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Originally posted by: jatki99
Man did McCarthy ever make a Biden Gaffe or what? The Clinton team and the Dem.'s are running with that like a cat in heat, and it won't stop but by the time they do, it will be drilled into every soccer mom, housewife, gym rat and dimwit's head that it's nothing but a Rep attack on poor Hillary. And it'll work. I watched the first one and the Dems never mentioned a word about a partisan attack directed at Hillary. Now after MacCarthy's huge gaffe, that's all it is.
See what the second half brings.
Representative Kevin McCarthy, 29 September, 2015:
"Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping. Why? Because she's untrustable. But no one would have known any of that had happened, had we not fought."
DonDiego sees a recitation of facts, . . . not a gaffe.
Over the objections of Democrats and others the Republicans established a Special Committee to investigate the unfortunate incidents in Behghazi to try to find out why this failure to protect the US Ambassador to Libya was permitted by those in charge at the State Department. [This is a fact.]
Ms. Clinton's poll numbers related to the 2016 Presidential Election have dropped from over 60% to the mid-40s%; Senator Sanders poll numbers have concurrently risen from 5% to the mid-20s%. [This is a fact.]
One may surmise that the formation and actions of the Special Committee have had an effect on the electoral polls. i.e.Representative McCarthy may be correct that the Committee's inquiry has indicated that Ms. Clinton is "untreatable".
But it is not a demonstrable fact that formation of the Special Committee was designed explicitly or solely to damage Ms. Clinton's prospects.
It would be nice to know who is responsible for the absence of security at the State Department ambassadorial facilities.
And who was behind the State Department lies that the "demonstration" was the result of an anti-Islamist propaganda film.
And lots of other inconsistencies.
Like today, poor old DonDiego learned that Sidney Blumenthal, a long-time confidant to Ms.Clinton, who was in Libya representing business associates with interests in Libya at the time of the unpleasantness, had significantly better access to then-Secretary Clinton than did the Libyan Ambassador.
That's interesting.