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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Benghazi! The Musical': Dancing, Shouting, Not Much Plot
http://prospect.org/article/benghazi-musical-dancing-shouting-not-much-plot'Benghazi! The Musical': Dancing, Shouting, Not Much Plot
Paul Waldman
May 5, 2014
It's kind of like Oklahoma!, only rather more grim.
If Republicans in Congress really want to get Americans to pay attention to the Benghazi scandalette, they're going to have to do some creative thinking. Since hearings and periodic expressions of outrage haven't worked so far, maybe a musical would do the trick. A soaring ballad or two, some hopping dance numbers, maybe a pair of star-crossed lovers. Naturally, it would be called Benghazi!, kind of like Oklahoma!, only rather more grim.
But in the meantime, they're going to go with a select committee to investigate the matter, as House Speaker John Boehner announced on Friday. One does wonder whether they think that if they just do some more investigating, they'll uncover the real crime. No one knows what it is yet, but just you wait.
Or, as is far more likely, they're just hoping to create a lot of bad news days for the administration, where the whiff of "scandal" surrounds the White House regardless of whether any malfeasance is actually uncovered. And could the fact that Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State at the time, the same Hillary Clinton who will probably be running for president starting very soon, have anything to do with it? Perish the thought.
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Watergate gave us the expression, "It's not the crime, it's the cover-up," but it's really both. Only when it comes to Benghazi, we have neither. There was a bureaucracy that may not have done enough to secure our missions overseas, a consulate that wasn't prepared for violence that might have been foreseen, and a military without the ability to respond quickly enough when it happened. You can call it an unavoidable tragedy or a monumental screw-up. But if you're looking for crimes committed at the highest levels of the administration, you're going to be looking for a long time.
But as far as Republicans are concerned, you don't need actual malfeasance, or evidence of an actual cover-up. As long as you have lots of subpoenas, and cameras to catch all the pounding of tables and expressions of outrage, you have all you need to put on a show.
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'Benghazi! The Musical': Dancing, Shouting, Not Much Plot (Original Post)
babylonsister
May 2014
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yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)1. The shame is the 4 dead
The Republicans are using them for their own gain and that is sick.
lame54
(35,321 posts)2. Kind of like Stomp where repugs pound on anything they can find...
but with no rhythm whatsoever