Last week, Speaker of the House John Boehner announced his party's intention to reopen a congressional probe of the attack on the American embassy outpost at Benghazi. He has designated for this purpose a Select Committee on Benghazi. A GOP congressman from South Carolina named Trey Gowdy has been appointed chairman.
Congressional Republicans had mandated significant cuts in the State Department's embassy security budgets in both 2011 and 2012. Despite these misdirected attempts at fiscal prudence, they refuse to link these funding cuts with the lax state of security at the US embassy in Benghazi on September 11th, 2012, the date of an attack that killed four Americans.
Instead, the GOP insists on yelling, "Cover up! Cover up!" Unless I'm mistaken, the present endeavor represents the eighth attempt to "investigate" this tragedy. They're willing to make political hay out of any situation, loss of life notwithstanding. It's ghoulish! Then again, this is the same group of stone-hearted folks who are perfectly willing to deny millions of people --- including their own constituents --- access to even the most basic health care by denying them Medicaid.
They've also repeatedly shot down any and all attempts to restore unemployment benefits and maintain the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program at a level that make life bearable for the folks who really need them.
But nothing gets the ol' adrenalin pumpin' like a good old-fashioned investigation, no matter how repetitious or tiresome it gets. Sorry to break it to you guys, but that dead horse you keep thrashing ain't never gonna neigh or whinny again!
But hey, keep tryin'! It's a great investment of time and money for folks who enjoy watching sadistic clowns do their thing.
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The Republican Party is obsessed with Benghazi, pathetic, I agree. Our ambassador should have evacuated our embassy there DAYS earlier--leaving with his staff. Susan Rice did bungle the explanation, and critics were right to call her on it, but the repubs have repeated and beaten this issue too much. Elected officials, get back to work, @#$%^! the crummy politics!
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