All the kids in the marketplace say
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Walk like an Egyptian
Ay oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh
Walk like an Egyptian
Remember that song from 1885? Like old soldiers and all hits, it's faded slowly away. The Bangles however are still around despite some split-ups and re-unifications. You never know what's going to last. You never know what's going to persist ad nauseam either, but things that started out nauseating tend to go on nauseating us for a long time.
Fox turned their back on a recent press conference about what's arguably the big story and the big worry of the day, the Russian attempt to invade and annex Ukraine, tanks, bombers, fighter jets and helicopters and more boots on the ground every day, but they weren't doing the Benghazi! which according to Fox is BREAKING NEWS! Even CNN cut away from the really important 24 hour coverage of the absence of anything new about the missing airplane, because really, anything that might lead to World War Three should at least get passing notice before we get back to interpret the total lack of anything new in an old case. But not Fox
As TBogg says on Raw Story: When all you've got is #Benghazi, everything looks like #Benghazi. Also #BENGHAZI! No matter how many 'select committees' convene and adjourn with less to show for the time and effort and money than they came up with during the Whitewater debacle, the need for another bogus scandal requires yet another committee and there's a call for one from yet another "conservative" sabotage group saying that there are now e-mails suggesting that the administration was concerned with its image. After all, defending against dishonest and relentless attacks by the culpable party is admission of something isn't it? And besides, anything said often enough becomes true no matter how ridiculous or dishonest. Ask Vladimir Putin, the Russian dictator Fox news constantly praises as the leader Obama should emulate. Even if Putin has brought on a nuclear apocalypse by 2016, we can expect to be doing the Benghazi! Boogie, because, as the man says -- it's all they've got at this point since none of their dire and hysterical predictions has proved out.
You know it's bad when even a partisan like Lindsay Graham is worried it will all backfire at the midterms. “If we’re playing politics with Benghazi, we’ll get burned,” Said Graham on “Face the Nation.” yesterday, but he may have more faith in the American People or at least fear of their honesty and intelligence than I do. My vision is apocalyptic: the world engulfed in war and chaos while the Right wing does the Benghazi boogie -- and a poor, dirty, ignorant and superstitious populace?
Ay oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh
Walks like a Republican
GOP blows secrets and risks lives in document dump ahead of debate
ReplyDelete“ House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) compromised the identities of several Libyans working with the U.S. government and placed their lives in danger when he released reams of State Department communications Friday.”
This time Darrel Issa has gone too far:
“Issa didn't bother to redact the names of Libyan civilians and local leaders mentioned in the cables, and just as with the WikiLeaks dump of State Department cables last year, the administration says that Issa has done damage to U.S. efforts to work with those Libyans and exposed them to physical danger from the very groups that had an interest in attacking the U.S. consulate”
If I am in a lather over this Benghazi investigation, it is because Darrel Issa and the entire Republican establishment has a history of putting party before country with unfettered recklessness – demonstrating a willingness to shoot at anything just to build a straw man case against Obama, or Hlilary Clinton, or John Kerry – or any scapegoat de jour they can find.
This is standard GOP operating procedure: Consider the case of Valerie Plame, the CIA operative whose cover was blown just because her husband exposed one of the deceptions employed by the Bush/Cheney Administration to justify a bogus war. In 2006, Speaker Pelosi was wrong in taking impeachment off the table.
If anyone should be investigated over Benghazi, it should Darrel Issa for abusing his authority as House Oversight Committee Chairman and putting American intelligence assets at risk. Frankly, charges of treason against Issa would be a bonus. And serve as a warning to all aspiring GOP demagogues and panderers.
I keep waiting for it to backfire -- for the public to recoil in revulsion and disgust. But I'm getting old and I may not live that long. It's really hard to be anything like optimistic and whether or not the world will end with a whimper I'm quite sure American Democracy, if not the USA itself will end with a Benghazi! Benghazi!
ReplyDeleteI won't comment on Issa though. It's really not nice to expose more sensitive readers to the language that would demand.