Hillary Clinton’s day-long grilling on Benghazi was a weird composite of farewell testimonials by her own party members and hostile Comedy Central roast by Republican pygmies.
After
blocking the nomination of Susan Rice as her successor, John McCain and his cronies
at one point reduced Clinton to tears with their carping, only to be outdone by
Colorado Sen. Ron Johnson who kept badgering the Secretary of State as she
raised her voice:
"With
all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans," she said,
raising her voice at Johnson, who continued to interrupt her. "Was it
because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk last night who
decided to kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make? It
is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it
from ever happening again, Senator."
Johnson
capped the day by accusing Clinton of “theatrics,” telling a reporter afterward
that “she just decided before she was going to describe emotionally the four
dead Americans, the heroes, and use that as her trump card to get out of the
questions.”
Rand Paul harrumphed that as President he would have “fired” Clinton for her
Benghazi failure which, in view of today’s approval ratings, may have been the
sickest joke of all.
For
sane observers, her day in the dock was a masterful demonstration of command,
competence and deftness in deflecting attacks on what started out to be an election
ploy against Obama last fall and has morphed into a preemptive strike against a
possible Clinton candidacy in 2016.
In
other news, the Pentagon announced that it was lifting the ban on women in combat. Hillary Clinton spent the day demonstrating that at least one of them
was up for anything that hostile forces can aim their way.
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