A Republican congresswoman said during an interview Thursday morning on MSNBC that the Benghazi committee makes for “good politics.”
MSNBC’s Jose Diaz-Balart asked Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) whether the House Select Committee on Benghazi was created expressly to sink Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers. The question came after House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) boasted earlier this week of the political damage the committee had done to the Democratic frontrunner.
“No, that was not the purpose of it at all,” Blackburn responded. “Now, there’s that old saying about good policy always making good politics when you’re doing the right things for the right reasons, then that is going to be something that makes good politics.”
The Tennessee Republican went on to say that finding “answers that need to be gotten to” is the “right thing to do” about the 2012 attack on the U.S. embassy in Libya that left American Ambassador Chris Stevens dead.
McCarthy, viewed as a likely replacement for Speaker John Boehner, connected Clinton’s drop in the polls to Republicans’ assembling the committee during an interview on Fox News on Tuesday. The issue stemming from Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state has dogged the campaign, and Democrats have long argued the probe is driven by partisan motivations.
Watch Blackburn’s full answer below:
Ah, that wonderful old saying she quotes. Did your parents tell you that every night as they tucked you in? I’m sure mine did.
Wow, another dummy! Amazing how they keep vying for the dumb or dumber title.
This is the individual who tied up and exasperated Lawrence O’Donnell (by literally not allowing O’Donnell to utter one word on his own show) during the height (depth?) of the G.O.P. Summer 2011 Standoff shenanigans.
This is the individual who had the nerve to debate Bill Nye, the Science Guy. On science.
If there is anyone who feels she has the ability to spin this in any way other than Complete Disaster for the G.O.P., it is Marsha Blackburn.
Word salad is too kind a term.
blonde trying to live the stereotype…
As the ideal representative of the dumbing down of American politics, I give you Marsha Blackburn. As much as I would like to see additional women participate in government at all levels, her level of discourse is typically equal (at best) to a snide cafeteria conversation by 7th-grade girls.