House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who has made it official that he’d like to take over for John Boehner as Speaker of the House when he resigns, got some Democratic blood boiling in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity when he tied Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers to the Select Committee on Benghazi.
“Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right?” he told Hannity. “But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping. Why? Because she’s untrustable.”
Democrats (or at least those supporting Clinton for president) were outraged at McCarthy’s “admission” that the whole Benghazi committee was just a tool to damage Clinton’s spotless reputation for being trustworthy and completely forthcoming. Sen. Barbara Boxer, in fact, has used McCarthy’s quote to demand that the Benghazi committee be disbanded.
Read my letter to @SpeakerBoehner urging him to disband the politically motivated #Benghazi Select Committee. http://t.co/wEHfoTVVXx
— Sen. Barbara Boxer (@SenatorBoxer) September 30, 2015
Boxer’s letter gets right to the point; here’s the essential bit:
When we raise our right hand and are sworn into office, we pledge to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic – not to use our official positions to bring down a political opponent.
Now we know from an interview with Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy that the Benghazi Select Committee had everything to do with bringing down Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers. Here is the quote from Mr. McCarthy:
“Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping.”
Every American should be outraged by this politically motivated sham. It is time to disband this committee, which is clearly not focused on a tragedy but on a political smear campaign. I believe the Committee is an abuse of taxpayer funds.
.@GOPLeader McCarthy’s comments prove that the #Benghazi Committee is a political smear campaign & an abuse of taxpayer funds.
— Sen. Barbara Boxer (@SenatorBoxer) September 30, 2015
If Boxer really wants to shut down the Benghazi committee, why doesn’t she just remind Boehner that we already tracked down the filmmaker behind that offensive anti-Muslim video and tossed him in jail, just as Clinton promised the families of those killed in that spontaneous attack?
https://twitter.com/TimBiden/status/649236493916110848
@SenatorBoxer The tragedy was Hillary Clinton's criminal incompetence.
— Julia (@TurtledoveJB) September 30, 2015
@SenatorBoxer @missliberties With all due respect Senator; Do you realize why those people died?
— Bingle (@TheBingle) September 30, 2015
@SenatorBoxer I thought Benghazi was about a protest over a video… Oh wait….
— The OC (@RealClearOC) September 30, 2015
@SenatorBoxer No, it's about bullshitting the American public and not protecting our citizens overseas working for us. #keeptrying
— Rich Lezcano (@RichLezcano) September 30, 2015
If it weren't for Hillary, there wouldn't have been a Benghazi tragedy. @SenatorBoxer
— Wes Stephens (@RockyTop_VA) September 30, 2015
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