Boehner to appoint select Benghazi committee

[hue]

Source: boston.com (AP)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker John Boehner will schedule a vote to create a select committee to investigate the Benghazi attack.

Boehner says the Obama administration misled the American people after the deadly attack in 2012. And he says emails released this week show that it withheld documents from congressional investigators.

He asks, quote, ‘‘What else about Benghazi is the Obama administration still hiding from the American people?’’

A senior Republican aide says the speaker may choose Republican congressman Trey Gowdy of South Carolina to chair the select committee.

The aide isn’t authorized to speak publicly on the matter and demanded anonymity.

Read more: http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2014/05/02/boehner-appoint-select-benghazi-committee/Z9ZMcfTGg8CoRYqb63rPnI/story.html

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Oh no! The recurring nightmare...

[giftedgirl77]

1. I want a committee appointed to investigate

how much money has been wasted on complete bs, I.e.

ACA Repeal votes
Gov Shutdowns
IRS Investigations
Bengahzi
Anything else Issa has been in charge of

Until that shit is done mum is the word.

[tofuandbeer]

2. Holy Moly! The GOP just won't give up on repealing ACA and finding something in Benghazi.

Has their even been a more useless Congress than the current one?
The U.S. needs JOBS...J.O.B.S.! Do something! Fock!

It kind of makes me wonder, perhaps they created some new web of lies, and are going to do a "Oh my! Look at what we found!" bit.
Filthy pack o' liars.

Then, as always, they'll get caught in the lie, brush it under the carpet, and people will still vote for them.

[kardonb]

45. GOP

they are specialists in running their ignorant , empty heads against immovable walls . Result : more brain damage ( if that is even possible ) .

[tofuandbeer]

49. agreed

[chknltl]

3. Which witch is wich?

Witch hunt needs 'wich-huntors' .

[Plucketeer]

4. Fucking UNbeleivable !!!

I REALLY take offense that Boner assumes we're all as stupid as they'd like us to be. What a scum-sucking FAKE he and his minions are.

[judesedit]

5. Funny how nobody mentions the 13 embassy attacks with 69 deaths during Bushco admin

WHY THE HELL NOT is my question???

[deurbano]

8. Or Beirut (Reagan)!

[deutsey]

21. Obama blew it

He should've invaded a small, defenseless country a couple days after Benghazi in order to distract everyone the way Reagan did after Beirut.

[Submariner]

33. ...

[SunSeeker]

48. Those graphics say it all.

[Populist_Prole]

6. Political masturbation and nothing more

It's a move to appease the wingnuts of their base in the face of collapse of their party and its agenda. Keep them mad as hell, lest they get too disheatened and throw in the towel.

[groundloop]

11. Actually I fear that it's much more than that....

If they can find any little shred of evidence (fabricated or not) I believe impeachment hearings won't be far behind. The GOPers desperately need a distraction such as this to help them in the upcoming elections since Obamacare hasn't failed the way they hoped.

[Auggie]

17. I can see that happening

[frylock]

40. impeachment hearings would be the death knell of the republican party

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. They're just becoming caricatures of themselves now.

[deurbano]

9. They can't stop themselves...

[KatyMan]

10. I see this as a postitive for 2014...

Nothing else they've tried can sway the electorate, so now they're doing their damnedest to make sure the teabaggers come out to vote.

[LongTomH]

12. Then they can resume the investigations of Whitewater and Vince Foster

[sakabatou]

13. Yup

[ladjf]

14. Is this a joke? nt

[hue]

26. No and yes. Boner is really initiating this investigation & the Repukes are a joke.

[ladjf]

51. Why would anyone vote for those boneheads? nt

[SoapBox]

15. Maybe a select committee of special crooks, criminals and liars?

...those would be the required minimums to be on the so-called committee.

[MrScorpio]

16. Isn't Gowdy one those fucking morons who tried to sue the Prez for doing his job?

Jeez.

[hrmjustin]

20. Really?

[Bozvotros]

24. A lifetime progressive?

Well then certainly you must know that Obama personally made the video and then ordered the attacks from his prayer rug in the oval office. For you to detect fishiness here means you have finally recovered your olfactory sense after eight years and 10 tons of dead mackerels the last administration left rotting on the constitution while maintaining the right of total secrecy about it all. Good for you!

[arcane1]

19. "Now that Obamacare is popular, we go with election plan B"

[Dawson Leery]

22. Do not be suprised if Democrats make gains in the House due to this witch hunt.

[yurbud]

23. Have Benghazi probes cost more than 9/11 ones? Also, Republicans spent less on 9/11 probes than

investigations into where Bill Clinton put his dick and when did he know it.

[Dawson Leery]

35. The GOP distracted Clinton from doing his job.

[yurbud]

39. actually, he didn't seem to distracted--they mostly distracted themselves.

[IkeRepublican]

25. Sorry, Pubbies

Without the blow job, you got nothing.

Which, of course, we know they have nothing. It's just a ruse to get their base out to the polls and a convenient smoke screen for their disregard for wages and economical issues.

