The Patriot Post® · McCarthy vs. Clinton on Benghazi

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy will be in the spotlight more frequently as he is the presumptive replacement for outgoing House Speaker John Boehner. And he’s in hot water this week for inadvertently politicizing the House Benghazi investigation with very careless remarks. “Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right?” McCarthy said. “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.” Clinton immediately spun his remarks as evidence the investigation is nothing more than a partisan witch hunt, thus absolving her of wrongdoing. “I knew the ambassador that we lost in Benghazi,” she railed. “When I hear a statement like that, which demonstrates unequivocally that this was always meant to be a partisan, political exercise, I feel like it does a grave disservice and dishonors not just the memory of the four that we lost but of everybody who has served our country.”

Of course, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are responsible not just for dishonoring the memory of four dead Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, but for their very lives. And it was Clinton and Obama who propagated the political lie that those deaths were the result of an anti-Islamic Internet video and not al-Qa'ida. They did so to protect Obama’s false re-election narrative that “al-Qa'ida is on the run.” What McCarthy meant was that the events before, during and after the attack prove Clinton is untrustworthy. That is an understatement. She’s a political hack and a liar, so it’s no wonder the Benghazi panel is indeed having an effect on how the public sees her — the panel was the only way the truth could ever come out. McCarthy’s inarticulate statement and Hillary’s ensuing temper tantrum in no way absolves her of malfeasance and dereliction of duty. Remember that while the Leftmedia heads for the fainting couch over the shock of politicians making political calculations.