What’s Happening Now

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I’m not watching Hillary Clinton’s testimony in front of the Benghazi! committee, but Josh Marshall is watching it closely and cataloging the derp. Apparently Rep. Susan Brooks (R-IN) pulled ” the most moronic thing I’ve seen in the long history of moronic congressional committee stunts,” according to J.M. What did she do?

According to the New York Times,

In the first demonstration of political theater, Representative Susan W. Brooks, Republican of Indiana, presented Mrs. Clinton with two giant stacks of her emails as she launched into a round of questions about her attention to the situation in Benghazi.

One pile, from 2011, had nearly 800 emails. The other, from the following year, had 67. Mrs. Brooks suggested that the difference represented a lack of interest in what was happening there at the time Ambassador Stevens was killed.

Mrs. Clinton responded by saying the job of secretary of state was not conducted entirely by email.

“I did not do the vast majority of my work by email,” she said, explaining that she had private meetings and secure phone calls with aides. “I don’t want you to have a mistaken impression about what I did and how I did it.”

Yes, I’d say that qualifies as derp. Now let’s go to the video —

In other news, it appears Paul Ryan may be running for the Speaker position after all.

12 thoughts on “What’s Happening Now”

  1. “Susan Brooks (R-IN)”

    Good lord another idiot from my home state:(……. That stunt will make her a wing-nut media darling for at least a week! You know how the dimwittedteabaggers love those visual aids!

  3. “Trey Gowdy looks like that kid on The Simpsons”

    He is an odd looking fella, right out of 1950’s sci-fi central casting!

  5. Trey looks like that (inbred?) kid who played the banjo in “Deliverance .

    Though I suspect that kid was smarter than Trey, and ended up a Senator from a Red State – Jeff Sessions, maybe…

  6. I see that Trey was all groomed up for today’s event. He combed his hair to a nice point and he was bright eyed. He must of found his opportunity to shine. Mamma Gowdy would be proud of her boy. Normally his clothes are all wrinkled and he looks like he should grace his face with a razor. I can’t tell if he’s coming off a bender or he’s going for the Colombo look to enhance his image as a deceptively sly investigator
    I only saw the first round of questioning, but I was very impressed with Hillary’s testimony. She was sharp and exhibited a clear understanding of what she was talking about. She never once fumbled in answering the questions presented to her or groped for words to explain herself.
    She certainly elevated herself in my opinion of her.

  8. Somehow I get the feeling that if Amb. Stevens had Hillary’s personal email and or address, phone number they would be attacking her for being too close personally to her employees so she obviously is responsible for murdering him!

  9. I kinda think the special super duper select committee to investigate Benghazi took a hit below the waterline. The cat’s out of the bag! Seems Hillary has been identified and certified as the sole purpose for the investigating committee’s existence.
    If today’s hearing was their moment in the sun to take down Hillary they failed miserably and all they are left with now is the problem of putting a good face on a bad situation. I think it’s a safe assumption to say that they’ve shot their wad and they have no hopes of advancing their initial objective. That is of course if their initial objective was to hoodwink an audience greater than their already established true believer base.
    Rep. Adam Schiff did an excellent job pointing out the core theory idea used as a prosecuting tool. Although Gowdy countered that they were not prosecuting Hillary the core theory theme served to illustrate how all the focus of the questioning was directed toward implications that Hillary was derelict in her duty as Secretary of State. The committee affirmed Kevin McCarthy’s assertion that their purpose was all about destroying Hillary
    To my mind and I’m sure to the minds of many others, the Repugs on the committee betrayed their motives by the ferocity and abject vacuousness of their questioning. They gave themselves away.

    With Gowdy they shouldn’t of sent a boy to do a man’s job! The little pointy head twerp blew his big opportunity. Gowdy kinda brings me back to High School…”Just because you’ve got a pointy head doesn’t mean you’re sharp”.

  12. One thing I have to say about Hillary, she’s got stamina and fortitude. I hope she went home after that and slept for about 12 hours.

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