Less Budget Money for Libya Embassy: Just Start Drinking Now, America (Charles Pierce)

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Over the last few days, as the Passion Of Big Chicken has riveted the Green Rooms, the never-really-dormant Benghazi, Benghazi!, BENGHAZI! wingnut conjuring spell has gotten itself a workout from every Republican spokescritter from Rudy 9/11 to obvious anagram Reince Priebus. You may also recall that Congress spent many full days engaged in what Darrell Issa referred to as an investigation over what happened when a U.S. consulate was overrun and American personnel killed. Issa concluded that, as regards the security of the compound, the president and Hillary Clinton failed the country by failing to swing into the compound on ropes with knives in their teeth and their faces painted blue.

So, anyway, all that happened. Yesterday, the Congress laid out the budget proposal that resulted from the Murray-Ryan bipartisan glory train. Naturally, because of The Deficit that is coming to strangle our grandchildren in their beds, sacrifices had to be made.

Despite the concern over security after the 2012 attack on the United States Mission in Benghazi, Libya, the spending bill earmarks less to embassy security, construction and maintenance than it allotted for fiscal 2013 - $2.67 billion, down by $224 million.

That isn't a line-item. It's a punchline.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/less-budget-money-for-libya-embassy-011414