Arming a bunch of cowards and weaklings won’t do much. The Left trained their politicians from scratch, from the bottom up. The GOP would need the same kind of purging.

They dealt with her as if she was someone who could actually feel remorse or shame, when that particular emotion was excised out of her back in her Wellseley days.

She knows she is untouchable and simply doesn’t care and spent the hearing looking like she was about to yawn in the faces of the hayseeds trying to take her down.

I think the Repubs are barking up the wrong tree on this one. The real crime is the intentional violations of the Official Secrets Acts, and her premeditated concealment of the record of her time in office.

Chances of the Obama Justice Department acting on those felonies? Zero to none.

The crowing on the left is always something to behold, but NYT’s Maureen Dowd’s headline celebration of Emperess Palpatine was the best: “The Empire Strikes Back”.

I have no problem imagining that bloodless machine calling in an air strike on a Republican “District Twelve” like President Snow did in the Hunger Games.

The Ruling Class has their Empress Palpatine.

God help us all.

Contrast with the false/BDS narrative of the Iraq mission is the basic justification and excuse – the linchpin – for Obama’s whole ME policy, including with Libya, Iran, Syria, and of course, Iraq.

So one, irrespective of the (de)merits of Obama’s Libya policy, it was presented from the outset as a purposeful contrast to the false/BDS narrative of the Iraq mission. Any not-Iraq ME policy is justified on that basis. If the Iraq mission is widely accepted as a polar wrong and failure, then anything wrong with the not-Iraq Libya policy has built-in mitigation.

Following from that premise, many, many more Americans died in Iraq than Libya. If the Iraq mission was wrong and a failure, the logic then is even if mistakes were made, the Benghazi killings are at worst the lower cost of the lesser of two evils in the not-Iraq Libya policy. They’re viewed as a tragedy that at least avoided the worse alternative.

Following from that logic, if at worst, a handful of Americans died in Benghazi due to mistakes that were made from a not-Iraq Libya policy justified by its contrast to the Iraq policy from which thousands of Americans died, then it’s simple to sell that the GOP that’s held responsible for the Iraq mission is making an obscene political attack on Clinton with a shocking lack of self-awareness.

In order to effectively criticize Obama’s ME policy generally and set the necessary narrative frame for public judgement of the Benghazi controversy specifically, it’s necessary to pull out the linchpin. The GOP and Right must set the record straight on the Iraq mission and kill the false/BDS narrative for the zeitgeist, and discredit promoters of the false/BDS narrative.

Physicsguy,

See my comments upthread and above.

The tack you want the GOP to take with the Benghazi controversy is effective depending on Right activists constructing the practical preconditions and rhetorical premises to set the stage with the necessary narrative frame for the zeitgeist.

Simply, solving your frustration with the GOP on this issue requires the Right to arm the GOP like the Left arms the Democrats to at least level the playing field. Setting the stage is part of the competition. Without the Right collectively doing their part as a competitive Marxist-method social activist movement first, the GOP cannot effectively do what you want.

It was a perfect opportunity to call her out, but no one had the guts to do it. Where are our Sam Ervin’s and Winston Churchills?