The bad thing is that the media is going to be all too willing to drop to their knees with drooling mouths to orally receive Republican phallus. That's the big caveat and the Republicans are counting on it. Otherwise, they wouldn't bother with this.

So, the Democrats had better stick to the wage and economic issues like Clinton did during Monica. And Obama needs to keep his yap shut about botched executions and the like because that further enables the Teapukes.

[truebrit71]

27. No vote on extending/reinstating unemployment benefits...but he has the time for this shit...

Fucking.Partisan.Hack.

[BanzaiBonnie]

28. These endless investigations and wasting money on them, is one (of many)

of the factors that drove me from the Republican Party.

Once I caught on that they were not fiscally responsible, I began to question everything.

[asjr]

29. This might be a very good time to begin talking

about going back in time to consider bringing the War Hags from Bush's reign out in the sun. Cheney now has a real heart that can attack.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

30. I don't know Boehner

How often do you beat your wife?

[awoke_in_2003]

31. A bunch of hoopla because four people died

Who cares that 60 died in several embassy attacks during Bush's reign, and thousands die every day in his country due to poverty?

[Gman]

32. Running against the ACA isn't working

The clock is running. They've gotta have something. However there's nothing there or anywhere.

[Brother Buzz]

34. Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat

This time for sure

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

37. Or in Boehner's case

Watch me pull a scandal out of my ass.

[Adrahil]

36. Well, since their ACA narrative fell apart, what ELSE are they gonna talk about?

It's not like they have anything substantive to offer in terms of policy.

[Arkana]

38. A new group of people for Fruitcakes Anonymous?

Yawn. I'm sure Barack Obama is quaking in his boots.

[derby378]

41. I don't think Boehner gives a damn about Benghazi - he's looking for a little blue dress

The Whitewater investigation eventually turned up Monica Lewinsky through sheer dumb luck. I think the GOP is hoping their dragnet will scoop up something similar, and to hell with the embassy attack.

[stillcool]

42. please proceed Mr. Speaker..

[Mister Ed]

55. +1

[olegramps]

43. Boehner is an immoral bastard of the lowest rank.

He, along with his fellow racists, are the enemies of the working class. What has always amassed me is that some African-Americans and Latinos actually belong to the this tribe of hate mongers. It is beyond my comprehension that people of color support a party in which the vast majority actually despise them. They kiss the ass of the very same people who are determined to deny minorities health care and refuse to allow debate on raising the minimum wage. They are regarded with outright contempt yet people like Michael Steel get on TV and plead their cause. I can't help from considering that they are crass opportunists that are willing to sell their soul for a buck. If someone can explain it to me, I would appreciate it.

[LynneSin]

44. I want to appoint a committee to tell us how we got down to 6.3% unemployment...

while the GOP sat on their asses and did NOTHING.

[Skittles]

46. Hillary really, REALLY scares them

yes INDEED

[chuckstevens]

47. Nancy Pelosi

After Bush/Cheney lied us into a war, Nancy Pelosi famously said in 2006 that "Impeachment was off the table" This was the stupidest political move in American history. Even if you weren't going to do it, why would you publicly state it?

Now a non-scandal dreamed up by Rep Issa and the Obama haters will flame the notion that Obama is somehow responsible for Benghazi and Fox Fucking News will make people believe it. Next, they will call for impeachment, especially if the Republic-pukes retake the Senate.

The Democrats should shop trying to always take the "high ground" and realize that we are dealing with a republican Party of insane, racist, jerks who will stop at nothing to destroy a Democratic president when he hasn't done anything wrong, yet give pass to the president from their party who allowed 9/11 to happen and then lied us into a preemptive war. There are NO RULES ANYMORE, so stop pretending there are!

[ucrdem]

50. Congress Subpoenas John Kerry To Testify On Benghazi

http://www.livetradingnews.com/congress-subpoenas-john-kerry-to-testify-on-benghazi-47948.htm#.U2QsWXDAxPA

[Gothmog]

52. I understand the ghost of Joe McCarthy will be leading this panel

I wonder who else will be added to this panel.

The GOP is really overplaying this issue and it is going to backfire on them.

[ucrdem]

53. Crazy days.

[CBHagman]

54. Get a load of what's on the Boehner website.

Readers might be forgiven for believing that Boehner sees the administration, and not the attackers, as the enemy.

[url]http://boehner.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=378677[/url]

“The House committees that have been investigating this attack have done extraordinary work, using their subpoena power, holding dozens of hearings, and conducting hundreds of interviews. Without this work we would not know much that we do today. But it’s clear that questions remain, and the administration still does not respect the authority of Congress to provide proper oversight. This dismissiveness and evasion requires us to elevate the investigation to a new level. I intend for this select committee to have robust authority, and I will expect it to work quickly to get answers for the American people and the families of the victims.

[ucrdem]

56. World Nut Daily:

GLOBAL JIHAD: HOUSE DELCARES WAR ON BENGHAZI COVERUP

Select committee to investigate White House

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link removed but you get the idea . . .

[Strelnikov_]

57. They really are afraid of Hillary n/t

[Blue Owl]

58. Cream of the crap

n/t

[cynzke]

59. WE WILL CONVENE.....

a SELECT committee this November!