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But itâs not political, oh, no.
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That picture makes it look like he just wants this to be OVER. 
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Gowdy answered with a burnâŚ
Good grief.
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Done dirt cheap.
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âI will be happy to get a copy of my opening statement for the gentleman from Washington so he can refresh his recollection on all the things our committee found that your previous committee missed,â the chairman sniped.
Iâd have welcomed that offerâŚjust so that Gowdy could extend the âgoalpostsâ defence a bit further, than the last time.
Swear to dawg, thought I was gonna read a rant about âmineâs bigger than yours.â One upmanship is the theme Howdy is going for.
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It could have been interpreted as such. If I was Smith, Iâd still would have asked him to âdrawâ.
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'âI will be happy to get a copy of my opening statement for the gentleman from Washington so he can refresh his recollection on all the things our committee found that your previous committee missed,â
SureâŚyour list of everything you did that shows you were on a fishing expedition is actually pretty convenient. Too bad none of it came up with anything substantively any different than what the prior 7 committees and 31 hearings discovered.
Edit: And thatâs really the point here I canât stress enough. Gowdy spends a lot of hot air trying to push the idea that theyâve been more âthoroughââŚbut the proof (or lack thereof) is in the pudding. Heâs pushing the false logic that having done something other committees didnât do proves the other committeesâ conclusions to lack credibility, but he and the other Teatrolls have yet to cite a single thing they turned up by doing those additional things that SUBSTANTIVELY changes the conclusion that should be drawn.
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Uh huhâŚof course, this committee didnât find itâŚthe NYTimes didâŚbut hey.
And even in the chairmanâs opening remarks⌠Not any new information, not hereâs what we, in those 17 months and $4.7 million, have figured out that is through and different. Nothing.
âI will be happy to get a copy of my opening statement for the gentleman from Washington so he can refresh his recollection on all the things our committee found that your previous committee missed,â the chairman sniped.
So, Rep. Smith said that Gowdyâs opening remarks contained no new information and Gowdy âburnedâ him by basically saying âDid to.â For that to be a âburnâ wouldnât it have to be true that the opening statement contained new information?
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OK, so other information was missed.
Did the âmissingâ information lead to an indictment? Has anything remotely wrong been found by the revelation of the âmissingâ information? Are we still spending our limited tax dollars because the âmissingâ information has led to something worthwhile?
Yeah, didnât think so.
Howâs about everyone just go home, alreadyâŚ
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It appears that Congress, at least when the GOP has the gavel, has settled on the idea of Congressional investigations concerning Bbbeeennnggghhhaaazzziiii being among our enduring national pastimes and traditions - like baseball, candy eggs from fluffy dyed Jeebus bunnies, beating the shit out random LGBTs, and commemorative arsons, parades & bombings on MLK Day.
But now, after no less than 8 officially constituted administrative and congressional hearing, this distressingly lame exhibition by Trey-Trey & his merry band of Specials strongly suggests it could use some new ideas for this festive passion play. Some ideas:
- No more Dixie drunks!
That guy from Alahambry or Georgie East looks like even Draculaâs legion of bats and rats would reject it as too spoiled from left out too long in a varmint-ridden swamp.
We know Westmoreland from when he proved on Colbertâs previous show he couldnât remember even one concept from more than 3 of the 10 commandments. Even on just those 3, he still got the gist wrong on at least one. That was a decade ago: now itâs got so we can smell the sickly sweet rot over the C-Span feed! Lynnâs so much worse now, he probably couldnât get more than one commandment right before slipping in a spew of his own waste.
- No more stoopid XY graphs!
Besides that the stoopid GOPers most likely to resort to them are the most speaking impaired among them, and quite apart from how those GOPers abuse the crap out of them while on camera, with the most batshit-crazy-uncle awkward segues imaginable, on appearances Iâm convinced there must be hordes of underage abused orcs on the production lines that crank out these stoopid gaffe-laden visiuals. theyâre so painfully puerile & so artlessly torture anything remotely resembling a fact.
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One time a few years ago I Co-Chared state funded study committee that offered recommendations for legislation to the state legislature. The final report was drafted by the actuarial firm the committee had employed to analyze the data we had collected. After the committee reviewed and edited the report and itâs recommendations it was approved by a majority of the Committee.
Later the minority issued a statement claiming that the report was riddled with errors. They claimed that there were over 20 of them. When pressed they identified 17 grammar and punctuation errors and 4 spelling mistakes in the nearly 200 page report.
This is the kind of meaningless factual discoveries this committee has discovered.
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Benghazi Chair Cuts Self
Hillary 2nd most prolific emailer was Cookâs CountryâŚ
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Was this before Smith started dealing out some blows?
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âThis committee is simply not doing its job and I donât really think it should have been
formed in the first place.â [17 months and $4.7 million wasted so far. If they want the White House. let them spend their rich friendsâ money to get it. Not ours.] -
âAgain, I think weâve seen that this committee is focused on you. Iâm the ranking member of the Armed Services Committee. I donât see the Department of Defense here, I donât see the CIA here. There were many, many other agencies involved in this and yet yours has been the one that they have obsessively focused on.â
Then Smith went for the throat
- âA Democratic Congress at the time did a fair and quick investigation of what was an unspeakable tragedy. [the 1983 bombing of the military barracks of the U.S. and France that killed 300 American Marines] Two separate suicide bombings four months apart, and there was clearly inadequate security. But the focus there was not on partisanship, not on embarrassing the Reagan administration, but on actually figuring out what happened and on how we can better protect Americans.â
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I kind of liked his little tirade over Blumenthal. He prefaces by saying Blumenthal knows nothing about Benghazi.
SoâŚwhy is your laser focused committee on re finding the same answers on what happened then talking to him? So you could grandstand that he knows Hillary and how dare she know anybody?
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WellâŚsince the dems havenât been in charge since 2011âŚyour taunt is a LIE!
Well unless I missed something in Gowdyâs opening statement, nothing of merit or relevance to the actual events in Benghazi has so far been turned up by this $4.7 million dollar re-hash and political witch-hunt that was not already known. So Iâm not sure where the âburnâ is that this article claims was there.
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