House Republican members are defying Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and five committee chairmen by endorsing a measure that would set up a special panel to investigate the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
A growing number of members on the committees with jurisdiction over the Benghazi matter — Intelligence, Judiciary, Oversight and Government Reform, Armed Services and Foreign Affairs — have signed onto Rep. Frank Wolf’s (R-Va.) resolution.
Boehner and the chairmen of those committees do not support the legislation. Instead, they have worked together to investigate the Obama administration’s handling of the Sept. 11, 2012 assault.
Despite that resistance, Wolf has garnered a sizable majority of the GOP Conference as co-sponsors since introducing the measure in January. It has 146 GOP co-sponsors, with more than 80 Republicans backing it over the last month.
[…]Not one Democrat has co-sponsored the Wolf resolution.
President Obama on Monday dismissed GOP charges that his administration covered up the truth about the attacks in Benghazi, calling them a politically motivated “sideshow” that does “dishonor” to the nation’s diplomats.
He added: “The whole issue of talking points, frankly, throughout this process has been a sideshow. The fact that this keeps getting churned out, frankly, has a lot to do with political motivations.”
Wolf told The Hill in an interview, “I think you want to bring together the very best minds, you want to focus like a laser beam … bring an outside counsel to coordinate, direct and unify … bring it together in 90 days.”
Should Boehner not seek a vote on Wolf’s resolution, the Virginia congressman revealed he might have several opportunities to offer the measure as an amendment on the House floor during the appropriations bill process in June.
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Last Thursday, Wolf sent a stinging letter to Boehner, citing the support for his select committee cause the day after Oversight and Government Reform held a high-profile hearing on Benghazi.
“The revelations at [last week’s] hearing have raised serious questions about the administration’s efforts to respond to the Americans under fire at the annex in Benghazi. What remains to be seen is whether the House will be complicit in that failure, or if we will pursue the truth — wherever it may take us — to ensure that we continue to deserve the sacrifices made by the men and women who serve our country,” Wolf wrote.
Boehner last week remained firm in his commitment to follow “regular order” and allow the committees with jurisdiction to continue to share the workload.
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Since the hearing last week, seven House Republicans have formally co-sponsored Wolf’s legislation, including Deputy Whip Tom Cole (Okla.).
The ungrateful children. Don’t they know how politics works inside the Beltway? Contrary to dire warnings from the Hobbits, the center always holds — just so long as the ruling class fucking sticks together.
Now. Get your asses back in line. Or so help you, Reince Priebus will withhold funding for your re-election campaigns. And if that means the Democrats regain the House, so be it. At least then, as Nancy Pelosi once let slip, things could get back to normal in DC — where prior to the ascendence of the odious TEA Party, party really didn’t make all that much of difference.
I mean, can’t we all just go back to getting along? And while we’re at it, preferably to not paying attention to what it is your government does in your name, since (if we’re being blunt) you aren’t really equipped to understand the nuances of Congressional compromise and policy discussion?
This is big boy power, after all. You all need to stick to your bowling leagues and your Bible classes.
(h/t Dave in SoCal)
I think the Republicans investigating Benghazi and the IRS are overplaying their hand. A bunch of drama whores, if you ask me. Wahhhh! Look at me. This is why people are so cynical about government. The best way to highlight these scandals is to ignore them. Suffocate them by taking the oxygen out of them.
Now if you excuse me I have to go to an interview at MSNBC.
orangeman wore an orange tie
The moment proud father John Boehner watched his daughter say ‘I Do’ to her dreadlocked Jamaican-born love
Could it be, for these non-RINOs, that the real target is Hillary, 2016 rather than the Obamunist, now?
The Obamunist, after all, cannot run again barring some serious trashing of the Constitution (not that we wouldn’t put it past him).
I also observe the stock market reaching new highs. While this is admittedly in quantitatively eased and Ohbamunist Ohflated dollars, could it also be that the 2nd term domestic agenda of this Marxist Man-Child is now totally derailed by the scandals, and the private sector is breathing a sigh of relief accordingly?