Congressional Cons challenge Issa on Benghazi

This is the funniest thing I read today. Apparently the little people at home are wondering why they never see their guy on the teevee. Thus, the Crackpot caucus demands a piece of Issa's action.

House Republican members are defying Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and five committee chairmen by endorsing a measure that would set up a special panel to investigate the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

A growing number of members on the committees with jurisdiction over the Benghazi matter — Intelligence, Judiciary, Oversight and Government Reform, Armed Services and Foreign Affairs — have signed onto Rep. Frank Wolf’s (R-Va.) resolution. [...]

Wolf told The Hill in an interview, “I think you want to bring together the very best minds, you want to focus like a laser beam ...

[Insert your own snark here]

Actually, it's even bigger than just the crackpots. Last I heard 146 GOPers have signed as co-sponsors. If Boehner won't bring it to the floor they intend to push it as an amendment to appropriations bills. Poor old Johnny really is going to go down in history as the weakest Speaker ever. [graphic via his vorpal sword]

John Boehner: Dunce or deceiver?

Credit where's it due. Dancing Dave called out Boehner on his show this past Sunday.

NBC's David Gregory and House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) butted heads during an interview when the speaker insisted that President Obama did not have a plan to replace sequestration and Gregory disagreed. ...

"Mr. Speaker, that's just not true," Gregory said. "They've made it very clear, as the president just did, that he has a plan that he's put forward that involves entitlement cuts, that involves spending cuts. That you've made a choice, as have Republicans, to leave tax loopholes in place and you'd rather have those and live with all these arbitrary cuts."

Boehner's response to being confronted with unequivocal truth?

"Well David, that's just nonsense. If they had a plan, why wouldn't Senate Democrats go ahead and pass it," he said.

Rinse and repeat. Of course the obvious answer to that is, um... GOP filibuster. Republicans blocked the up or down vote. It's clear Dems had the votes to pass it on a simple majority. As far as I can tell, Dave didn't push that point.

If you want more, (from whence I stole the title), Steve Benen does the full fisk of the segment. Me, I vote for deceiver. Nobody is that stupid. Not even Boehner