Amnesia

Amnesia is a plot line that just about every soap opera has apparently forgotten that they have used dozens of times. -- Anon.

Déjà vu

Sitting through much of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s Benghazi whistle-blower hearings yesterday, I had a creeping case of déjà vu.  It seemed to be playing out a lot like those Watergate TV hearings that I slavishly followed all those many years ago.  It is a soap opera and a passion play wrapped in a fact-finding mission.

Already Twitter and the blogosphere is alive with speculation, interesting insights, and dire predictions.  And, unless the White House can get its media ducks in a row, I think that we may have an entertaining summer of more such melodrama, particularly if Jon Boehner appoints a special select investigative committee. If you want to get your feet wet on what transpired, read more from these two perspectives: Time Magazine and NY Post.  And, for those so inclined, here is a long on-the-scene narrative of what happened last Sept.11th: Greg Hicks' Transcript.

I will not jump to any hasty conclusions now (not that I don’t already have some) but I do intend to follow these Benghazi-gate developments closely and will do my best to cut through the political gristle to find those morsels of viand veracity. 

Stay tuned.

A Soap Opera

I know it is silly of me to write a blog calling out Hillary Clinton.  She, in the majority of Americans’s minds, can do no wrong.  (This is an enigma that continually has me baffled.)  But this woman’s performance surrounding the Benghazi affair has me tied in knots.  I don’t even think I have to recite her duplicity surrounding this matter.  I think that most Americans drawing in oxygen and expelling CO2, if they are willing to give it a few moments thought, know the game she is playing.  Yet they (you) are too wont to excuse her her transgressions whatever they may be.  The thing that causes my paroxysms is why the American public is so gullible?

She was more than willing to let Susan Wright take one fall for her … by sending her out in her stead on the talk show circuit that Sunday after the Benghazi attack.  And she has also concocted multiple excuses for her not testifying to Congress on this matter … including her busy schedule … her exhaustion dealing with these Middle East matters  … the need for her travel to Australia (to attend a wine tasting) … and her latest “concussion” excuse.  I have to believe that all her shenanigans in this matter are due to a transgression on her part so large that it might eliminate her from Presidential contention in 2016 … otherwise why would she be throwing up so much gorilla dust?

I can also conclude that another reason she is dragging things out until she is no longer Secretary of State is for obscure but vital legal reasons.  And, when she finally does appear before the House and the Senate to tell her side of things (probably well after the public has tired of this matter), her concussion will then be called on to performed double duty … in that many of the details of this matter will have been erased from her memory.  (She did play much this same trump card in the Whitewater hearings almost twenty years ago.)  This is a soap opera playing out in front of a very gullible American public … and many of those of you who are, in fact, smart enough to see through her charades will, nevertheless, admire her for her cunning … and still stand by her.

But not this commentator ... like a soap opera, I have experienced this script too many times before.