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Originally Posted by JD Barleycorn
It is interesting and very revealing about what you think about things by how you decribe others motives. My interest right now is getting to the truth, which is where you should be but you're thinking about politices and assume that we are too. Now anyone would be an idiot if they didn't think of how this would bode in the future but as a motive..... This is about the truth and punishing the guilty so that something this cowardly never happens again.
You would also like us to forget that some of us have been on this story since September of last year. Many of you have tried to deflect, lie, and muddy the waters so this story doesn't see the light of day. It is hypocritical of you now to say that there is no story or would you care to explain the effort that you have put in to stop this day from happening. You're just plain fucked now. The truth is starting to get out and it doesn't look very good. So keep squawking and bitching.
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I assume that rant was addressed to me -- but don't know for sure, since you rarely use the "quote function."
If so, I find it amusing that you claim that "I" am "just plain fucked" now. I'm certainly no fan of either Obama or Hillary, both of whom have demonstrated manifest and obvious failures. If either or both of them take on water as a result of this fiasco, that's just fine and dandy with me.
It's just that I think far too much bandwidth has been devoted to this issue, and to the virtual exclusion of almost everything else. Given that we've seen no effective leadership on economic issues -- from
either party -- I don't think Benghazi-related matters are at the forefront of most Americans' concerns.
Just for starters:
Nothing has been done to address the out-of-control growth of health care spending. The "reform" plan passed three years ago simply seeks to expand a badly broken, massively expensive, terribly dysfunctional system. I know few people who believe that implementation isn't going to be chaotic and very expensive. Peter Orszag told us several years ago that the new legislation would "bend the cost curve." It does that, all right -- but in the wrong direction!
Nothing has been done about financial reform. The TBTF banks are about 60% bigger than they were in 2007, and a lot of community banks are being virtually starved out of business. Dodd-Frank did far more harm than good, and instead of fixing anything we've simply built a bridge to the next financial crisis. Among other things, in my opinion, we need a new version of Glass-Steagall, updated for the needs of a 21st-century financial system.
Nothing is being done to address the desperate need for entitlement reform. Neither party appears likely to address issues such as the need for means-testing, for example.
Tax reform is desperately needed. Our code is simply a national embarrassment.
Then there's monetary policy, trade policy, various regulatory headwinds, etc., etc. The list of structural impediments to robust, sustained economic growth goes on and on. And none of them are being addressed by either of our dysfunctional parties, both of which are only interested in serving up demagoguery.
The Benghazi issue would probably work well for Republicans if more of them were perceived to be statesmen rather than political hacks only interested in scoring victories over the opposing party. But in that regard they're no better than Obama, who obviously is only interested in the same, and has no intention of making any tough decisions or undertaking any serious efforts to fix or reform anything.
But look at their approval polling numbers lately. I think that's why Republicans are likely to simply shoot themselves in the foot over this issue.
I believe that a large and growing number of people would prefer to see congress aggressively address
all of our myriad problems, not just Benghazi.
