Benghazi Hearings: For The Courage Impaired

“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.” ~Abraham Lincoln 

If you were waiting with bated breath for the Benghazi hearings on Capital Hill for truth to be revealed … you’re about to pass out…

The House and Senate Hearings were a grandiose display of the spinelessness of the former Grand Old Party.

The revolting display of fawning fools from the GOP was enough to be a mass emetic! With the exception of Sen. Rand Paul … and Senators Johnson and McCain (in a minor way), you would have thought it was the Hillary 2016 campaign committee. There were so many tongues licking her boots, her foot looked like a Medusa…

The interminable accolades emanating from the mouths of the GOP members looked more like a DNC convention than a fact-finding mission. 

Besides a few legit questions, which were sandwiched in-between kisses, the House Hearing was not worth the time. The few that showed some moxie were in the Senate. 
The first credit (and a minor one) goes to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), who began to directly grill Sec. of State Hillary Clinton with this exchange:

Sen. Johnson: “We were misled that there were supposedly protests and then something sprang out of that, and assaults sprang out of that. And that was easily ascertained that that was not the fact. The American people could have known that within days, and they didn’t know that.”

Clinton: “With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest, or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they’d go kill some Americans? What difference, at this point, does it make?”

Sen. Johnson did not respond, tragically.

The second credit goes to Senator John McCain, who is good friends with Clinton … so you know it was a wee bit softball, but nonetheless he held her feet to the fire. He did ask one poignant question: “Were you aware of the classified cable from Chris Stevens that the US Consulate in Benghazi could not survive a sustained assault?”
She wasn’t … how convenient….

Undoubtedly, the only one who spoke truth to power was Sen. Rand Paul:

One of the things that disappointed me most about the original 9/11 is that no one was fired. We spent trillions of dollars, but there were a lot of human errors. These are judgment errors and the people who make judgment errors need to be replaced, fired, and no longer in the position of making these judgment calls. So, we have a review board — review board finds 64 different things that we can change. A lot of them are common sense and should be done, but the question is it’s a failure of leadership that they weren’t done in advance. And four lives were cost because of this. I’m glad that you’re accepting responsibility. I think that, ultimately, with your leaving, you accept the culpability for the worst tragedy since 9/11. And I really mean that. Had I been president at the time, and I found that you did not read the cables from Benghazi, you did not read the cables from Ambassador [Chris] Stevens, I would have relieved you of your post. I think it’s inexcusable. 

“Not to know of the request for securities, really, I think, cost these people their lives,” he added. “Their lives could have been saved had someone been more available. Had someone been aware of these things — more on top of the job.”

One Senator unequivocally cared enough about these four lives, to tell the truth, demand real answers … and to hold Clinton accountable. One Senator. ONE! Is this what we all hauled our tired tukises over to the polls, to receive?

Mickey Mantle once said, “A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.”

Welcome to the NEW GOP: The “gang” on the Hill!