We'll always have Lindsey

[thewayne]

"Full of crap."
—Sen. Lindsey Graham on House Republican report on Benghazi

You're saying that an inquestinvestigation by a panel headed and controlled by Republicans, your own party, is not reasonably accurate, even when the report does criticize actions taken by the State Department and the President's people?

I guess nothing short of a witch burning would satisfy him.

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[silveradept]

If it didn't validate all the conspiracy theories, it couldn't possibly be true, because he already knew what the truth was.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

"How dare your investigated facts trump my beliefs!"

It's going to be interesting to see what Stewart/Colbert do with this next week.

[silveradept]

Well, it's always been a case of "I reject your reality and substitute my own" when it comes to Benghazi. And likely will continue to be.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Amusingly, we've been listening to a podcast produced by Mother Jones called Inquiring Minds (available on iTunes and elsewhere for free) and they had Adam Savage on recently for an extended interview during a San Francisco live taping. It was quite good, I highly recommend looking it up.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Out of sheer, random curiosity, I wonder if he was as dismissive of the Clinton-era Whitewater investigations, which seemed to launch somewhere around his election, and conclude shortly before the hideous scandal of a blow job was revealed.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I decided to look up the Senator's Wikipedia page to see how long he's been on The Hill, turns out he went to Washington in '95. I found this excerpt quite interesting:

He was a member of the Judiciary Committee during the impeachment of President Bill Clinton in 1998.[31] He was the only Republican on the Committee to vote against any of the articles of impeachment (the second count of perjury in the Paula Jones case), famously asking: "Is this Watergate or Peyton Place?"

I don't know about Whitewater, but I think it would have taken an indictment from law enforcement to sway him. But of course that was then, this is now. His Wikipedia entry says he's a staunch opponent of the Tea Party, so who knows.

My wife likes to say of Clinton vs Bush, 'When Clinton lied, no one died.' Dubya lied to Congress during his State of the Union address, but it could be argued that he wasn't under oath, therefore it was not a crime. Clinton's peccadillo certainly didn't rise to the level of "high crime and misdemeanor."