Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) accused Speaker John Boehner of fueling “right-wing conspiracy theories” and “staging a partisan political circus” on Friday after the Ohio Republican said he’d set up a select committee to investigate the Benghazi attacks of 2012.
True to form, the Democratic leader also used the occasion to launch yet another broadside against the Koch brothers. His full statement can be read below.
“Republicans are showing yet again that they have nothing to offer the middle class. Republicans care more about defending billionaires like the Koch brothers and trying to rekindle debunked right-wing conspiracy theories than raising the minimum wage or ensuring women receive equal pay for equal work.
“There have already been multiple investigations into this issue and an independent Accountability Review Board is mandated under current law. For Republicans to waste the American people’s time and money staging a partisan political circus instead of focusing on the middle class is simply a bad decision. While Republicans try to gin up yet another political food fight, Senate Democrats will remain focused on fostering economic growth for all hard-working Americans.”
Go, Harry. I love me some Harry Reid, vintage 2014.
exactly,nothing else left to say except, i hope the dem learn a lesson on how to treat the rethhugs wnen they get the chance for political retribution.
I don’t know that Dems should copy this, this just looks like Repubs are flailing around trying to find something to attack Obama on. Just like the Whitewater hearings & the impeachment did in the past.
Gee, 3000 Americans died in the 9/11 attacks, and guess what: no congressional investigations, but only a ‘special commission’ with strict limits on what they could access and discuss.
I feel terrible for the FOUR Americans who died in the Benghazi attack, but the GOP is so desperate and so unable to find any real scandals that they will waste more and more millions of taxpayer dollars on such nonsense ‘investigations.’
Under Bush II, ELEVEN US embassies were attacked, resulting in 53 deaths and 91 injured. But nobody investigated W. or his SOS, did they?
The GOP is desperate, and it really, really shows.
Doubts about Harry Reid waning mind are disappearing each and every time he opens his mouth.