Apparently some of our readers misunderstood my first post on this particular topic as a swipe at the fiery constitutionalist congressman from South Carolina-4. Which strikes me as odd seeing as how I spent the first paragraph taking great pains to stress that I love Trey Gowdy and that his impotence is not personal or otherwise anything to do with him but institutional, a function of the gutless party he inhabits and the powerlessness of the branch of government in which he futiley serves. I actually pity the man, being set up as the titular head of a Select Committee on Benghazi that is an empty gesture, a potemkin entity that will never be allowed to get to the bottom of anything.
Trey Gowdy has been set up to fail, and fail humiliatingly.
And the noogies just keep on coming:
The latest twist could come this week, when Gowdy, a three-term congressman from South Carolina-4 who was appointed a year ago to lead the Benghazi panel, is expected to say whether he’ll accept [Mrs.] Clinton’s offer to appear once — but only once — before his committee next week.
The answer likely will be no: Gowdy and Republicans wanted Clinton to appear for a private interview with the committee but later offered two public hearings as a compromise.
“The fear was if she was to do two hearings, he would take the information from the first, which would probably be about the emails, and cherry-pick it and use it in whatever way was most advantageous,” said Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD7), the top Democrat on the Benghazi panel. “This thing has gotten to be too much about Hillary Clinton and far away from what the parents of the victims (of the attacks) asked from us.”
At the very least, Gowdy wants the State Department to turn over a trove of documents before scheduling a public hearing with Clinton.
This is in the context of Gowdy acting like a penitent approaching the throne:
Regardless, one just has to go through the Committee’s various press releases to see that Gowdy has been accommodating of Mrs. Clinton. He requested Clinton turn over the private server to a third party to be analyzed, but her lawyers said it wasn't worth it, noting that the server had been wiped clean, along with any back-up systems attached to it. The Committee also wanted a transcribed interview with the former secretary of state, and even said that members of the Committee–and the transcriber–would come to Mrs. Clinton; that was also denied. Then Gowdy’s request that Clinton appear before the House panel twice was semi-rebuffed, with Kendall saying that they would agree to one showing.
Gee, when Democrat committee chairman are hauling Republicans before them to drill the living snot out of them, there's no "negotiating" or "compromising". They fire off the subpoenas and the GOP witnesses show up to be flayed alive or arrest warrants go out next. Yet somehow it's the Empress who is calling the shots. Makes Chairman Gowdy look like his nuts are in Hillary's lock box, doesn't it?
As I say, "set up to fail". And current reigning Commissar of State John Kerry is getting in on the fun with a swirlie of his own:
The GOP-led House panel probing the 2012 Benghazi attack has put off plans for a hearing with Hillary Clinton, telling Secretary of State John Kerry in a letter that State’s failure to release documents is standing in the way.
“The only thing standing between the Committee and the former Secretary being able to discuss her tenure as Secretary of State as it relates to Libya and Benghazi is the Department of State’s failure, in more than half a year, to produce a single, solitary email responsive to our request and subpoena,” wrote Representative Trey Gowdy, chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi.
Gowdy last month had floated the idea of a hearing to take place as soon as May 18th, but now says that lawmakers need more information to inform their questions to [Mrs.] Clinton about the fatal attacks and her use of a private email server for State Department business.
“There is still the possibility of scheduling the former Secretary’s appearance soon, but that is contingent upon Department of State compliance,” Gowdy wrote.
Democrats on the panel allege that Gowdy is delaying the hearing and slow-walking the probe for political reasons. [emphases added]
Please. There is no probe. The Democrats are not permitting one worthy of the term. Nor are they ever going to. And every additional day this farce goes on, they are rubbing Trey Gowdy's nose in that fact, and in the inescapable reality that there is not a single, solitary thing he can do about it.
That's not Chairman Gowdy's failure; it is that of the American electorate that lifted the entire Democrat Party above the law and the Constitution with their disastrously foolish voting choices over the past six and a half years. A debacle that, among other things, betrayed and abandoned to enemy slaughter four men in Benghazi almost three years ago whose murders will never be avenged, their killers never brought to justice, and all for the greater glory of an old harridan whose dreams of vindicatory power will never be realized.
Trey Gowdy is not a failure; he's a victim. And a bystander, helplessly witnessing the slow-motion rigor mortis of the corpse of the Old American Republic - just like the rest of us.
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