"GOP’s Benghazi hangup is baffling-It is rude & crude. It is disrespectful & it is downright nuts"
The GOPs Benghazi hangup is baffling
By Richard Cohen
But this is the way the presidents opponents talk.
It is rude. It is crude. It is disrespectful and it is downright nuts but it is not limited to radio talkers. It is the lingua franca of the Republican Party.
I feel about the GOP as I do about the religion of others: I dont get it. I know feelings can be strong and reason plays little part in it faith is faith, after all and this is the way I see the GOP snits about the Internal Revenue Service and, more pertinent, Benghazi. What are these people talking about?
So what is Benghazi? Beats me, I am tempted to say. But
I recognize it as a transparent Republican attempt to provide the partys base with grist for its fantasy mill. Is it possible the Obama administration fudged the nature of the attack, refusing to apply the term terrorist? Yes, of course. Did the White House spinmeisters put their hands all over it? Could be. But is any of this so momentous that it has required 13 public hearings and now a select House committee that will delve and delve feverishly for what?
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