"Republicans Make 'Benghazi' A Frequent Refrain" by Ari Shapiro at NPR

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Republicans Make 'Benghazi' A Frequent Refrain

by Ari Shapiro at NPR


http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/02/20/172516645/republicans-make-benghazi-a-frequent-refrain

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Benghazi has become a sort of catchword. To Republicans, it symbolizes everything bad about the Obama administration. It's not the first word to fill that role. At the start of the president's first term, it was Obamacare. Later, Solyndra.

Now Benghazi helps Republicans raise money, fire up the base and take a whack at the guy in charge. And in this case, unlike with Obamacare or Solyndra, the administration acknowledges it screwed up.

"We need to make sure that never happens again," says Tommy Vietor, a White House spokesman. "We all have a role in this. And when the focus gets politicized — when words like 'cover-up' are used, when we're focused only on talking points, not what do these individuals need to keep them safe — that's when I think we kind of miss the runway."

Beyond the pressure cookers of Congress and AM talk radio, even many Republicans agree that the debate over Benghazi has moved away from substance into a political hall of mirrors

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1. As if they really care

about the four lives lost when four thousand never affected them.