Lindsey Graham: Whoever Plays Politics With Benghazi Will Get Burned

by JASmius

In a word: Puh-leeze:

Democrats have accused Republicans of playing politics over the 2012 Benghazi attacks. Senator Lindsey Graham says that isn't true, but anyone who does use the tragedy for political gain will get burned.

"So if we're playing politics with Benghazi, then we'll get burned," the South Carolina senator said Sunday on "Face the Nation."

"If our Democratic friends are shielding the administration and trying to protect them, and if the administration tried to protect themselves – the re-election – because they couldn't stand the truth about Benghazi, then they'll get burned," Graham said.

Don't you just love it how every last politician ever and always decries "playing politics"?  Don't you also just love how Grahamnesty keeps using the maddeningly irksome phrase "our Democratic friends"?  I mean, I'm not insisting that he refer to them as "those commie-lib bastards" or "those Alinskyite sons of bitches," but they're not our or anybody else's "friends," and every time he says it it makes me want to slap him.

But back to "playing politics".  Can we all understand something very basic and fundamental, please?  Everything a politician does constitutes "playing politics".  In politics, "playing politics" is the coin of the realm.  You may as well tell Kenny G or Chuck Mangione to be musicians but stop playing their "horns," or Katy Perry to be a singer but stop using her voice, or Angelina Jolie to be a sex symbol but get a double mastectomy.....okay, she did get her hooters surgically removed, but that's the exception to the rule.  Every politician plays politics, and what's more, every politician must play politics, or that politician won't be a politician for very long.  A case of, "Do it unto them before they do it unto you" - because they will, especially Democrats.

This ought to illustrate another basic, fundamental truism that seems to have been long forgotten: "Playing politics" is a neutral activity.  It can be dishonorable and despicable, as in the Benghazigate scandal, or it can be righteous and patriotic, as in the GOP's attempt to expose it and bring ALL those responsible to well-earned justice.  But here's the thing: All of it happens in the political arena.

Which illustrates something else: How the Left has hijacked and partisanized the very phrase "playing politics" to mean Republicans doing anything that might benefit them politically, regardless of how virtuous their motives, thus morally stigmatizing or even quasi-criminalizing any steps or actions that might be taken to hinder the unfettered advance of the hard-Left agenda and accompanying narrative.  Effectively to dupe and bully the GOP into unilaterally disarming itself and not even try to stop what the Democrat Party is doing to the late, great United States of America.

I look at what Lindsey Grahamnesty said this morning on Press The Meat and I want to slap him all over again, because he's effectively calling for the House Select Committee on Benghazi to handcuff itself.  Tell me, Senator, what is wrong with Republicans "playing politics" on Benghazi; is that the issue here, or is it exposing the Obama Regime deliberately sending an ambassador into known and warned-about harm's way, forbidding any rescue attempt when harm came, resulting in the slaughter of said ambassador, another consulate official, and two Navy SEALS, and covering it all up so as not to endanger O's re-election chances by blaming a YouTube video nobody had previously ever seen and making a de facto Sharia political prisoner of its producer?  What's more, given the dead-cinch certainty that this investigation will never go any further than public dissemination of whatever Trey Gowdy can garrote out of Regime witnesses, is it not both appropriate, necessary, and yes, just for Republicans to benefit politically from doing so?  Should not the party that countenances such vicious, brutal, cynical infamy be electorally punished and made to suffer for its leaders' crimes, since its leaders never will be?

It isn't "playing politics" that Democrats abhor, it's "losing politics," and they know they can't lose if they maintain a monopoly on the "game".  Lindsey Grahamnesty is all too willing to concede that field; fortunately, Trey Gowdy will not.