We learned ‘what’ from Benghazi?

Matt Pearl

For whatever reason, I spent a little time while I was working in the office and listened to portions of the Benghazi hearings last Thursday.

I’m curious. I want to know whatever there is to know. And here’s what I’ve learned:

America is lost with these people in charge. That’s Secretary Clinton, and that’s every congressman/congresswoman involved in the proceedings.

The parties have made the security of our ambassadors in foreign lands a partisan issue. One party wishes to keep Mrs. Clinton out of the White House; the other wants to exonerate her of any wrongdoing so that the U.S. presidency can be hers in 2016.

Which one of those two things did you elect these people to do?

When you filled in the ovals next to your elected leaders’ names, did you do so with the hope that each would advance his/her partisan agenda and act as a stumbling block to the other party’s directives?

I vote for people who I believe will govern according to the betterment of the electorate and the dictates of their own consciences.

To the Republicans, I would say this: Benghazi isn’t going to happen. It’s been done.

You missed the chance to prove wrongdoing, and you need to drop it.

I know you can’t stand her, but I’ll remind you of 2012: The Beat Barack Obama agenda didn’t work, and you lost — Beat Hillary isn’t going to serve you any better.

Stop relying upon an agenda of proving her to be unfit to lead, then refocus your energy upon finding someone in your party who would make a stronger commander-in-chief.

To the Democrats: Americans have heard horrible stories of the murder of U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens.

You blew it, too. You told the people of this country that this attack happened because of this country that this attack happened because of a YouTube video. Americans can see pretty clearly that if on your president’s watch a diplomat could be murdered with apparently no consequences, you probably wouldn’t lift a finger to protect my life if I were in trouble on foreign soil.

Depending on your personal political leaning, you just read that Pearl hates the president, or Pearl doesn’t hate Hillary enough.

It’s called being a moderate, folks, which I am.

But I know that last week’s proceedings on Benghazi read like a typical partisan “slap-fight.” I basically heard cries of, “This was all your fault,” followed by retorts of, “Nothing was my fault.”

When my kids act like that, we put them in the corner or set them in chairs to think about what they’ve done until the truth comes out.

Too bad America doesn’t have the fortitude to put its political crybabies in timeout, too.

The best part of the entire experience, of course, is that we all paid for it with our tax dollars. We paid for the room, the lights, the water, the climate control, the desks, the chairs, the salaries of every incompetent fool present, and most of the cell phones and shoe leather in the room.

Sickening.

As a citizen, a taxpayer, a business owner, and a voter, I can’t say that I appreciate seeing my taxes being spent on a partisan ping-pong match televised on C-SPAN 3.

And what did we learn?

We learned that Hillary Clinton and Trey Gowdy hate each other, which I already sort of suspected.

Oh, and that none of our leaders have the first clue about what the word accountability truly means.

Here’s a hint, folks in Congress: it means that buck has to stop somewhere.