Pic Of The Moment: GOP House Majority Leader Finally Admits Benghazi Investigation Is Total Bullshit

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[yuiyoshida]

1. Why can't we fine or sue the Republican Party for 3 million. Such a waste of tax payers money.

They are the party of the rich, that should be like 10 dollars in their pocket, compared to the rest of us. Its not like they would miss it.

[ZM90]

4. I sure as hell wish they could be sued for wasting taxpayer dollars.

Hell they should pay us back for wasting trillions on a illegal war off the books during the W. Bush presidency too!

[Cirque du So-What]

3. '...untrustable.'?

What fucking language is he speaking?

[Jack Rabbit]

7. What language is he speaking?

Bushese.

[MADem]

14. He's speaking MORON--in the GOP dialect!!!

I think he should be mocked roundly and repeatedly for that gaffe!

[AlbertCat]

5. Is "untrustable" even a word?

I suppose being untrustable makes one nonelectivablenessy!



Why can't they learn English???? or go back to wherever it is they came from...

[niyad]

33. according to the dictionary, trustable is a word, so one gathers that its opposite might be, as well

although it hasn't shown up in my searches.

[AlbertCat]

36. trustable is a word,

Just add a prefix!

neotrustable

posttrustable

quadratrustable

pretrustable

subtrustable

polytrustable

I suppose you can negate it with "un-" but why not

nontrustable

detrustable

iltrustable

distrustable

imtrustable

atrustable

(I can't think of any more negative prefixes)

[Botany]

40. Well if you are gonna "Speak American" it might be but the proper.

However you might want to say:

untrustworthy or she is not trustworthy or not worthy of trust but hey
if you were dumb enough to believe that w & Cheney's war in Iraq was
going to pay for itself and spread democracy through the mid east I
guess grammar might not be a big thing for you.

AlbertCat

[Jack Rabbit]

6. Mr. McCarthy engages in post hoc reasoning

Poc hoc ergo proctor hoc (After this, therefor because of this) is a well known informal logical fallacy. For example:

We invited Mr. Smith to the picnic three weeks ago, but the picnic was postponed because of rain;
Two weeks ago we tried to hold the picnic again, we invited Mr. Smith, but again it rained;
Last week, we rescheduled the picnic, invited Mr. Smith who had to prior engagement and sent his regrets, and the picnic was held on a perfect day.

Conclusion: Mr. Smith causes rain.

It makes for a good joke at Mr. Smith's expense, but that's all.

I wonder if Mr. McCarthy would present that case anywhere but FoxNews, whose regular viewers are dumb enough to believe it; but then, they are also dumb enough to believe that Mrs. Clinton actually did something wrong concerning Benghazi.

The fact is that no one to the left of Attila the Hun is paying any attention to the GOP's phony case against Mrs. Clinton. Is she going south in the polls? Yes, but not because of a ginned up scandal. Mrs. Clinton created her own problems and her falling poll numbers have nothing to do with Benghazi or any other dead horse the Republicans continue beating.

[SoapBox]

8. Pukes and Baggers = Creeps, Crooks and Liars

[riversedge]

9. K and R--and thanks

[d_legendary1]

10. At this point that should be considered a hobby

At what point do these guys stop flushing money down the toilet and do some real investigations like repeat polluters who are still in business?

[awoke_in_2003]

22. Come on....

they can't vote to repeal ACA every day

[world wide wally]

11. I don't suppose this is any kind of abuse of power or anything… corrupt pricks

Why don't the Dems spend a few dollars and turn this into a national tv ad?

[Jim Lane]

17. I don't know whether an ad would sway any votes.

Anyone who's been paying attention to the situation and who cares about the facts already knew that the latest investigation committee empanelment was a purely political maneuver, not a serious search for truth.

Anyone who didn't know it already won't be moved by hearing what McCarthy said. They'll interpret it as "We are seriously searching for truth but it just so happens to have the side effect of exposing how bad Clinton is and therefore driving down her poll numbers."

Better commentators than I have pointed out how the right wing now exists inside its own bubble. The standards of those of us in the reality-based community don't matter.

[world wide wally]

18. That is why it is placed in an "ad" which frames the statement for those not paying attention

[stage left]

12. Lying liar slips up.

When you lie as much as these guys do, it's hard keeping up with it. And the word he was looking for was trustworthy.

[DeepModem Mom]

13. K&R!!!

[Todays_Illusion]

15. The investigations, all of them were never anything but tax paid political attacks and. . .

enthusiastically carried by every organization in this nation called news including NPR PBS.

Own the media, own the nation.

