Trey Gowdy Just Elected Hillary Clinton President

[Liberal_in_LA]

Thursday's asinine Benghazi hearing solved every major one of candidate Clinton’s strategic problems



With Thursday's interminable, pointless, haranguing, disorganized, utterly amateurish attempt at a smear job, the Republicans and their tenth-rate congressional attack schnauzer, South Carolina's Trey Gowdy, got people feeling sorry for Hillary Clinton. Over the course of 11 long hours, they made the most eloquent argument for a Hillary Clinton presidency yet offered by anyone, including Clinton herself.

Hillary's detractors, and I've been one of them, have long complained that she is a politician without firm principles. She, her husband and the other Third Way types who've dominated the modern Democratic Party specialize in a kind of transactional politics, in which issues are endlessly parsed to maintain a balance between fundraising interests and populist concerns. It's a strategy that wins elections, but doesn't get the heart racing much.

But there is one overriding principle that does animate and define the Clinton campaign, and that's keeping Republicans out of office. For years, this has been the Democratic Party's stock answer for every sordid legislative compromise, every shameless capitulation to expediency, every insulting line of two-faced stump rhetoric offered to get over: We have to do this to beat the Republicans.

I never bought that argument, for a lot of reasons, but Trey Gowdy made it look pretty good Thursday. Those idiots represent everything that is wrong not just with the Republican Party, but with modern politics in general. It's hard to imagine a political compromise that wouldn't be justified if its true aim would be to keep people like those jackasses out of power.



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[BeyondGeography]

1. The All the President's Men bit is perfect and hilarious

Taibbi is a treasure.

[riversedge]

2. Wrong! i DO NOT THINK folks felt sorry for her. What they say was a strong intelligent woman who

could-and did stand up for herself and her State Department (she was the boss at the time). She stood her ground. Not feeling sorry for herself either. I saw that on this board also (even from the Sander supporters). We are proud of her.


With Thursday's interminable, pointless, haranguing, disorganized, utterly amateurish attempt at a smear job, the Republicans and their tenth-rate congressional attack schnauzer, South Carolina's Trey Gowdy, got people feeling sorry for Hillary Clinton.

[Buzz cook]

3. I'm waiting for the conspiracy theories.

Because Clinton benefited from the hearings, it follows that she was behind the hearings working with the conservatives.

imho the MSM will disappear Clinton's appearance at the hearings and go on being republican stenographers on Benghazi.

[demigoddess]

4. ......