Because there is no cure for The Stupid:
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) today announced that Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) will continue his work as chairman of the Select Committee on the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya in the 114th Congress.
That birth certificate stuff eventually stopped. The Benghazi nonsense will never end.
“On September 11, 2012, four Americans were killed in a brutal terrorist attack in Libya. Two years later, the American people still have far too many questions about what happened that night – and why. That’s why I will reappoint Rep. Trey Gowdy and the Republican members of the House Select Committee to investigate the events in Benghazi in the 114th Congress. I look forward to the definitive report Chairman Gowdy and the Select Committee will present to the American people.”
Yes, “the definitive report” will differ from the Select House Committee on Intelligence’s report because it won’t be garbage, full of crap, or totally messed up.
It will, however, be a total waste of everyone’s time.
Maybe Boehner shouldn’t be appointing these stupid Republicans to these committees, hmmm? Or maybe he’s too drunk to remember that he appointed those committees.
Now I understand how my parents felt when I would come home drunk and rambling. You’re scared you know.
Distraction that sucks up political oxygen is the whole point. Plus it keeps the crazies happy in their belief that there was something sinister about the handling of the Benghazi compound by Obama/Clinton/Rice.
If only I could believe that someday GOP politicians will be held to account for their decades of horrible public policies and their costly total waste of time efforts. When the crops fail, wells run dry, and half of Florida is underwater, nobody will remember the names of those that had Benghazi as their top priority instead of climate change.
No, when next the Democrats are in power it will be “let bygones be bygones”, “both sides did it”, “the people expect us to seek bi-partisan solutions”.
Myabe Boehner has the right idea, what brand of whiskey does he drink? Maybe I’ll try diving into a bottle too.
Yes, a shame we only have one and a half political parties. Not to worry — soon enough there will be three-fourths of a party controlled and owned by theo-cons with their god given right to rape and pillage the planet and three-fourths of a party controlled and owned by the neoliberalcons that will do the same but more slowly.
the problem is that since the GOP won’t do anything when in power there’s so much that needs to be done that there’s no time for this type of distraction
The GOP does plenty when it’s in power. All of it the opposite of what decent and rational people would do and makes everything worse except for those the GOP is beholden to. Power seeks absolute power — but steals all the goodies for itself as well.
Is there anything you would rather they be doing, that they might actually agree to do? Absolutely not. The crazies already believe what they want to believe. Meanwhile, Obama is working on climate change, immigration, releasing prisoners from Gitmo, and god knows what else. And the rest of the world is quietly moving on. I say let them investigate Benghazi til the end of time.
“The is one cure for stupud: death. Rightfully so.” Lazurus Long