Don't Quit The Benghaaazi! Committee Now, Dems -- It's Just Starting To Get Interesting

Yesterday, Congressman Adam Smith (D-Wa.) said this in response to Republican Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's confession that the purpose of the Select Committee on Benghaaazi!! is to go after Hillary Clinton politically: “[T]he committee is a joke and I think Democrats ought to call it what it is and say we`re not going to participate in this anymore."

Wait what?  The Republicans just handed you the greatest cudgel ever and you're gonna quit now?

Look, I know that it must be pretty hard to be in the minority party in the House these days, particularly given that the GOP doesn't seems to have any interest in actually governing anymore, preferring instead to spend its time incompetently going after Planned Parenthood, conducting dozens of useless Obamacare repeal votes, and presiding over bogus Benghazi investigations.  But every so often, the Republicans do something so incredibly stupid that it makes enduring all the GOP horseshit almost worth it.

And this is one of those times.  So instead of threatening to quit, Congressman Smith should say something like this: "Quit?  Are you fucking kidding me? Given what Majority Leader McCarthy just admitted, I can't wait for the next hearing!"

I know if I was on that Committee and it was my turn to ask Hillary some questions, I'd ask something like this:

"Secretary Clinton, last month, Republican House leadership finally came clean and admitted what everyone already knew, namely, that the purpose of this committee is not to investigate the Benghazi attack, but to go after you politically.  As president, what would you be willing to do in order to curtail such Congressional abuses of power?"

Of course, there is nothing a president could do directly to stop crap like this from occurring in Congress, but such a question would give Hillary an opportunity to go on the attack and bring up stuff like how much these bogus investigations have cost taxpayers.  She could then say that as president, she would use the bully pulpit to highlight these types of Congressional abuses and then ask voters to punish those responsible.

Anyway, my point is that the Democrats have the GOP on the ropes right now with regard to all the Benghaaazi! fuckery, and the time has come to start landing blows.  The knife is in and the time has come to start twisting it. The ball has been tee'd up and it is time to hit it 350 yards down the fairway.  I'm running out of metaphors.

Bottom line:  If anyone is going to quit the Select Committee on Benghaaazi!!, it should be the fucking Republicans.  But they'll never quit, because quitting now would make them look weak to their Hillary-hating, Obama-despising base.  The inability of the GOP to throw in the towel on shit like this is a weakness, one the Democrats need to exploit.