{"id":44148,"date":"2014-08-05T11:02:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T17:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/05\/the-party-of-small-government-right.html"},"modified":"2014-08-06T18:09:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T00:09:03","slug":"the-party-of-small-government-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/05\/the-party-of-small-government-right.html","title":{"rendered":"The party of small government, right?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Because, after 8 separate bodies have investigated the Benghazi tragedy, including the House Intelligence Committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee, the independent State Department Accountability Review Board, the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the House Armed Services Committee, the House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform, and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs — all of whom have found a serious lack of smoking guns regarding the Big Scandal Stuff that Fox News keeps telling us is behind the Benghazi attacks — what the GOP House has decided we really need is …<\/p>\n

… another investigative committee!<\/p>\n

Good to hear the party of small government is out there, watching how our tax dollars are spent.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

\n

\n \n <\/div>\n

Yet another setback for Benghazi conspiracy theorists<\/a>
\n The Republican-led House Intelligence Committee has reportedly reached the same non-scandalous conclusions as everyone else.\n <\/p>\n

View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because, after 8 separate bodies have investigated the Benghazi tragedy, including the House Intelligence Committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee, the independent State Department Accountability Review Board, the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, the House Armed Services Committee, the House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform, and the House … Continue reading “The party of small government, right?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,10,358],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-poor-citizenship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44127,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/03\/but-but-what-about-benghazi.html","url_meta":{"origin":44148,"position":0},"title":"But … but … what about Benghazi!?","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 3-Aug-14 6:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A year after the Senate Intelligence Committee determined there was no Administration wrongdoing around the Benghazi attack, the GOP-led House Intelligence Committee had determined ... there was no Administration wrongdoing around the Benghazi attack.Don't worry, though -- the House GOP is teeing up yet another set of hearings on the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":48444,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/22\/oh-look-another-benghazi-investigation-reports-no-scandal.html","url_meta":{"origin":44148,"position":1},"title":"Oh, look, another BENGHAZI! investigation reports no scandal","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 22-Nov-14 5:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Nicely timed:'The House Intelligence Committee report was released with little fanfare on the Friday before Thanksgiving week.'The GOP-controlled House Intelligence Committee finds no smoking gun. Again.'Many of its findings echo those of six previous investigations by various congressional committees and a State Department panel.'Think that might be the end of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129382,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/07\/at-last-the-gop-benghazi-committee-has-achieved-something.html","url_meta":{"origin":44148,"position":2},"title":"At last the GOP Benghazi Committee has achieved something!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 7-Jan-16 11:40am","format":false,"excerpt":"House Select Committee on Benghazi has succeeded in being in existence longer than the congressional panels investigating Hurricane Katrina, the attack on Pearl Harbor, the assassination of President Kennedy, Iran-Contra, the CIA (the Church Committee), or Watergate ... as well as longer than the bi-partisan congressional committee that investigated 9\/11.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":36616,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/29\/paul-lepage-is-a-dolt-censorship-freedom-guns-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":44148,"position":3},"title":"Paul LePage is a Dolt (Censorship! Freedom! Guns! Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 29-May-13 3:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear Governor-of-Maine LePage,Parliamentary gameplaying is not censorship. \u00a0It's frustrating (when on the receiving end), and perhaps even rude (or perhaps not), but it's not censorship.And a state legislator\u00a0refusing to let you speak out of turn at a committee hearing has nothing to do with Benghazi. Or, for that matter, with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3698,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/10\/04\/posturing.html","url_meta":{"origin":44148,"position":4},"title":"Posturing","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 4-Oct-02 9:11am","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, let me get this straight. The Senate Intelligence Committee wants George Tenet, the head of the CIA, to come visit them. Tenet lets the Senate know a week in...","rel":"","context":"In "Geopolitical Brouhaha"","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133414,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/06\/the-senate-gop-health-care-committee-is-all-men-but-thats-not-about-identity.html","url_meta":{"origin":44148,"position":5},"title":"The Senate GOP health care committee is all men. But that's not about "identity"","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 6-May-17 9:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, yeah, as the headline notes, there are more Ted Cruzes than there are women on the Senate Republican committee drafting their health insurance bill. There are, in fact, five female GOP Senators, but none of them are on the committee.Despite the fact that women make up half of the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44222,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44148\/revisions\/44222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}