House Benghazi Commission Ends With a Piteous Whimper

And now… nothing
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I can hardly believe I’m still writing about the Republican Party’s asinine Benghazi fake controversy, but the Trey Gowdy witch hunt commission released its “final” report (somehow I doubt this is the final anything from the right on Benghazi) and the New York Times headline says it all: House Benghazi Report Finds No New Evidence of Wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton.

They labored long and hard to find something/anything to pin on Barack Obama and/or Hillary Clinton — especially Hillary Clinton — and spent millions of dollars on idiotic hearings that revealed absolutely nothing, and now the final report is another toxic nothingburger, revealing more about Republican obsessions and misdirections and dishonesty than anything else.

Say good night, Reince.

But Donald Trump, now there’s a real commander-in-chief!

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1
gocart mozart  Jun 28, 2016 • 10:47:15am
2
Kragar  Jun 28, 2016 • 10:50:17am
3
Franklin  Jun 28, 2016 • 10:51:12am

Repost from downstairs:

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jaunte  Jun 28, 2016 • 10:52:09am

An email arrived just now from AlternateRealityVille.

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jaunte  Jun 28, 2016 • 10:52:58am

“Damning report!”

6
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 28, 2016 • 10:53:40am

Trump’s next teleprompter debacle is at 2:30 pm ET:

7
Shimshon  Jun 28, 2016 • 10:53:54am

Did the House Republican investigation fault the House Republicans for blocking increased funding for the security budget?

8
Kragar  Jun 28, 2016 • 10:55:28am

re: #5 jaunte

It certainly makes the GOP seem like a bunch of malignant assclowns

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Skip Intro  Jun 28, 2016 • 10:56:00am

I thought that Howdy Gowdy was supposed to string this out until just before the election.

I guess I’ll have to watch Fox’s completely unbiased discussion with the Republican members of this show trial tonight to get the real dope.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 28, 2016 • 10:56:08am
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FormerDirtDart  Jun 28, 2016 • 10:57:30am

On Friday Speaker Ryan will announce the establishment of the House Select Permanent Committee/Republican Caucus to Investigate Democratic Party Members…
///

12
Charles Johnson  Jun 28, 2016 • 10:57:34am
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 28, 2016 • 10:58:07am

re: #9 Skip Intro

I thought that Howdy Gowdy was supposed to string this out until just before the election.

I guess I’ll have to watch Fox’s completely unbiased discussion with the Republican members of this show trial tonight to get the real dope.

If they’d found anything they could possibly spin as bad, they would have waited till just before the election. Now they want everybody to forget about it by then.

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Skip Intro  Jun 28, 2016 • 10:58:32am

re: #6 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump’s next teleprompter debacle is at 2:30 pm ET:

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That’s when he’s supposed to show up. Add an hour to be safe.

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Sir John Barron  Jun 28, 2016 • 10:58:59am

re: #5 jaunte

“Damning report!”

Why didn’t we just send anyone, anything, regardless of whether it was well planned or whether it would put more Americans at risk??!??!??!

16
Charles Johnson  Jun 28, 2016 • 10:59:45am

All they need to complete the picture is some tattooed hillbillies in tanktops sitting on the garbage playing banjos.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:00:14am
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jaunte  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:00:24am

Watch the Republicans who comment on this; there won’t be any strong practical recommendations on how to address the problem of exposed diplomatic missions going forward.
The whole point is to look backward and blame Clinton, and that’s the story they’ll stick to.

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Sir John Barron  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:00:28am

re: #11 FormerDirtDart

On Friday Speaker Ryan will announce the establishment of the House Select Permanent Committee/Republican Caucus to Investigate Democratic Party Members…
///

Why doesn’t he investigate Benghazi? No one’s done that yet.

//

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:01:03am
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Kragar  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:03:20am

re: #16 Charles Johnson

They cancelled. Didn’t want to be associated with Trump.

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lawhawk  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:03:56am

re: #16 Charles Johnson

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:05:11am

2. Trump is devoting arguably his biggest econ policy speech of the campaign so far to trade, manufacturing and Made in America.
3. As many of us in the econosphere have been noting for a long time, his views on the subject are a marked departure from GOP doctrine.
4. He explicitly now harkens back to a Good Old Days of tariffs and ‘protective policy’ on trade.
5. He slams Bill Clinton on NAFTA and China/WTO, and HRC on other trade fronts.
6. Most of this speech could have been given by Bernie Sanders.
7. If Bernie had given the speech, as a Dem nominee, vs. any of the recent GOP nominees save Trump, the RNC would have blasted him for it.
8. Trump’s tax plan is a throw-away line in this speech.
9. This is *exactly* what a lot of conservative wonks warned would happen, a year ago: washingtonpost.com…
10. Some of those wonks now support Trump, either downplaying or adopting his trade stances.
11. This shift is a sea change for the Republican Party and a big blow to the Chamber crowd.
12. In sum: Trump is leaning into economic populism, not out of it, and the question is whether he pulls the GOP, as a party, along with him

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KGxvi  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:05:32am

re: #16 Charles Johnson

All they need to complete the picture is some tattooed hillbillies in tanktops sitting on the garbage playing banjos.

