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Top Republican: Let’s Make Planned Parenthood The Next Benghazi
Source: Think Progress
Top Republican: Let’s Make Planned Parenthood The Next Benghazi
BY EMILY ATKIN SEP 30, 2015 11:31AM
As he makes his case to become the next Speaker of the House, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has been touting his party’s role in damaging Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s reputation by creating the House Select Committee on Benghazi. And now, he says, he wants Republicans to do the same thing to Planned Parenthood.
In two television appearances Monday night, McCarthy — one of the top contenders to replace outgoing Speaker John Boehner — suggested that the committee’s investigation into the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya was directly responsible for Clinton’s declining poll numbers. These came despite previous assertions from House Republican leaders that the investigation was a non-partisan effort “not about targeting Clinton, but finding facts” about the 2012 attack.
But in one interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, McCarthy said the select committee process worked so well at discrediting Clinton that it should also be used to build support for defunding Planned Parenthood at the federal level.
“When you look at the poll numbers of Hillary Clinton, they’ve dropped, unfavorables pretty high,” McCarthy said. “If we really want to be able to show what this Planned Parenthood has done — you see a few videos, so there’s real question — have the select committee get all the information, all the hearings, so the public can see that.”
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BY EMILY ATKIN SEP 30, 2015 11:31AM
As he makes his case to become the next Speaker of the House, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has been touting his party’s role in damaging Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s reputation by creating the House Select Committee on Benghazi. And now, he says, he wants Republicans to do the same thing to Planned Parenthood.
In two television appearances Monday night, McCarthy — one of the top contenders to replace outgoing Speaker John Boehner — suggested that the committee’s investigation into the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya was directly responsible for Clinton’s declining poll numbers. These came despite previous assertions from House Republican leaders that the investigation was a non-partisan effort “not about targeting Clinton, but finding facts” about the 2012 attack.
But in one interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, McCarthy said the select committee process worked so well at discrediting Clinton that it should also be used to build support for defunding Planned Parenthood at the federal level.
“When you look at the poll numbers of Hillary Clinton, they’ve dropped, unfavorables pretty high,” McCarthy said. “If we really want to be able to show what this Planned Parenthood has done — you see a few videos, so there’s real question — have the select committee get all the information, all the hearings, so the public can see that.”
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Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/09/30/3707380/mccarthy-benghazi-hillary-clinton/
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