Pelosi appoints committee members for Benghazi
Well, you knew the Democrats weren’t going to let the Republicans do this all by themselves, did you? So Pelosi, after a whole lot of drama, appointed five Democrats to the committee investigating the attack on the Benghazi consulate on September 11, 2012. Leading the list is Elijah Cummings, who you might remember, got butthurt when Darrel Issa cut off his mike when Lois Lerner pleaded the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer the questions of the committee investigating the IRS scandal. The other four Democrats, according to the Washington Post are;
Adam Smith (D-Wash.), Ranking Member, Armed Services Committee
Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.), Committee on Appropriations (Subcommittee on State & Foreign Operations), Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Linda T. Sánchez (D-Calif.), Committee on Ways and Means (Subcommittee on Oversight)
Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Armed Services Committee, Committee on Oversight & Government Reform
I’m sure the whole thing will make for good TV, but bad governance.
Category: Congress sucks
Nanny Lugosi is making it obvious that she/it is making maximum effort to stonewall the investigation and protect B. Hussein 0bama!
Thank you, San Francisco, for inflicting Granny McBotox on the rest of the country.
I have absolutely zero confidence anything at all will come of this committee–and I blame John “Kleenex” Bonehead most of all. He could have established this committee long ago but fought it, sucessfully, tooth and nail. So, what we have is a WH that will continue to avoid, lie, and obfuscate. We have the Dems in the House who will play all sorts of games with their five Pelosi plants, and we have the Speaker who, all along, opposed a thorough investigation by a committee with some teeth, until political expediency and a good game plan required otherwise. Every document and witness subpoened by the committee will be opposed by the WH. And did you know that there is no timeline for this, that the committee and its investigation can drag this out forever? (And they most certainly will.) Did you know that the Repubs have invited DONORS to become “Benghazi Watchdogs” for a $50 to $500 donation? (One wonders whether that includes an “I am a Benghazi Watchdog” sticker or mouse pad.) They won. We all lost. I was wrong. I said in the beginning of this that the truth will come out eventually. And it might, but no one will care by the time it does.
Regardless of political party, all of these snakes live in the same den. They don’t care about right or wrong, they care about power maintenance. Even if the Republicans win the Senate, Obama will not be fully boxed in because there is not enough political will to do it.
To 2/17 Air Cav and MGySgtRet I agree with both of you and can’t add better.
shouldn’t Cummings be sitting in front of the committee answering questions rather than sitting on the committee?
At the very least, he should be sitting in front of, and not on, the committee investigating the IRS/Tea Party scandal, since emails have come out that implicate him. Which explains why he’s been obstructing that investigation.
Wow, that’s like putting the late Robert Byrd (spit) on a civil rights committee!
Regarding Pelosi, I’m not sure that’s Botox. A reliable source has informed me that she was the inspiration for Charlize Theron’s character in “Snow White and The Huntsman,” complete with the life-draining black-magic human sacrifices, really unsavory relatives, and general malevolence.
That crew was put together for one purpose only. To obstruct any investigation from getting anywhere and to try and cast doubt on anything it finds. Look for the “partisan witch hunt” bomb to be dropped as fast and often as possible.
As an aside: with all seriousness Pelosi is starting to look pretty strange with that Botox stuff.
Pelosi needs to go.
She epitomizes everything wrong with politics.
Isn’t this special? Yeah, right. They appointed a committee to continue to hold no one accountable.