention, some of them are getting highly incensed, and there is definitely the smell of blood in the water.

Nixon and 1973, deja vu.

In the daily comics page, there is a strip (actually a one-panel drawing) called “The Family Circus”. One of the recurring characters (if it may be called that) is an entity that goes by the designation of “Not-me”. When the mom asks the kids who caused the latest fracas, they all chime in, naming “Not-me” as the guilty party.

“Not-me” holds just about every low- or mid-level job in the Current Regime, and is always referred to as “Unnamed”.

The IRS - Internal Revenge Service.

Nixon has become the ghost in the machine, with the Current Regime maintaining its own “enemies list”.

Perhaps The Won did not finish reading how the saga of Nixon played out. It would be instructive, except that the Current Occupant of the White Hut is replaceable, and would be at a moment’s notice if he falters even the least.

And he looks almost like he is about to blink. Keeping Benghazi below the radar is a harder job than it looked like at first, can we get people talking about ANYTHING else?

Well, almost everybody has forgotten about Fast & Furious by now. It COULD happen again.

In any other venue, this would be considered corruption.

But since George Soros is a “good” NATURALIZED citizen (at least in that failed nation-state that was formerly known as “the United States of America), he gets a pass, because in that realm, this is “just business”.

George Soros has soiled every nest in which he has settled across the world, and some still have outstanding warrants for his detention and indictment for securities and banking crimes against a sovereign nation.

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain....

Hide the greater treasonous malfeasance behind some lesser (but more tractable) scandals, get them all out on the front page, and the low-information voter shall soon be “pacified” into believing that the situation is being resolved.

Some 95% of the woes that Herself, the Cold and Joyless, has to endure are self-induced, and nobody, NOBODY, could inflict greater damage upon Herself than that which Herself has already done.

“What difference does it make?” - very interesting question, and because Herself asked it first, the implication is that Herself has considered the consequences, hoping that none fall upon Herself.

But if it were to be thrown back at Herself, the response might be most surprising.

Funny, how this strategy takes on many of the same characteristics as the run-up to the impeachment of “The Former Occupant of the Oval Office, 1993-2001”. One by one, the truly egregious charges were dropped off, such as tampering with official records (remember Sandy Berger and the stolen documents?), leaking a VAST number of official secrets to the Chinese Communists, concerning weapons systems and space launch data, and considerable amount of “cronyism” that led to persons who could not have EVER gained a security clearance in positions of high authority during that administration.

Finally, all that were allowed to get on the table were some rather glaring and lurid examples of sexual misbehavior, which may have seemed important to part of the American public, but a very large part also delighted in “their” president being such a clever and unrepentant rogue.

In the end, there was “not enough” to convict and remove that president from office. Perhaps a good thing, too, as then Al Gore would have been president, two years before he was “elected” to the job (with the help of a little “getting even” at the ballot boxes, which was soon thrown out by the US Supreme Court).

“....as a pig in Sunday school....”

The pig at least has the POTENTIAL to learn something of a higher morality. The Current Regime is incapable of processing any concept that exists outside their own universe.

And that includes common decency and the capacity to feel shame at their transgressions. They consider that as only “getting even”.

In life, “getting even” is an impossible task. Those who subscribe to the notion are either hopelessly enslaved, or they become tyrants in their own right. There is no “even”, there is only some degree of parity, which varies depending on the ongoing process of the negotiations.

Those who want to “get even” do not wish to negotiate.

It is a depression and nobody will call the phenomenon what it really is. Perhaps it is just trying to avoid “bad form”, but telling oneself fibs about what is really going on, has probably delayed the natural progression to the resolution for several years now.

Instead, the various central banks have been pumping up money supplies (remarkably easy to do with the existing concept of “money” as an electronic entry, no physical presence necessary), and in the absence of that other component of “money has value”, the VELOCITY with which the medium of exchange changes hands, the impact has been only sluggish. The effect is to artificially pump up the value of securities and commodities exchanged, because the SUPPLY of money is so great, but there is no productivity commensurate to the prices placed on securities.

