2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThis week marks the end of the Benghazi ‘scandal’
Hillary Clinton will be testifying before the Select Committee on Benghazi on Thursday, and by the time she walks out of that hearing room, chances are that all the Republicans hopes of using this issue to bring Clinton down will be officially gone.
The timing of Clintons testimony couldnt have worked out better for her, coming as it is after a string of revelations and embarrassments for the committee. First, then-presumptive Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy said on Fox News that the committees purpose was to bring down Clintons poll numbers, a gaffe that had an extraordinary impact, especially when you consider that he was only acknowledging what everyone in Washington already knew. Then we learned that the Select Committee has all but abandoned investigating Benghazi to focus on Clintons emails (and that committee staffers are so busy theyve formed a wine club and a gun-buying club).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/10/19/this-week-marks-the-end-of-the-benghazi-scandal/
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)But alas, the GOP never gives up until all avenues have been exhausted 100 million times or more.
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)of the CIA looking for communications between them and Hillary or Cummings.
thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)And when she defends herself from the yelling, incompetent boobs of the GOP by talking over them and asking if she could finish, she will be painted as an hysterical harpy not suited for the highest office in the land.............The narrative has been set.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)The Democrats and Rethugs will be objecting to one another and she will look like the only adult in the room.
brush
(53,794 posts)And then about McCarthy, and Hanna, and the investigator who was forced out all admitted that the committee was only there to bring down Hillary.