{"id":182386,"date":"2015-10-04T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/04\/the-mask-slips\/"},"modified":"2015-10-04T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T01:30:00","slug":"the-mask-slips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/10\/04\/the-mask-slips\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mask Slips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leading candidate to replace John Boehner as speaker, Kevin McCarthy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/kevin-mccarthys-truthful-gaffe\/2015\/09\/30\/f12a9fac-67a8-11e5-8325-a42b5a459b1e_story.html\">just accidentally told the truth about the House&#8217;s Benghazi investigations<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">So now we know: One of the principal reasons Republicans spent so much public money investigating the tragic Benghazi episode was to bring down Hillary Clinton\u2019s poll numbers.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), the likely successor to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), told Fox News\u2019s Sean Hannity explicitly on Tuesday night that the Clinton investigation was part of a \u201cstrategy to fight and win.\u201d <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">He explained: \u201cEverybody 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. Why? Because she\u2019s untrustable. But no one would have known any of that had happened, had we not fought.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Republican-led House hasn\u2019t been particularly good at governing, but perhaps governing has never been the point. Why govern when there\u2019s a future election to influence? <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That the Benghazi investigation is a crock of sh%$ is not a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>That a Republican party leader basically admitted that it was all a politically motivated freak show on a public program is a bit of a surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leading candidate to replace John Boehner as speaker, Kevin McCarthy just accidentally told the truth about the House&#8217;s Benghazi investigations: So now we know: One of the principal reasons Republicans spent so much public money investigating the tragic Benghazi episode was to bring down Hillary Clinton\u2019s poll numbers.Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), the likely &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,998,970,964,978,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-congress","category-corruption","category-foreign-relations","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}