Goodlatte to ignorant masses: report on consulate attack in Benghazi not politically motivated

The vast amount of what political representatives in the U.S. Congress do is politically motivated. This may sound like a common-sense statement, but Virginia’s very own Rep. Bob Goodlatte (Roanoke County) would like his constituents and Americans in general to believe otherwise.

According to Goodlatte, House Judiciary Committee chairman, ““As Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, I will continue to investigate this terrorist attack and provide the American people and the families of the victims with the answers they deserve and demand that the Administration hold accountable with appropriate disciplinary actions those who made these poor and costly decisions.” 

Goodlatte’s comments come after the House Republican Conference released its first report on the September 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. But before you conclude that the report is another political stunt being thrown around by the party of shamelessness (i.e., the GOP), Goodlatte  doesn’t want “to make political hay for partisan purposes.” Good, now I can rest assured that no political hay will be made for political ends.

Goodlatte’s statement is so audacious, it almost tops many notable Del. Robert Marshall (Prince William) or Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli statements in absurdity (but not quite).  

Of course the Republican Party is using the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi as a political issue, otherwise they would be focused on another incident that caused even more deaths in this country, the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut. Yeah, the Newtown shootings were kind of a big deal that has been all but forgotten by many in the Republican Party, at least relative to the consulate attack in Benghazi.

Or was the shooting incident in Newtown, Connecticut a federal government conspiracy as well? We can only wonder…

How did it come to pass that elected representatives (whether Democrat or Republican, but overwhelmingly the latter) can get away with making some of the most insulting and audacious statements imaginable, and oftentimes without so much as a shrug from the vast majority of Americans? And who keeps voting these individuals into office?!

For all of the lip-service paid to the Founding Fathers by conservative politicians in particular like Bob Goodlatte, it’s not unreasonable to argue that the Founding Fathers would be aghast at the lucid hypocrisy, unethical behavior, greed, hate, anger, fear, and stupidity demonstrated by many members of the Republican Party in our own time. When they created our republic, they did so hoping that America’s elected representatives would be a virtuous lot. But my-oh my, how that apple has fallen far from the proverbial tree.