Discussion: Senate Dems Urge Boehner To Shut Down Benghazi Panel After McCarthy's Remarks

luke_cage · October 1, 2015, 4:03pm

The Hungrians do make great sammiches.

dwolf · October 1, 2015, 4:03pm

Which is the same thing done to Bill Clinton – “White Water” turned into Monica Lewnisky. they’re going to keep it open until they find something that sticks, even if it only sticks to their constituency.

chelsea530 · October 1, 2015, 4:04pm

I just watched it. OMG. McCarthy is unbelievably stupid. Dim bulb? His lights aren’t even on! I share her great concern that he could become president if, and thankfully that’s a big if, anything should happen to Obama and Biden.

maxaroo · October 1, 2015, 4:06pm

After Benghazi, Ambassador Stevens’s father begged Congress not to turn his son’s death into a political football. This is all you need to know about the level of disrespect and cynicism within the GOP.

ralph_vonholst · October 1, 2015, 4:08pm

Eric Boehlert at “Media Matters” put this in a broader and somewhat troubling perspective:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/10/01/benghazi-emails-planned-parenthood-how-dc-press/205906

As Media Matters can attest, virtually none of the often-hysterical allegations attached to those distractions were ever proven to be true. Instead, the pursuits imploded under their own weight. Yet too often, these supposed scandals broke out of the Fox News bubble and became mainstream “news.”

So when’s the press going to get the message and stop enabling these charades?

jinx_tpm · October 1, 2015, 4:09pm

What struck me is that he was reading from prepared remarks and still couldn’t make sense.

chelsea530 · October 1, 2015, 4:19pm

I know. I kept wondering if someone really wrote that or he just mangled it.

Good grief. He’s going to be the Rodney Dangerfield of House Speakers (and we thought Boehner was bad).

How embarrassing for this country.

ralph_vonholst · October 1, 2015, 4:20pm

I can’t believe I’m defending McCarthy, but assuming that he’s dim or stupid is kinda facile and may be unfair. Based on my experience with some relatives, I suggested in another thread that he has a reading disability like dyslexia, and was rebuked by another commenter for making the suggestion. I’m just saying that it’s a possibility.

chelsea530 · October 1, 2015, 4:20pm

But Hungria? Really?

ralph_vonholst · October 1, 2015, 4:23pm

I know. I’m just a little sensitive. Both my brother-in-law and my oldest daughter have dyslexia and have both been very successful in their careers in spite of it.

taters · October 1, 2015, 4:24pm

I keep seeing emails unrelated to “Benghazi” and from the other non-story of the email server, leaked to the press.
Oppo research is going through every one of her personal emails. They are desperate for a Whitewater II. Why can’t Dems fight this nonsense? This is not a fishing expedition, this is bottom trawling. They don’t even have to find a thing! The NY Times runs a story practically EVERY DAY about the email server tho i think at this point three different judges have said what she did was legal. Just “catapult the propaganda” every daily news cycle for the next 18 months. Dems keep whining “but it’s not true”- THEY DON"T CARE if it’s true or not! That’s the game they are playing.

taters · October 1, 2015, 4:26pm

Dems have not caught on to this propaganda ground-game yet it seems. This is not happenstance. It is all orchestrated.
And no, no one will ever call them out in any meaningful way, so let’s stop dreaming.

jinx_tpm · October 1, 2015, 4:31pm

I’ve not yet made any aspersions on his intelligence, so I get where you’re coming from.

If someone has a learning (or other type of) disability and strives hard to achieve success, then god bless.

But there are a lot of indications that this guy got lucky (won the lottery to start a deli), once elected schmoozed his way to being ‘indispensible’ to certain members, has accomplished nothing legislatively, and has failed right up to the top. There is no sign of hard work or striving in this dude.

hoppy · October 1, 2015, 4:32pm

The reason Democrats have to do this is that if they don’t this real scandal will get zero press attention, leaving the HUGE Email “scandal” alone on the front page for months to come. We need to shift the story line over to the admitted crime of spending tax money for Republican political ads, which is all that the committee is doing.

ralph_vonholst · October 1, 2015, 4:50pm

Yes, I’ll grant you that.

foundryman · October 1, 2015, 4:55pm

Why not both?

chelsea530 · October 1, 2015, 5:01pm

Whether or not he has dyslexia is beside the point. He’s a lousy human being.

jsfox · October 1, 2015, 5:20pm

Because it is the primarily the responsibility of her campaign. And frankly to my eye, and jaundiced it may be, her Campaign is running about as well as it did last time.

dddinah · October 1, 2015, 5:36pm

SCREW THE ;URGE’ , DEMAND they close it down NOW. If there’s anyone that should apologize it’s the Republicans, for politicizing their tragedy. The victims families deserve better than the Republicans using their deceased as a steeping stone for political gain.SHAME ON JOHN. John said he’d leave a clean docket. As reported this hearing has gone on longer than the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, 0/1 hearings…