Check the price/earnings ratio of the stocks being most actively traded. Almost all the offerings on the stock market is moderately to vastly overvalued. The only thing sustaining this “growth” is the “bigger fool” that is willing to jump in when stocks are rising, sometimes sharply, and irrational exuberance sets in.

The one remaining way to rein in the vast money supply is to allow interest rates to rise to levels that moderate this artificial plateau of trading prices. Does nobody recall the late 1970’s and early 1980’s?

Perhaps a little less OVERTLY gay. But LGBT shall continue to be painted in a positive and upbeat manner, as just one of those “minor” variations of character that makes the story “interesting”.

And no network that carries “entertainment” and a good many that carry “historical” documentaries, will disavow the agenda that has been heaped upon our heads like burning coals.

Eric Holder is as hard to dislodge as a leech or a woodtick, and much more of a blood-sucker than either of those other two lower forms of life.

Intimidation is just part of Holder’s character, or rather, lack of such. Doubling-down is just a reflex action. Nothing short of physical restraint and incarceration is likely to deter his behavior in the least.

Shame and decency are meaningless concepts, so far as either concerns Eric Holder.

Laborious and time-consuming, but necessary. That is what “checks and balances” are all about.

Expecting the Current Regime to ‘fess up and admit culpability is a fantasy and perhaps an impossibility, considering their predilection to LIE about anything and everything, for whatever short-term advantage they believe they gain.

Even when the lies are revealed as the fabrications they are, the denizens of the White Hut still continue to assert the same talking points, apparently relying on the short attention span of the large fraction of voters who base their prejudices on very shallow criteria.

Back in the early days of automobiles, Henry Ford (you know, of Ford Motor Company) was a great proponent of the use of ethanol as a motor fuel, not as a blend, but as a direct source of energy. During the combustion process, at least part is the conversion of the combustion product as water into superheated steam, which drives the piston down in the cylinder with far greater force that the mere expansion of superheated nitrogen and carbon dioxide. The superheated steam exhausting from the cylinder also scours and cleans away any carbon build-up in the area around the exhaust port, cleaning up the engine parts as the mechanism is in motion.

In the days of Henry’s advocacy of ethanol, the seals were made of cork material and the carburetor needles were made of brass, neither of which are adversely affected by ethanol.

And with the cost of natural gas falling to what are comparatively very low prices as compared to petroleum, the potential for reformulating natural gas into custom (and cleaner-burning, SULFUR-FREE product), the potential for cleaning up air even more than the EPA’s own mandates grows daily.

And despite the repeated assertions of some scientifically illiterate department heads at EPA, carbon dioxide is NOT a pollutant. It is a very important part of the life cycle of ALL carbon-based life forms.

Ethanol from a component of natural gas (ethene) may well prove to have far less impact on the environment (and the economy) than foodstock converted into ethanol. But there are no subsidies for that process.

“Hope & Change” has been a head fake and a fraud all this time?

Who knew?

Interesting, that Obama has been compared first with Nixon, then with Adolf Hitler.

Nixon at least had the grace to resign when his unpopularity began to rise beyond any prospect of recovery.

Adolf Hitler was made of sterner stuff. In his megolomania, Hitler believed himself to BE the soul of Germany, and if Germany should fall, he would expire with it.

The Current Regime has no such patriotic feelings for the entity once known as “the United States of America”. That tormented land is just to be another province in the New World Order.

Though there is some question as to whom shall be the administrators of this new global federation. The Islamic world seems to think they should establish the World-wide Caliphate to maintain organizational control of this monolithic ant hill, while resurgent International Socialists appear to be preparing to the new Comintern.

Either way, the concepts of private capitalistic ventures and individual rights of freedom are screwed.

There shall never be enough malfeasance and scandal piled upon the Current Regime squatting in the White Hut to force their evacuation. They have become as tenacious as cockroaches, and with greater potential for ultimate harm than termites.

