re: Future Attorney General...if we're lucky.

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I would like to see the left's reaction to violating UN resolutions, i.e. weapons run to syria rebels.

That link says the resolution has 178 co-sponsors.

That number is now up to 187, including 6 additions in February.

The delay by Boehner is more likely due to a timing factor, rather than him guarding some big dark secret to protect the administration regarding arms to Syria.

He nailed it. Hell, AG, I would vote for him as the next POTUS.

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he rightfully called Pelosi "mind-numbingly stupid."

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well, I'm sure he will score in the 99% politicalboard approval.

I love how , when Gowdy started asking questions, everyone in the background got this 'This gone be good!" smirk on their faces.

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Well NH...Boehnor had best play that trump card pretty quick...or he won't be Speaker for the fireworks.

But yeah...they might be timing for the election

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RCD, it isn't only a timing factor for the 2014 elections; it's one of practical maneuvering as well.

What many casual observers do not realize is that the House Select Committee, if approved by House vote, will have only 90 days from its first meeting to its final written report deadline. 90 days to consolidate the previous work of five separate House committees, and their staffs, and then add to that the long list of new and recalled witnesses, their testimonies, thousands of newly subpoenaed documents and having to leave no stone unturned along the way. 90 days from beginning to end.

That means they have to go into the process with as much information as they possibly can, information they are continuing to gather outside of the news media.

It's actually debatable whether the Republicans would benefit from having the final report made public before November 4th, depending upon how the results are reported in the MSM. The Dems will push the idea that the report must be a blockbuster to have any meaning and even with damning results, they will be prepared to downplay them. And anything short of a blockbuster conclusion will be trumpeted as a defeat for Congressional Republicans. On the flip side, extremely damning results against State and the White House would be a boost for Republicans in November.

It's a gamble. The best scenario for the Republicans would be to have televised Benghazi hearings going on as late as the first week of October, with the report being due by mid-November.

If Boehner conducts a vote now and the resolution passes, the committee could be named, the work begun, and the final report filed by mid-Summer. Considering such a Select House Committee will bring the official Benghazi investigation to a close, a mid-summer "conclusion" may not be the best play at all.

One last comment on the conspiracy theory angle regarding Boehner. The 188 Republicans signed on to the Resolution (187 + primary sponsor Wolf) represent about 135 members over and above the entire Tea Party Caucus. The great majority of "mainstream" Republican House members have signed on, minus most Committee Chairmen and the House leadership. Most voted for Boehner as Speaker and support him. They would not intentionally sabotage him by supporting the Resolution and putting him in a no-win public spotlight.

Boehner/Cantor, et al. can't come out and say that it's a matter of timing. Most of the co-sponsors aren't raising a fuss over the delay. They understand the situation. As the total number of co-sponsors continue to grow to 200+, Boehner will be able to bring it to a vote without anyone being able to accuse him of politicizing it beyond the Washington-usual partisan vote that will result.

They're playing out the string as strategically as they can.


Added note: another consideration is that if the Republicans truly believe that they will take the Senate in November, the House Republicans can continue to build their case through the individual committees until January 3rd, and then join with the new Senate to form a JOINT Senate/House Select Committee for Benghazi, which would garner far more media attention and wield more power with additional heavy hitters being part of the process.

Out of the park, NH. Thanks.

I just wonder about the gun-running thing; it may well be that more than just Obama and his circle was part of it (assuming that's what the big coverup is all about)...could be that some of the high-up hawkish Republican's were in too.

There is so much that has to be done on the low-down...that most any responsible politico...has to get their hands dirty.

Will be interesting to see if all the facts ever come out. Doubtful they will. Like with that 9-11 Commission...with Jamie Gorelic on it when she was the prime reason that the terrorists got past our security.

DC...covering each other's backs.

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I noticed that as well.

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Completely agree here too.

If any of you have watched the hearings on a regular basis, you have also seen that Jim Jordan is a ferocious and focused interrogator as well. (He's the short guy standing behind Gowdy.) He can fit more questions into his 5-minute quota than any one I've seen in years of watching C-Span hearings, many of them requiring yes or no , no-horseshite-allowed , answers, with the first word of his next question coming within a millisecond of the answer to the previous question. If Gowdy and Jordan could get their 5 minutes each back to back, instead of having their momentum separated by 5 minutes of a Dem using 4 minutes to praise the witness and the last minute to ask a softball question, the witness would probably opt for being waterboarded.