Nah, they’re going to set that garbage on fire.

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Franklin  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:05:40am

Good thread (still ongoing) about the Benghazi Boogaloo timeline:

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Skip Intro  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:09:01am

re: #22 lawhawk

The represent all of the shredded promises that Donald Trump has made over the decades.

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Sir John Barron  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:09:04am

re: #23 FormerDirtDart

The GOP must be so excited.

/

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CuriousLurker  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:09:58am

So nearly two full minutes of Gowdy’s herpty derp translates into: “We’ve got nothing.”

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lawhawk  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:10:43am

re: #26 Skip Intro

The represent all of the shredded promises that Donald Trump has made over the decades.

For just his charitable donation promises.

You’d need a separate state to cover shredded promises relating to construction and real estate contracts. Plus all of NJ to cover the casino operations.

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Teukka  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:10:47am

re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Looks like someone bought the cheapest email address list possible XD

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jaunte  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:11:58am

re: #28 CuriousLurker

Marines Changed Clothes!

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Sir John Barron  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:12:28am

re: #28 CuriousLurker

So nearly two full minutes of Gowdy’s herpty derp translates into: “We’ve got nothing.”

READ ALL 800 PAGES OF REPORT!!!!!!!!!11

/

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Kragar  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:13:10am

re: #31 jaunte

What? I need context here.

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teleskiguy  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:13:21am

Reince: IT AIN’T DEAD YET!

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Kragar  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:13:28am
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lawhawk  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:13:34am

The GOPers/conservatives are gnashing their teeth at all this because Trump’s regurgitating nonsense, including claiming he’ll do stuff that we already do:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:14:04am
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Lidane  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:14:53am

The 9/11 Commission report clocks in at around 600 pages.

The House GOP report on Benghazi is 800 pages.

Let that sink in a while.

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jaunte  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:14:58am

re: #33 Kragar

One of the new revelations in the report: marines potentially tasked with a rescue mission changed in and out of uniform because of conflicting orders from Dept. of State about diplomatic sensitivities.

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Alephnaught  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:15:18am

Now back in Scotland, and on the bus back to Glasgow. En route, we pass a certain place…

Instagram

Welcome back to Scotland! #photo #iphoneography
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:17:02am

Apparently an homage to the plight of the persecuted white male…

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lawhawk  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:17:26am

re: #35 Kragar

He’s really gunning for the VP slot so he can get his 2012 presidential race debts paid off.

The deadbeat needs a new gig, so he’s glomming on to the biggest deadbeat in the history of presidential politics - Trump.

If these two are the ticket, so ends the whole family values GOP, unless family values means cheating repeatedly on your spouse for a younger, prettier version. Preferably a version that is healthier (as Newt dumped his first wife as she was dealing with various medical ailments, which shows he didn’t care much for marriage vows to be there in sickness and in health).

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Shimshon  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:18:02am

re: #38 Lidane

The 9/11 Commission report clocks in at around 600 pages.

The House GOP report on Benghazi is 800 pages.

Let that sink in a while.

I let it sink in too long and it was stinking up my bathroom. I had to flush.

44
jaunte  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:18:15am

re: #41 Backwoods_Sleuth

Spinal Tap: the Stonehenge scene.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:19:16am
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CuriousLurker  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:19:32am

re: #42 lawhawk

Yeah, they’d have like what—7 or 8 spouses between them?

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lawhawk  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:21:37am

re: #46 CuriousLurker

Think it’s 6… 3 each, not that I’m counting (or care - beyond the sheer hypocrisy of these people passing judgment on others for their own infidelities).

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lawhawk  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:21:41am
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Kragar  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:23:49am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:25:18am

Trump fans really are stupid.

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blueraven  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:25:39am

Good grief, Trump is awful with the teleprompter.

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jaunte  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:27:21am

re: #51 blueraven

Good grief, Trump is awful with the teleprompter.

In fact, with any noun.

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Kragar  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:27:46am
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Frankie Five Angels  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:27:50am

That garbage background is going to be Trump’s Dukakis moment.

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jaunte  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:29:01am
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blueraven  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:29:22am

Trump is talking about the need for domestic manufacturing while he stands there wearing his Trump brand clothing made in China, Mexico, etc…

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:29:37am
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makeitstop  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:29:57am

re: #51 blueraven

Good grief, Trump is awful with the teleprompter.

Anybody got a link? I’m in the mood to watch a tire fire today.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:30:03am

Trump can’t resist ad libbing.

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makeitstop  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:30:36am

re: #56 blueraven

Trump is talking about the need for domestic manufacturing while he stands there wearing his Trump brand clothing made in China, Mexico, etc…

Trump brand? He wouldn’t wear that inferior trash!

/only kinda

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FormerDirtDart  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:30:51am

re: #50 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump fans really are stupid.

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:31:06am

Kinda want to change my nic to “Intemperate Spam.”

