And hey!
Elections have consequences: “House Republicans have decided the select committee to investigate the Benghazi terror attack will include seven Republicans and five Democrats, according to two senior House GOP leadership aides.” This is in stark contrast to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s eyebrow-raising demand that Democrats be given equal membership on said committee: it’s an open question whether Pelosi will appoint anybody at all at this point. Given her generally poor decision-making since 2009, I’m going to guess that she’ll boycott the entire thing out of pique until it becomes clear that playing even a bad hand on this still beats playing no hand at all.
And when I say that elections have consequences, I am not snarking – well, I’m not just snarking. I’m also quoting select committee chair Trey Gowdy (via Hot Air):
Trey Gowdy: …I can tell you this. It is not going to be evenly constituted and when she was Speaker Pelosi, she certainly showed no interests in having an equal number of Republicans and Democrats.
We’re in the majority. That may or may not be the case after November but we’re in the majority right now and we’re in the majority for a reason. And I just find it interesting that people’s ability to do math changes when they go from being the Speaker to the Minority Leader.
Fox News’ Martha MacCallum: So what, tell me what composition you see on this select committee? What would you like it to be?
Gowdy: Well, the Speaker is going to decide that. Something in the 10-7 range or like what we have with other committees now. Every committee of Congress is constituted with more Republicans than Democrats because there are more Republicans than Democrats. And i hasten to add, every committee in the Senate is constituted with more Democrats than Republicans. I mean there are consequences to elections.
Bolding mine. Also: Trey Gowdy was a prosecutor before he went to Congress. If that didn’t make your ears pick up, it should have. He’s talking depositions! – ooh, depositions. Just the word is fraught with possibilities…
Moe Lane (crosspost)
Buys year supply of popcorn….
Now we just need the Select Committees on Fast and Furious and the IRS corruption. Of course, we won’t get those, because in those cases the victims weren’t Boehner’s people, ie beltway insiders. They were folks south of the border, or those horrid tea party folks.
Umm, Skip?
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Elections have consequences, 2014 is an election year, and Team Obama’s ability to keep buried evidence buried is .. facing significant headwinds due to the fact that 2016 is also an election year and not every low-level apparatchik can expect ol’ Barry to be loyal and sign a pardon.
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Mew
I figure that Obama’s pardon list will be lucky to break double digits.
Agreed. The man does not appear to grasp the concept of loyalty as a two-way thing.
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Mew
You honestly think that Boehner has any interest in doing anything that will actually move things forward on either FnF or the IRS scandals? He wants them to go away, to stop distracting him from important things like amnesty.
Boehner has any interest in? No.
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Boehner has an active interest in suppressing? Yes.
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Boehner has the stones and the skill to *keep* suppressing? … No.
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Mew