[rladdi]

16. Americans knew that when the Republicans got control there would be hundred of investigations and

committee meetings against the Democrats and it has happened. Tens of millions of our dollars wasted by the Republicans. Now this is a party who keeps preaching about lower the debt. When will they start?
The latest on Planned Parenthood is so set up and staged, we all know the purpose of the Republicans.

They never accomplished anything with who they trash, in fact, it just makes voters wanting more to defeat them.

Republicans aren't very smart because they always give away what we already knew.

I hope the American public and voters wake up to the LIES of the Republicans and give them the biggest defeat every in 2016.

Another serious issue is climate change and South Florida is flooding often. In fact the Mayor of South Florida said the water level has raised 5 inches in 5 years. The streets were just recently flooded with the full moon. Neither Bush or Rubio will recognize the flooding causes. The Mayor indicted that these politicians are on the take from businesses to disregard climate changes and the flooding.

This is the agenda of the Republicans. Become millionaires at the hands of the nation and people. Disregard any real threats for the lobbyists.

[world wide wally]

19. Nobody every suggested the Republicans are smart...

they only need to be smarter than their voters

[passiveporcupine]

23. that's like the bear joke

and just like the bear joke, unfortunately, it's the truth.

I swear I don't know how a lot of Americans ever graduated high school...and I suspect many probably didn't. But how do they even hold down a job?

[Dont call me Shirley]

20. One of the Caucus Room Conspirators (Treasoners)

http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2014/06/caucus-room-conspiracy-alive-and-well

[randys1]

26. Needs to be indicted

[Dont call me Shirley]

30. They all need to be indicted.

[Fritz Walter]

21. This is the tip of a VERY LARGE iceberg

These tactics are pervasive in the GOP. They reek of desperation! (Both they and their tactics)

For instance, here in Florida, the GOP-led legislature could not even agree on a redistricting map as ordered by the State Supreme Court. Here is one instance where the motives behind their dirty tactics were recorded and are now public knowledge.

In the recording Republican Florida State Representative Janet Adkins said the following.

"They’re a part of the population. No, they can’t vote. So when you take a look at, and I don’t know what the numbers are, but you take a look at how many minorities are in the prisons within that newly drawn proposed congressional — how many of them live in the prisons, that’s why Corrine Brown is so against having an east-west, because her concern is that they live in prisons and they can’t vote. So it’s a perfect storm.
"It's a perfect storm, you're now reducing the percentage of minorities within that district and you draw it in such a fashion that perhaps a majority, or maybe not a majority, but a number of them will live in the prisons, thereby not being able to vote. You can actually, Danny, you can be the person that will help get rid of {Rep.} Corrine Brown."

Marriage equality, wealth re-distribution and marijuana legalization are not going to destroy this country; that task is already being completed by Republicans, their donors and their sheeple voters!

They need to feel the Bern next fall!

[Stuart G]

25. I sure hope we see the rest of the iceberg.. thanks for you post, and OP..K and R

[YOHABLO]

24. They really are the most evil breed of human waste. This is an opportunity for Dems

I hope they don't miss it. Yeah, lets have an investigation on the Repubnants charade.

[Gloria]

27. Howard Fineman on Hardball said a few times that the Dems must

really nail the GOP on this...and Bernie should comment, too!!

Also said that Hillary's response, which will be part of her interview with Sharpton on Sunday 8 AM, was too tame...Now wondering if there will even be a hearing in October.....They think Elijah Cummings should be the lead on this, he's a fantastic person to do this!

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However, she has to look Presidential...she focused on the loss of her friends and the others....
This and Planned Parenthood...the SAME tactics!!! I'm wondering what this does to McCarthy's chances to be speaker! (my 2 cents))

[Tarheel_Dem]

29. ^^^^ THIS ^^^^

[Tarheel_Dem]

28. And they've been cheered along by plenty of alleged "allies". n/t

[Botany]

31. a nothing burger w/a side of make believe fries and an extra thick invisible milkshake

[ronnykmarshall]

32. My mom lives in Bakersfield ....

and she is LOVING that .... as she said "Kevin McCarthy shit in his mess kit".

[niyad]

34. of course, most of us know this. but, it says something about the arrogance, the hubris, of this

insane party, that there is no longer even a veneer, a pretense, of actual governing.

[mackerel]

35. Is Untrustable even a word?

[SusanaMontana41]

39. Did you look it up on the Internets?

You know, the series of tubes?

[rusty quoin]

37. They impeached a president for lying about a blowjob.

They have no standards. They have no scruples. They have no interest in governing. They are parasites. We should all hate them.

[SusanaMontana41]

38. That is despicable and not at all surprising. n/t