Outgoing House Speaker John Boehner pulled out his binder of women to attack women's health care.
The Benghazi Committee is going so well that House Speaker John Boehner has decided it's time for another select committee to carry out a partisan witch hunt against something that Republicans are already investigating the crap out of. Yup, Planned Parenthood.
“At my request, three House committees have been investigating the abortion business, but we still don’t have the full truth,” Boehner said in a statement Friday.
Sound familiar? The whole truth! Then again, when your Oversight Committee chair is brandishing a
chart that makes 327,000 look bigger than 935,573, it's reasonable to hope that putting someone else in charge of the investigation will make your party look less buffoonish.
Except that's not exactly how it's worked out with Benghazi, is it?
The committee will be led by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). Its other Republican members will be Joe Pitts (R-PA), Diane Black (R-TN), Larry Bucshon (R-IN), Sean Duffy (R-WI), Andy Harris (R-MD), Vicki Hartzler (R-MO), and Mia Love (R-UT). Republicans are going to be super proud that they got four whole women on the list, but it's not like there's any ideological diversity there. It's a committee of confirmed Planned Parenthood-haters, by design, and its task is to "investigate" a load of nonsense coming out of deceptive, heavily edited videos and wild accusations. It's just one more part of a broader war on women's health care and reproductive rights in general and Planned Parenthood in particular.
No doubt Republicans are hoping to use this committee to drive down Planned Parenthood's poll numbers just like they did with Benghazi and Hillary Clinton, but Planned Parenthood would have to go a long, long way down to be as unpopular as congressional Republicans.
Will Democrats dignify this committee with their presence?