Only when his own party turned out against Nixon, did he agree to surrender and announce his resignation. But in a clever move, the resignation of Spiro Agnew was accomplished first, so in the end, a substitute President and Vice President (who was Nelson Rockefeller, for those of you who may be lacking in historical perspective) filled out the remaining term. Unelected and largely unaccountable until time came to fill the next ballot boxes.

Though by any objective evaluation, Gerald Ford was a reasonably good caretaker of the institution of the Presidency, shambles though it may have been in 1974.

The only organization with the power to drive The Won from office would be the national Democrat party, and with the intransigence of its Congressional leaders (Reid and Pelosi), NEVA HAPPEN, GI. Democrats remain as ever, woefully uninformed, and the national media only reinforces their prejudices against reason and logic. Critical thinking is a lost art for the majority of voters.

General Petraeus got rolled.

He was set up as fall guy in case things went south, and there was no way it WASN’T about to fold up like a cheap camping tent.

Whatever personal transgressions General Petraeus may have engaged in, were held over his head, waiting for the moment these items of personal embarrassment could be used against him.

Citizen David Petraeus would have been far better served to have just retired to a country estate somewhere in the Blue Ridge mountains.

This Current Regime now occupying the White Hut is about as subtle as a (white) elm club right between the eyes. (In the vernacular, this is sometimes referred to as a “p*ss-ellum club”, my father’s words.)

For those of you unfamiliar with this term, a club made of freshly cut white, or slippery, elm, is a heavy, sturdy instrument for delivering the full force of a roundhouse swing at the target, usually a recalcitrant mule’s poll.

Mules are known for going into a sulk and refusing to move. A good solid fetch right across the forehead with said elm club generally delivers the message to get over the sulkiness.

The Current Regime seems determined to get people to conform to their vision of a “fundamentaly transformed America”.

But if you ever get into a confrontation with a mule, better make your first blow count.

People watch TV. They do not pay much attention to GOP congressmen.

Chalk that up to low-information voter syndrome. I sincerely believe this is a treatable medical condition, but it would NEVER be covered under the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2011”, probably the most misnamed piece of legislation ever crafted in Washington, DC, and without doubt, the most disrespectful of the intelligence of anyone with a minimum of critical thinking skills.

You have to go back to the “National Recovery Act” of the New Deal to find anything of even comparable chutzpah.

That, the Supreme Court of the time, had the good sense to declare unConstitutional.

Is New Orleans a gun-free zone?

Don’t take your guns to town, boy.

Unless you want to bust up a shooting spree.

Nanacy Pelosi may have a feeble mind, but she holds to a very high standard of consistency.

We are interested in Benghazi for one very important reason, to actually do something to AVERT any future “Benghazi” incidents.

Because with the Current Regime in the White Hut, this or a similar situation shall continue to happen again and again.

The Won has either A) blundered repeatedly in his conduct in office, or B) acted with malicious aforethought to bring great shame and grief upon the full faith and trust of the United States of America as a nation. After only days earlier pronouncing the al-Qaeda organization as “organizationally defunct”, the hit on the State Department post in Benghazi was made - by the supposedly defeated al-Qaeda organization. The Current Occupant boasted, spiked the ball, and danced on the demise of Osama bin Laden, which probably had no little bit to do with the revenge strike on the facility, and the subsequent deaths of four Americans, plus untold damage to US prestige in the world.

Mission accomplished.

In a surprisingly prescient slip of the tongue, the late Ted Kennedy drunkenly made the juxaposition between “Osama Obama”. How fitting.

‘Tis a pity that General Petraeus was burned as a sacrifice to the altar of “Get Herself, the Cold and Joyless, elected to the Presidency in 2016”.

General Petraeus was a much better person than that. But in the tight-lipped stoicism that men of honor consider to be one of the significant markers of their trade, he has said little, accepting the “punishment” meted out to him as his wages for dealing with the Current Regime now squatting in the White Hut.

But the little he does say, speaks volumes in regards to the duplicity and chicanery to which the Current Occupant has stooped to in the few years that have gone into the active deconstruction of the guiding principles that once held reign in the territory formerly known as “The United States of America”.

