By Frank Salvato.
With the announcement that House Speaker John Boehner finally decided to seat a special House committee to investigate the assassination of a US ambassador and his security contingent, Senate Majority Leader (and former boxer) Harry Reid (D-NV), said:
“Republicans are showing yet again that they have nothing to offer the middle class. Republicans care more about defending billionaires like the Koch brothers and trying to rekindle debunked right-wing conspiracy theories than raising the minimum wage or ensuring women receive equal pay for equal work.
“There have already been multiple investigations into this issue and an independent Accountability Review Board is mandated under current law. For Republicans to waste the American people’s time and money staging a partisan political circus instead of focusing on the middle class is simply a bad decision. While Republicans try to gin up yet another political food fight, Senate Democrats will remain focused on fostering economic growth for all hard-working Americans.”
Several thoughts come to mind after reading Mr. Reid’s official statement.
First, it is almost sickening that Mr. Reid thinks so little of the American people that he would think us incapable of realizing that the “multiple investigations” that have taken place have been almost 100 percent weighted in favor of a positive outcome for the Obama Administration. Anyone with eyes and a brain has already deduced that the Obama Administration investigates and/or prosecutes nothing that could adversely affect it or the Progressive Left. From the non-prosecution of the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation, to the non-investigation of: a) those responsible for using the IRS as a weapon against Conservative Americans; b) those responsible for using the DoJ as a spy apparatus targeting the free media; those responsible at the DoJ for Fast & Furious, the Obama Administration can be counted on to provide justice to no one.
Second, the Koch Brothers? Honestly? We are supposed to believe that the Koch Brothers were somehow to blame for the assassination – the slaughter – of American officials in Libya? Mr. Reid, your vendetta against the Koch Brothers for exercising their free speech rights is laughable if not tyrannical. Two words for you that should find you embarrassed at your attacks on the big money brothers trying to right the imbalance Progressives have affected on free speech: George Soros.
And three. Have you notice how incredibly caustic the touchy-feely, inclusive, tolerant Progressive Left gets whenever you question them? Isn’t it incredible that the same people who bloviate about dialogue about fairness and justice couldn’t give a damn about fairness and justice for the parents and families of those slaughtered and dragged through the streets of Benghazi? Challenge their idea of “mission accomplished” and watch out for the vicious, big-money fueled smear that is set to come your way. Honestly, has a bigger assembly of frauds ever captured power anywhere at any time?
To wit, Nancy Pelosi, responding to the announcement of the special investigative committee, said,
“What I will say is, again, diversion, subterfuge: Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi. Why aren’t we talking about something else?”
Is it diversion to want answers to the assassination of a US ambassador when newly revealed evidence points to proof of a cover-up emanating directly from the White House; evidence of a cover-up of an event that led to peoples’ murders? Is it subterfuge to point out that the President and his closest advisers tolerate the assassination of a US ambassador strictly for political purposes? By Ms. Pelosi’s standards, Watergate shouldn’t have been questioned, yet charges of impeachment were prepared…and no one died in Watergate.
The seating of this investigative body is absolutely the right thing to do. Those refusing to cooperate, let alone champion, the effort should be removed from office at the next election and kept from public office – all the way down to dog catcher – for the remainder of their pathetic, partisan, lives.
As for Reid and Pelosi, they stand as proof positive that the Framers and Founders were right when they warned us against political faction in government. The faction of the Progressive Left doesn’t give a damnabout slaughtered Americans. They don’t give a tinker’s cuss about fairness and justice, inclusion and dialogue. They only care about power and money. The Progressive Leftists currently in control of government epitomize greed and narcissism.
And that ain’t “diversion” or “subterfuge.”