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Kryptik  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:31:28am

re: #57 Aunty Entity Dragon

He needs to start moving up the alphabet if he wants any hope. Maybe go after Issa for a change.

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lawhawk  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:31:38am

So, tariffs and protectionism, which will end up costing everyone more? Or just more baffling BS that will not change fact that businesses (like his own) opted to not use US manufactured goods like steel in building their buildings (like the Trump Towers, which minimized steel use in favor of concrete) or manufacturers, like Trump’s own clothing line.

The same people who complain about the cost of infrastructure and then demand US steel be used, run into the same issue - that domestic production is limited, and it costs more than steel produced overseas from scrap (where it’s made in places like China or India, which have lower environmental standards, and lower production costs).

Heck, this came up during WTC construction too - steel was fabricated overseas in Luxembourg because there wasn’t any domestic manufacturer (or anywhere else in the world) who could do the work. Additional work was then done in VA before coming up to NY for installation.

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Great White Snark  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:32:16am

Unconfirmed video, very disturbing if true

littlegreenfootballs.com

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:32:37am

re: #50 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump fans really are stupid.

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Um…compressed trash is granite??

Now, I may be a simple country geology grad, but I am pretty sure that felsic intrusive igneous rocks do not have the same morphology, chemical composition or originating process as a cube of recycled metals.

Just my guess.

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lawhawk  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:33:08am

Wiped out. Like totally.

Except it hasn’t. Undermined. Depleted? But domestic politics has done as much, if not more, particularly through tax policies of burden shifting.

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Timothy Watson  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:33:19am

re: #64 lawhawk

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So, tariffs and protectionism, which will end up costing everyone more? Or just more baffling BS that will not change fact that businesses (like his own) opted to not use US manufactured goods like steel in building their buildings (like the Trump Towers, which minimized steel use in favor of concrete) or manufacturers, like Trump’s own clothing line.

The same people who complain about the cost of infrastructure and then demand US steel be used, run into the same issue - that domestic production is limited, and it costs more than steel produced overseas from scrap (where it’s made in places like China or India, which have lower environmental standards, and lower production costs).

Heck, this came up during WTC construction too - steel was fabricated overseas in Luxembourg because there wasn’t any domestic manufacturer (or anywhere else in the world) who could do the work. Additional work was then done in VA before coming up to NY for installation.

The same thing that the Bush administration tried to do until Europe threaten to put penalties on American citrus?

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Kragar  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:33:44am
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CuriousLurker  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:37:26am

I’m glad some of you are willing to listen for the rest of us. As with Palin, I can’t stomach hearing or watching him—as it is, I’m annoyed at having to see his bloated, wrinkled orange face with those wormy lips all over the place every day. Mitt Romney was annoying, but he was pleasant enough to look at and could at least string together a grammatically correct, intelligible sentence (even if he lied & flip-flopped all the time).

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KGxvi  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:37:51am

re: #64 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

So, tariffs and protectionism, which will end up costing everyone more? Or just more baffling BS that will not change fact that businesses (like his own) opted to not use US manufactured goods like steel in building their buildings (like the Trump Towers, which minimized steel use in favor of concrete) or manufacturers, like Trump’s own clothing line.

The same people who complain about the cost of infrastructure and then demand US steel be used, run into the same issue - that domestic production is limited, and it costs more than steel produced overseas from scrap (where it’s made in places like China or India, which have lower environmental standards, and lower production costs).

Heck, this came up during WTC construction too - steel was fabricated overseas in Luxembourg because there wasn’t any domestic manufacturer (or anywhere else in the world) who could do the work. Additional work was then done in VA before coming up to NY for installation.

“American?” To quote the great Inigo Montoya:

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Timothy Watson  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:38:14am

re: #69 Kragar

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He can proclaim a Continental System like Napoleon or an maybe an autarky.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jun 28, 2016 • 11:44:29am

re: #69 Kragar

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“Autarchia” was a big thing with Mussolini, too. Il Duce being channeled by Ill Douche.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Jun 28, 2016 • 12:03:10pm

re: #64 lawhawk

The same people who complain about the cost of infrastructure and then demand US steel be used, run into the same issue - that domestic production is limited, and it costs more than steel produced overseas from scrap (where it’s made in places like China or India, which have lower environmental standards, and lower production costs).

That is where we have been shooting ourselves in the foot with globalization. Heck, let them compete on wages, that is our impetus to work smarter and be more productive. But if we let them undercut us on environmental and worker safety issues, then we are not only putting our own people out of work, we are giving overseas producers no incentive to clean up their act.

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Nyet  Jun 28, 2016 • 12:48:31pm

If even the Republican sociopaths couldn’t find anything, Clinton is as innocent as an angel on this issue.

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Rocky-in-Connecticut  Jun 28, 2016 • 4:18:04pm

As innocent as Reagan “allowing” 240 US Marines to be blown up…then doing absolutely NOTHING about it. In other words, a total waste of taxpayer money, cynically spent on pure politics.


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