That tormented land, no longer certain of its mission or its future, has fallen onto hard times, its image as “the shining city on the hill”, tarnished and darkened to as to make it indistinguishable from the rocks and dirt from which it has once stood so proudly as a beacon to the world.

Islam and Wicca, however, may be prominently promoted.

The Current Regime in the White Hut is not adamantly opposed to ALL forms of religions expression.

But no Christians, Jews, Mormons or Buddhists need apply.

The tar brush never gets put away.

Pretty soon, either the tar will dry to the point it cannot be used to smear any more, or the amount of remaining tar on the brush gets down to the point it cannot make much of a mark anyway.

The greater point to be made is that the Current Occupant of the White Hut does not, and never has, taken responsibility for malfeasance of any kind.

Even when nobody else could have been in position to authorize or deny a particular action. The IRS is one of the most ruthless and persistent pursuers of those of whom it sets its targets upon, even when it is their error. When sicced on by the sitting regime, they are even more relentless, going after widows of deceased professional people, and imputing income when there was no actual receipt of revenue, for “services performed”.

And now this, using an “enemies list” to target potential opponents and challenging their legitimate deductions for specious reasons, forcing the persons and institutions to defend against seizure, at great expense to themselves. The IRS has no such restraints on how much they may put into pursuit of a particular court case, and many times, they will spend far more than any potential collection, just to prove a point and establish a precedent for future challenges to collections.

Intimidation by government action against its citizens is tyranny. Check the dictionary.

If not already fully converted to Islam, both the Current Occupant of the White Hut and and the satrap who once served in the US Department of State are very good examples of “dhimmi”, the willing lackeys who have bowed in subservience to the shadow dominance of the Worldwide Caliphate.

The Muslim Brotherhood already has a controlling position in the top levels of the Current Regime, and probably also within the majority leadership of the Senate.

There is a conundrum for the media in all this. Did Herself, the Cold and Joyless, do this all at the behest of the Current Occupant of the White Hut, and therefore was “only following orders” (and what a great defense THAT is, does nobody remember Nuremberg?), or is all this just incompetence on the head of Herself alone?

When does incompetence morph into outright criminal action?

The name of the law firm that Herself, the Cold and Joyless, once worked with, should have been changed to Waffle, Straddle & Backfill. Herself learned her fine points of legal argument (deny, obfuscate, use emotion in place of logic, and ignore any direct challenges) while serving there, yet was never known to provide any legal opinion worthy of the definition.

The only reason some people study law is to find the loopholes.

“....they would hurt State...”

“State”, i.e., Herself the Cold and Joyless. This is the interest that has to be protected at all costs. As presumptive heir apparent to the 2016 Democrat Presidential nomination (and therefore, by implication, the next occupant of what has become the White Hut), the media HAS to close ranks and put a “cone of silence” around everything coming out of the committee hearings.

Obviously, the genie is struggling very hard to get out of that bottle, so in addition to a conspiracy to NOT report any of the findings, a barrage of ad hominem attacks on the Republicans serving on the committee is flying in every direction.

To quote from another Congressional hearing from years ago, “Have you no sense of decency sir, at long last?”

And in another scene taken from the Watergate hearings, Senator Sam Ervin quoted Mark Twain’s injunction, “The truth is very precious; use it sparingly,”

Ervin said of Nixon, “He used it sparingly.”

Truth is getting very sparing use in the current responses of the Current Regime to the Benghazi incident.

Keynesian economics, at its finest.

The theory was, solution to a poor economic state was to “prime the pump.” Keynes argued that the government should step in to increase spending, either by increasing the money supply or by actually buying things itself. During the Great Depression, however, this was not a popular solution.

And it is a particularly unpopular solution today, even in the face of the insistence of the Current Occupant of the White Hut and his clever wizard, Ben Bernanke, that a perpetual pumping up of the money supply goes on and on.

Spending our way to prosperity.

Though I doubt if the majority of economists today even understand the concept of “prosperity”. The velocity of money (one of the vital components of its value) has slowed to a pace that is, at its person-to-person rate, to almost the levels of the Great Depression, even though vastly greater numbers of currency units are now in circulation.