May 11, 2014
It
didn’t take long for the Democrat ruling class, infesting Washington’s
power corridors, to become habituated to saying something and having it
accepted as truth without question. When anything happens to disrupt
their sojourn amongst the unicorns of their fancy, however, Democrats
have a tendency to resort to doubling down on dogmatic mythology to score points, relying on volume and repetition instead of sense.
For
years, despite the best/worst efforts of the Democrat party to subvert
the cause and meaning behind the Benghazi attack, the people have
remained outraged and have refused to be shielded from a Democrat
political agenda that has yet to be laid bare. When e-mails, previously
redacted and withheld from Congress, were unearthed by Judicial Watch’s
successful lawsuit against The White House, John Boehner reversed his
previous stance on launching investigative hearings on Benghazi. It
appeared that not only had there been a deliberately fabricated tale,
instructing Obama's minions on what to say and how to say it, but the
e-mail specifically stated that the tale was designed to serve the president’s agenda – to make him look good and deny that Benghazi had anything to do with faulty presidential policies.
The
White House immediately began to try to defuse the bomb they’d
launched. Jay Carney denied that he’d ever lied then denied that the
e-mails, written in plain English, really were about Benghazi at all.
But it was too late.
The
story had exploded, and the demand for House hearings could no longer
be dodged, even by Boehner. An undisguised antagonist of the
conservative base, Boehner nevertheless appointed Congressman Trey
Gowdy, R-SC, a hard-line conservative, to chair the committee. Gowdy’s
appointment as chairman made matters worse for Democrats. Cue Democrat
panic.
Depending
on who is being quoted, Democrat strategy for containing the fallout is
all over the map.
Responses in the last couple of days range from
muddled vehemence to sanctimonious pity to attempts to convince America
that the committee is nothing but a political gambit. FOX News quoted Nancy Pelosi.
Her comments appeared to display equal parts projection and
Dissociative Identity Disorder: “What we've asked for is as much
bipartisanship as possible,” but also, “[t]he fact is this is a stunt.
This is a political stunt; that's what this is. We've been there, done
this, over and over again.”
Then there is CNN’s report,
citing Steny Hoyer, number-two Democrat in the House. Hoyer seems to
share the afflictions. He called for meaningful bipartisanship: “If
they [Republicans] want to have a substantive effort, it ought to be an
equally balanced committee so this is not an exercise in partisanship.”
He urged a Democrat boycott in the next breath: “Hoyer said he would
urge all fellow Democrats to vote against the bill creating the
[committee].” Just to be certain that he’d covered all of the bases,
Hoyer’s parting shot attempted to sell the idea that a House
investigation proves that Republicans believe that Darrell Issa is
incompetent: “Either they [the House] think Mr. Issa is a competent
chairman and is pursuing a competent investigation or they don't[.]”
Darrell Issa, who doesn’t think he is incompetent, supports the House
hearing and is a huge advocate for Trey Gowdy serving as chair.
The back-benchers contribute to the Democrat spin cycle. Charles Rangel, D-NY, shares his own Sybil-wannabe moment. CNSnews.com provided a platform:
- Ennui: "I don't think people, Americans, Democratic or Republicans, are going to lose sleep over Benghazi.
- Pity: “I think it's tragic that the Republican Party would destroy itself in 2016 by not having one issue that the American people believe should be a priority…”
- Deflection: Issa's Oversight Committee “has had all of these hours and days and weeks and months investigating this, that now you're saying you have no confidence in him, so you have to bring in a new member to head up a new committee to find the answers?”
Democrats
resurrect bipartisanship only when they are at a disadvantage.
Remember when they lost the House in 2010? After losing over 60 seats,
Democrats insisted that their meager numbers be seated
among the Republicans, who vastly outnumbered them, during the State of
the Union speech. That had never been done before. It had nothing to
do with “bipartisanship”; they didn’t want to look bad in front of a
television audience. Strangely enough, the issue of bipartisanship
didn’t trouble Democrats when they literally locked Republicans out of House Oversight and Government Reform Committee meetings in 2009.
Even The Daily Beast, a longtime supporter of POTUS, came out against
the disgraceful behavior of Democrat subterfuge from the top down. A
column, written by Ron Christie, despite negative comments about the
president, cannot be attributable to racism. Mr. Christie, too, is
black.
I read with interest my Daily Beast colleague Michael Tomasky’s column Wednesday, in which he asserted that the establishment of a Special Select Committee to investigate Benghazi is nothing more than bulls**t…I’m troubled by the motivation of many on the left, who have sought to demonize anyone who questions the narrative the Obama administration has spun…I’ll tell you what’s BS, Mr. Tomasky: The Obama administration has misled, dissembled, and otherwise given the finger to the families of those who lost their lives that night in service to their country…We need a Special Select Committee on Benghazi to…ensure that such a disaster never occurs again. We need truth, not bullsh*t, from the president and his administration, but so far, that’s all they’ve been shoveling.
One
can only hope that Democrats, in their misguided arrogance, will elect
to boycott the House Benghazi hearings. Unlike ObamaCare, IRS and NSA
misdealing, and a rogue Justice Department, this is an issue with
persistent “legs.” Americans remain infuriated at the ham-handed,
derisive, and insultingly incompetent arguments Democrats have thrown
against the wall, hoping that something – anything – will stick.
If
Democrats in the House take their ball and go home, it will provide
final evidence to anyone watching that they are craven hypocrites rather
than persecuted victims of Republican injustice.
