Yes, it’s true that even after the President went (briefly) before the press yesterday, repeated a set of lies that we already know to be lies — and we know this as a matter of fact, not conjecture, based on internal State Department emails and, once corroborated, to the under-oath testimony of the Benghazi whistleblowers — and essentially dared the Republican leadership (and to some extend the mainstream press) to try to investigate the matter further, intimating that his strategy under such conditions would be to paint any in-depth digging into the Administration’s actions on the night 4 Americans, including an ambassador, were murdered by Islamic radicals, as a partisan political witch hunt being executed by a vast right wing conspiracy (the very one, as an aside, the IRS seems to have been desirous of shutting down), Speaker Boehner has doggedly refused to impanel any special commission with subpoena power to truly get to the bottom of what we all know to be the Administration’s dereliction of duty and subsequent attempt at a cover up.
Which is to say, far from evincing cowardice, what the Speaker is showing is a remarkable bravery in standing up to those shrieking voices demanding that we the people, whom the government ostensibly represents, be given a full accounting of the attacks and their aftermath, steadfastly refusing to do so even as he comes under enormous pressure from a growing number of Congressional Republicans and a loud outcry from the conservative media.
I mean, if you are willing to fight with such force and conviction in order to remain uncommitted to getting at the truth — despite the pressure being put on you by your own party and your own constituencies — and you are willing to do so in order to keep a low profile, to keep the GOP out of the line of attack by an historic President and a hostile press under the belief that remaining noncommittal and docile will allow you to keep control of the House, you are something of a Party hero!
And all the people who’ve in the past forgiven or spun or rationalized your refusals to take to a hill and make a stand should be applauding you now, not braying about Benghazi on their blogs and in their columns. After all, it is they who at least partially gave you cover to promote and follow this particular electoral strategy.
Because it’s all about winning, remember? Pragmatism!
How diabolical, then, that these erstwhile allies have their fingers in the political winds and are beginning to feel that taking the kid-glove approach to Obama may no longer be the best idea politically and professionally, that he is in fact vulnerable now, with multiple scandals on his plate, so it’s time to pile on, to dish out the red meat to the conservative base they normally dismiss as True Believers, and if that means leaving you in the lurch, well, they aren’t leaders now, are they. So they are free to drift with the political breezes.
Whereas you? You are a leader. And so your almost stubborn commitment to remaining non-committal is a sign of enormous bravery, and your dedication to political timidity as an electoral strategy — even as your former supporters turn against — a sign of real vision and principle.
Kudos, sir. We salute you!
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Not so fast. Out of the way, Orange Man!
GOP defies Boehner on special Benghazi panel
The way the GOP leadership has been reacting to these myriad of scandal tells me that our pragmatic betters don’t want any digging into the shit that they’ve pulled over the past couple couple. Boner’s been in congress for a looooong time, he’s terrified that someone will bring back the special counsel, so he’s gonna protect his phony baloney* job however he can.
Seriously, it’s like the city council president refusing to comment on the $25,000 in unpaid parking tickets run up by the mayor’s brother.
* I’ve been told it’s not bologna if it’s fried. That’s baloney.
Appearing Together Again today in a hoofer’s romp to the crowd’s delight, at 1:00 pm:
Fred Astaire and Ginger RogersEric Holder and Kathleen Sebelius, Tap-Dancing Around the Truth!Tickets still available, but selling fast.
We need the mothers of the fallen to confront the feckless Washington “leadership” directly. After all, they have Absolute Moral Authority in matter such as this. Or so I was led to believe.
UNEXPECTEDLY!
The time has come.
The time is now.
Just go.
Go.
GO!
I don’t care how.
You can go by foot,
you can go by cow.
John A. Boehner, will you please go now!
“Kudos, sir. We salute you!”
I hope he gets his ass primaried and saluted right out of office.
Not so fast. Out of the way, Orange Man!
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?