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DemocratSinceBirth

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Fri Oct 9, 2015, 12:12 PM Oct 2015

It’s All Benghazi-Paul Krugman






So Representative Kevin McCarthy, who was supposed to succeed John Boehner as speaker of the House, won’t be pursuing the job after all. He would have faced a rough ride both winning the post and handling it under the best of circumstances, thanks to the doomsday caucus — the fairly large bloc of Republicans demanding that the party cut off funds to Planned Parenthood, or kill Obamacare, or anyway damage something liberals like, by shutting down the government and forcing it into default.

Still, he finished off his chances by admitting — boasting, actually — that the endless House hearings on Benghazi had nothing to do with national security, that they were all about inflicting political damage on Hillary Clinton.

But we all knew that, didn’t we?


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It’s All Benghazi-Paul Krugman (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2015 OP
I'm inclined to disagree with Krugman on this one Jim Lane Oct 2015 #1
Telling the truth hurt McCarthy's chances of leadership Iliyah Oct 2015 #2
 

Jim Lane

(11,175 posts)
1. I'm inclined to disagree with Krugman on this one
Fri Oct 9, 2015, 12:20 PM
Oct 2015

As he says about the Benghazi farce, we all knew that. Gowdy's committee had credibility only with the Faux News true believers -- the actual Hillary-haters out there, as opposed to the DUers who disagree with some of her policies. For the true believers, McCarthy's incautious admission was easily explained away; the committee was formed for the purpose of finally getting to the truth that had somehow eluded all the previous investigations, and it just happened to have the side effect of hurting Clinton politically.

My guess is that McCarthy hurt himself somewhat in his colleagues' eyes, but not enough to cost him the Speakership.

More likely is that either the rumors of an adulterous affair or true, or that he looked ahead and saw himself in the same impossible place where Boehner found himself, and he decided, "Who needs that."

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