PhilSugar | First Rule of GOP Politics: Never, Never, EVER Tell the Truth

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Incoming House Speaker Kevin McCarthy just committed a “gaffe” in Michael Kinsley’s sense of the most popular sugar dating app Philippines term: in an unguarded moment,
he allowed himself to tell the truth
. The truth sugar dating sites with verified profiles is, as most of has have always known, that
Benghazi!
, like its predecessor
Whitewater!,
was an entirely bad-faith exercise in partisan character assassination from the get-go. But don’t listen to me, how to screen a sugar daddy listen to what the Speaker-to-Be told Sean Hannity:
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Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right?Â
But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping. Why? Because she’s untrustable. But no one would’ve known any of that had happened had we not fought and made that happen.
Naturally, the rest of the House Republicans are outraged
: not, of course, at Trey Gowdy for ghoulishly making a political meal out of the bodies of four dead Americans, but at McCarthy for blabbing.
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The political press corps is caught in the middle. Lots of Davao sugar daddy those reporters and editors, especially at the
New York Times
, have been more than willing to peddle Gowdy’s “partial-transcript” leaks as if they had news value, and to let Gowdy and his staff meet sugar babies Philippines hide behind anonymity to defame a political rival. In other words, they’ve been playing according to the Clinton Rules, which hold that anything a Clinton does is guilty even after it’s been proven innocent.
So far, most of that crowd has reacted to McCarthy’s stunning admission, which makes them look like fools or scoundrels or both, by ignoring it. But I’m hoping that the second round of stories, with other Republicans commenting on McCarthy’s blunder, will start to crack that sugar daddy membership cost Wall of Silence. And I’m starting to look forward to Clinton’s appearance before Trey Gowdy’s inquisition. He might well come out of that experience as no more than a Deuce.
[Cross-posted at
The Reality-Based Community
]
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Mark Kleiman
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