"Meet the chief prosecutor in the GOP’s Benghazi show trial"

[applegrove]

Meet the chief prosecutor in the GOP’s Benghazi show trial

By Dana Milbank at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-meet-the-chief-prosecutor-in-the-gops-benghazi-show-trial/2014/05/07/0dc3d550-d634-11e3-95d3-3bcd77cd4e11_story.html?tid=rssfeed

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Gowdy, who deploys courtroom theatrics on the House floor and in committee hearings, often wears his gray hair long and slicked back and has gained attention for wild-eyed, high-volume bursts of pious indignation. The rise of another Southern white male to the top of the GOP probably won’t improve its demographic difficulties, but Gowdy’s climb is a key example of how the Republican Party has blunted the tea party threat in large part by co-opting the movement.

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GOP leaders are apparently aware that their Gowdy new look could be problematic. Republican House leaders emerging from a closed-door caucus meeting declared to the TV cameras that they were all about creating jobs — omitting from their opening statements any mention of their investigatory obsession.

“I hosted my fifth-annual jobs fair,” began Rep. Lynn Jenkins (Kan.).

“Today I wanted to talk more about jobs,” announced Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.).




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[tularetom]

1. Jesus, have they heard him talk?

He sounds like Gomer Pyle on steroids.

It really won't matter what he says, he's going to come off like a hyperkinetic hick.

Making a buffoon like Gowdy the face of their Benghazigate clusterfuck will bite them in the ass. And to make it even better, it's gonna piss off Darrell Issa big time.

[applegrove]

2. I know nothing about him. I hope you are right. Seems like the GOP is scraping the bottom

of the barrel talentwise.

[Historic NY]

3. "Grand Inquisitor"

gilipollas......

[Blue Owl]

4. Boner's finest

n/t