Grandiloquent Inquisition

Gand Inquisitor Gowdy is eagerly riding the soiled coat tails of Grand Inquisitor Issa on the road to absurdity. Forget that Grand Inquisitor Issa ignored the fact that a Republican Congress denied the funds Hillary Clinton requested to provide protection for our embassies and consulates, or that Issa ignored thirteen instances under George W. Bush that were every bit as bad as Benghazi. Forget that Issa demonstrated how phony the issue of Benghazi was by misrepresenting the evidence in such a blatant manner that even his fellow Republicans felt compelled to replace Grand Inquisitor Issa with Grand Inquisitor Gowdy (or is that Gougey?). And please try to suppress the yawns, the groans, and the giggles. I know this alleged issue has become so old and tattered and politically inconsequential that only right wing dullards cheer the sight of it rising again like a moldy flag of desperation. But this time the Republicans promise something new.

It seems as though Secretary of State Clinton had the temerity to do something every Secretary of State has done since government officials started using e-mails – to wit she used her private e-mail account when conducting the government's business. There was no law against her doing that at the time, but that has not stopped the hue and cry of Republicans who have nothing but fear and loathing to sell. There is a law against it now so it obviously should not have been done then, they piously say. What is Hillary hiding? Could it be the same thing all those other Secretaries of State were hiding? Or could it be something connected to the fizzling issue that has been chafing the elephant's crotch since 2012?

Grand Inquisitor Gowdy insists that he needs all of Hillary's e-mails to get to the bottom of Benghazi, and apparently to get to the bottom of whatever else he might want to scratch. Mr. Gowdy is encouraged in doing this by the drama casters in the lame stream media who are agog over allegations that Hillary Clinton might have deleted something relevant. She is a Clinton after all, and we all know scandal follows the Clintons. “Give us all,” they wail. “We want it all!” That apparently means even the documents that are classified. That will not happen, and the sound they will hear as the Republicans try to tie Hillary's use of her private e-mail account to Benghazi will be the sound of snoring! The real news flash is that no one who is inclined to vote for a Democrat is going to be impressed by grandiloquent accusations about Benghazi and e-mails; that boat load of bull shit has already sailed! The lame stream media would be well advised to stick to the real issues and leave the phony ones to the Fox disinformation factory.