House Repubs don't censure Issa; they jump on his bandwagon

Darrell Issa (R-CA) really should be censured and removed from the chairmanship of the powerful House Goverment Oversight Committee.   Among his many other crimes is spending millions of dollars of tax payer money on partisan vendettas and pumping up his own profile for the media.

Instead, House Speaker John Boehner announced, with great flare including a campaign-style video graphics, that he is forming a Select Committee to investigate the Benghazi Scandal and White House Coverup.

Now let's be clear about this.   The Senate has already had its own select committee investigation and came up with nothing.   They found no evidence of any conspiracy to cause or cover up anything scandalous.

Issa's own investigation has spent countless hours and millions of dollars on the same thing -- and still cannot find anything.   But now they uncovered an email that conservative pundits and Fox News are ecstatically calling "the smoking gun," "Watergate-type" evidence.   It's nothing of the kind.   According to the White House, it was merely a background email about the general situation in the Middle East and not specifically about Benghazi.  Nevertheless, Issa has subpoened John Kerry to come testify.

So, here's the way Chris Hayes summed it up.   They haven't been able to find anything yet to damn the administration with;   so . . . they're going to start over and try again.

I suppose there's no chance that the answer might simply be:   there is nothing there.   No, the answer is that they think they can hurt Hillary Clinton's chances for winning the presidency by dragging out an investigation of a tragedy that occurred during her time as Secretary of State.

Ralph