I'm not slanted, you're slanted.
Good news, everybody. The House Committee on
Benghazi!, Trey Gowdy edition, is
ready to return to work.
The Select Committee on Benghazi will continue to convene in 2015, over the objections of Democrats, after House Republicans pushed through language Tuesday to reauthorize the panel without giving any budget or time limits for its work.
The GOP did not allow for a separate up-or-down vote that would have permitted members to debate the continuation of the special panel. The panel cost upwards of $1 million to operate last Congress, when the House voted to establish it.
Objectors to the Gowdy panel have rudely pointed out that there have already been multiple
Benghazi! panels, and not one of them found evidence of whatever it is
Benghazi! conspiracy theorists are forever announcing they have almost found. You may presume that the purpose of the panel is to continue to stew in their own juices until a point nearer the 2016 elections, at which point they will suddenly announce brand-new
Benghazi! revelations that somehow implicate [insert any given Democratic frontrunner here], none of it very well sourced or explained, which will then make its way to expressions of faded outrage on numerous American car bumpers.
So how is it that the Committee will continue with no set budget or time frame for "completing" their work? It was put into the rules package for the new Congress, a must-pass bill governing how America's most reliably terrible legislative body will conduct themselves. So think of it as a "rule" now, along with "all members of Congress will check with Rep. Steve King before saying the word 'immigration' in a sentence" and "thou shalt not interrupt House Speaker Boehner during bourbon time, and it is always bourbon time."