Republicans Don’t Appear Inclined to Do Much More Than Grumble About the FBI’s Clinton Decision

[DonViejo]

By Ben Mathis-Lilley

FBI Director James Comey announced Tuesday morning that his agency would not recommend prosecuting Hillary Clinton for conducting official business via a personal email address while secretary of state. The response from Republican leaders and conservative pundits has been disappointed but resigned. From prominent California Rep. Darrell Issa:

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What you see there is a lot of people who are unhappy about the decision and still believe Hillary Clinton may have committed a criminal act. But what you don't see are any demands for further investigations, personal attacks on Comey's integrity, or suggestions that Clinton needs to drop out of the presidential race. The GOP appears to be chalking this one up as a loss and moving on.

Why does the party that investigated Benghazi about 900 times seem willing to let this go? Here are a few possible reasons.

The FBI's decision was not unexpected. Previous reports on the investigation had indicated that nothing the agency had found constituted "smoking gun"–type evidence of misconduct that would make a prosecution unavoidable. Outrage over Clinton's impending nonindictment has already been burning off for months. It might not be possible to get any more political mileage out of this than has already been gotten.

The Benghazi hearings demonstrated the limits of endless outrage. The GOP's umpteenth Benghazi committee, led by Trey Gowdy, put on hearings that seemed ridiculous to nonpartisan observers, birthed a pro-Hillary meme image, and concluded in a lot of mainstream-media headlines about how nothing new had been discovered. Again, GOP leaders might be realizing this particular well has run dry.

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[geek tragedy]

1. nothing they can do but whine.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. These issues will never stop until the

compromised Media does a 180 and start asking the Rethugs,what the hell are you people doing. Until then,no zero change. It sells merchandise and after all it is a for profit Infotainment Industry cranking out one false equivalency after another.

[Iliyah]

3. KNX here in Los Angeles 24/7 non-stop negative with parade of GOPers, legal experts,

lawyers in favor of T-rump and GOPs.

They had the Issa and other GOPs making comments - this warrant indictments blah blah blah.