So. Hillary Clinton and the interminable investigation into
Benghazi. Anybody who could keep their cool through a day of intelligent
intense grilling deserves a big round of applause.
This formidable woman did more than that. Hillary Clinton
held herself intact in the face of weak-minded, spiteful, silly men and
women spewing weak, spiteful vitriol and silly questions of the sewer variety.
I think that would be just as provocative as intelligent questions. At least
with the latter you can have some kind of intellectually satisfying debate.
I was gobsmacked at the stupidity
and mean-spiritedness of what came at Hillary unrelentingly. I don't even want
to call her questioners inquisitors; it would imply that they had some degree
of power. Not one of them had a smidgeon of it.
They all sulked when
they couldn't get her to take their bait or to lie about the truth, or to lose
her temper. The childishness was hard to believe. Trey Gowdy was really
something, with his oily skin and eyes that were pinpricks of rage. Almost
foaming at the mouth. And what a way to honor those who died. Using their death
as political currency, lying about the facts. Nauseating.
I'm in awe of how
Hillary kept her cool, her dignity and her presence of mind. She was courageous
and smart and knew how to pick her battles. When she did she emerged a clear
winner. But she didn't hide what she was going through emotionally and what she
went through after the attack. She cut through the crap when said "I have
spent many sleepless nights, more than any of you here, I suspect..."
This is a perfect
illustration of ‘Live by the sword, die by the sword’, the sword in this
instance being lies and absence of integrity. I shake my head in amazement and
distaste—and often horror—at the current GOP. It truly has some of the dumbest
and nastiest people in it.
They’re pathetic
strategists, pushing causes they can't win, creating a dust-storm of
untruths, spending huge tax-payers’ money in the process.
Promoting an
unpopular candidate for President, Govt. shut downs, blackmailing a President
over budget, trying to get rid of the ACA, Hillary Clinton—with Bhengazi-gate
and email-gate—and Planned Parenthood...
And, the way they
do it utterly lacks logic.
1. Nobody liked Mitt Romney, not even the guys promoting
him.
2. The party that cries ‘government overspending’ shuts
down that government, costing the taxpayer millions, making itself unpopular
with the people it needs to be able to stay in power—the voters, hallo.
3. Blackmailing a President who has the power of veto and
isn’t afraid to use it. That’s a really dumb one.
4. Saying the ACA is hugely unpopular when we have this
modern miracle process called stats, which prove that it’s popular. And being
unable to find one real instance of the damage it causes, so using actors and
having them tell lies that are easily provable as such.
5. Finding no evidence to prove their case for Benghazi-gate
or Email-gate and carrying on, then
GOP politicians revealing it’s all really about getting rid of HRC. Oops. How's that working for you, guys?
6. Creating and promoting gruesome Planned Parenthood
videos that are easily provable to be 100% fake.
7. An eleven hour grilling that elicited not one shred of evidence, because there is none, and succeeded only in making the grillers look utterly absurd, having handed their political opponent more popularity at the polls on a silver platter and ending up being the laughing stock of
the political world.
Then there’s how
much money all the GOP Presidential candidates are having to raise and spend
just to fight each other. Bush has had to fire staff and lower wages already.
Lousy strategists
indeed. And the GOP love gambling. Apart from what this neurotic behavior which amounts to an addiction says about them, they’re absolutely useless at it. Usually
the amount of damage they do with their own silliness tips the scales from
funny to worrying. But the outcome of the Benghazi hearing is just downright
hilarious.
If Hillary Clinton
hadn't been able to keep her cool, if she wasn't so totally informed about all
the intricate details, if she wasn't clear in her own mind about everything
regarding the incident, if she wasn't smarter and more honest than all of her questioners put together, if she
wasn’t innocent of what she’s being accused of, things would have turned out
differently. But she did keep her cool. She did impress everybody who has even
a modicum of active brain cells.
And she’s
innocent. She has nothing to hide. Standing ovation, Hillary Clinton, standing
ovation.
