Friday, May 02, 2014

SO, HOW CLOSE TO HILLARY'S PUBLICATION DATE WILL THE BENGHAZI SELECT COMMITTEE'S FIRST MEETING BE?

So John Boehner is going to convene a select committee on Benghazi: This seems logical:

Then again, why does this help the GOP in 2014? Sure, it seems designed to rile up the base -- but base voters (as opposed to the rest of us) are already in (to use Charlie Pierce's phrase) "a permanent state of rile" with regard to Benghazi (Obamacare too, for that matter). They couldn't be more motivated to vote than they are now. Where's the potential gain? And how do you tar Democrats in the House and Senate with the alleged misdeeds of the executive branch?

So I see the 2014 connection, but I wonder if this has more to do with 2016. After all, this anouncement comes five and a half weeks before the publication date for Hillary Clinton's new book, which is June 10. Think Boehner's crew might manage to convene the week of June 9? Or do something high-profile that week to try to steal Hillary's thunder, and to put her book tour under a big Benghazi cloud? I don't know how fast these things tend to happen, but we'll sure be talking about Benghazi all that week, and in the weeks to come, if Republicans have anything to do with it.

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And on that note, I'm out out here for the weekend. There'll be guest bloggers here, though, so stop by. See you Monday.

5 comments:

Victor said...

You know, I actually think I'm ok with another Benghazi investigative committee.

That will take up time that the Republicans would be spending on screwing over women, children, seniors, and everyone who's not an old white Conservative male.

But this is really all about tarnishing Obama's reputation, but, especially, Hillary Clinton - whom they are terrified of, in 2016.

Victor said...

Getting out of Dodge this weekend, just one step ahead of the law - AGAIN! - huh, Steve? ;-)

Enjoy your weekend! :-)

Roger said...

Have fun at the Correspondents' Dinner!

Ken_L said...

It's possible conservatives have gotten so used to campaigning on the single issue that Obama is a terrible president, they can't break the habit.

Grung_e_Gene said...

Because Benghazi...

Shall be the bloody shirt the Conservatives will wave at every Democratic candidate for the next 25 years...