The Day the GOP Turned the Benghazi Tragedy Into a Farce [View all]

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Source: The Nation, By Joan Walsh

Three hours into the Select Committee on Benghazi hearing Thursday, Chairman Trey Gowdy, rocking a subdued fauxhawk, grew red with anger and slick with sweat. His GOP colleague Representative Susan Brooks, who’d printed out hundreds of pages of Clinton’s e-mail, and kept the stacks handy, stroking them occasionally, really should have offered some of that paper to Gowdy, so he could wipe himself down. The sports fan in me recognized the need for a time-out, and maybe some Gatorade, but no one else did.

The temperature rose as ranking committee Democrat Elijah Cummings objected to Gowdy’s trolling about the non-issue of Clinton-friend Sidney Blumenthal’s e-mail. Before the lunch break, Cummings and other Democrats moved to make Blumenthal’s committee testimony public, to show just how far afield of its charge to investigate the causes of the Benghazi compound attack Gowdy’s work had strayed.

But Gowdy objected, strenuously, and a little ominously. With a Draco Malfoy flourish, he closed the first half of the hearing: “I’ll tell you what, if you think you’ve heard about Sidney Blumenthal so far, wait until the next round!”

And with that, Gowdy’s credibility, if any still existed, was gone for good. It was Gowdy Doody time, and it stunk...

Continues wickedly at: http://www.thenation.com/article/the-day-the-gop-turned-the-benghazi-tragedy-into-a-farce/

Full of gems like:

"Enduring an 11-hour festival of mansplaining, with a sexist assist from GOP women, Hillary Clinton looked calm and presidential."

"It sounded like Clinton was supposed to be the mom-in-chief, not the Secretary of State."

"In Hillaryland as depicted by Gowdyworld, the only work that mattered was that done by email."