"GOP’s Benghazi hangup is baffling-It is rude & crude. It is disrespectful & it is downright nuts"

[kpete]

The GOP’s Benghazi hangup is baffling
By Richard Cohen

But this is the way the president’s opponents talk. It is rude. It is crude. It is disrespectful and it is downright nuts — but it is not limited to radio talkers. It is the lingua franca of the Republican Party.

I feel about the GOP as I do about the religion of others: I don’t get it. I know feelings can be strong and reason plays little part in it — faith is faith, after all — and this is the way I see the GOP snits about the Internal Revenue Service and, more pertinent, Benghazi. What are these people talking about?

So what is Benghazi? Beats me, I am tempted to say. But I recognize it as a transparent Republican attempt to provide the party’s base with grist for its fantasy mill. Is it possible the Obama administration fudged the nature of the attack, refusing to apply the term “terrorist”? Yes, of course. Did the White House spinmeisters put their hands all over it? Could be. But is any of this so momentous that it has required 13 public hearings and now a select House committee that will delve and delve feverishly — for what?


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[AceAcme]

1. Ahoy Boys - Big Stinkin Freakin FAIL off the hard whacko stinkin starboard side

[Still Sensible]

2. It's desperation

So many things are trending positive, they can't gin up anything else.