Kevin McCarthy, probable next speaker of the House, really wants the voting public to understand the House Republican plan for political domination. It's not just
using a supposed Benghazi investigation to attack Hillary Clinton in hopes of defeating her in 2016. Republicans can and should apply that strategy to other targets, McCarthy told CNN's Jake Tapper, and
Planned Parenthood is next to get the Hillary Clinton treatment:
So, that's why, within a select committee -- think of this. When you look at poll numbers of Hillary Clinton, they have dropped.
TAPPER: Right.
MCCARTHY: Unfavorables pretty high, because people say they don't trust her.
They don't trust her because of what they found out about the server and everything else. Would you ever have found that out had you not gathered the information from the Benghazi Select Committee? So, if we really want to be able to show what this Planned Parenthood has done, you see a few videos, so there's real question.
Have the select committee get all the information, all the hearings, so the public can see that. That's what -- you win the argument to win the vote.
House Republicans are about to be like Oprah: "
You get a select committee and
you get a select committee and
you ... " If they're looking to dig up dirt on you, never mind if they don't really find any. Their select committees will be happy to create the appearance of dirt.
As people sat up and noticed the implications of what he's saying, McCarthy sent a spokesman forth to issue a wordy but unconvincing denial that the Benghazi Committee's real mission has been a partisan one. Of course, it's hard to be convincing on that front when virtually all of the committee's actions, plus McCarthy's own words, contradict the denial.