2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumIt’s All Benghazi-Paul Krugman
So Representative Kevin McCarthy, who was supposed to succeed John Boehner as speaker of the House, wont 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, didnt we?
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/09/opinion/its-all-benghazi.html?ribbon-ad-idx=5&rref=opinion&module=Ribbon&version=context®ion=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&pgtype=article
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)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."
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Kick and Recommend!