So Republicans want a #Benghazi freak show? Give them a freak show. (hint: it involves Alan Grayson)

[Bill USA]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/05/15/so-republicans-want-a-benghazi-freak-show-give-them-a-freak-show/

The idea started out as a bit of a gag on twitter and on the blogs: Rather than legitimize the new House GOP select committee on #Benghazi by sending a full slate of Dems to participate, Dems should instead send a single lawmaker who is well schooled in mixing it up with Republican crazy. In other words: Why not just turn Dem Rep. Alan Grayson loose?

It now appears that the Draft Grayson movement is gaining a bit of traction, with two major liberal groups giving some thought to pushing it.

A petition on the Credo Mobilize site calling on House Democrats to send only Grayson has now garnered 17,000 signatures. Credo officials say they think it’s possible the signatures could soon pass the 50,000 mark.

Meanwhile, a source at MoveOn tells me the group “has taken notice and is looking into the idea as a way of exposing the committee as the kangaroo court that it is.”
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Alan Grayson: The perfect Democrat to fight back against Republicans' Benghazi witch hunt

To: Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi

We urge you to appoint Florida Representative Alan Grayson as the sole Democratic member of the House Select Committee to Investigate Benghazi, or appoint no one at all.

Why is this important?

Speaker Boehner bowed to the most paranoid elements of the right-wing by appointing a Select Committee to Investigate Benghazi to conduct yet another fishing expedition around the tragic 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. This Committee is being pursued after bi-partisan committees in both the House and Senate have already generated tens of thousands of documents about the causes and events surrounding that day.

In protest of Republican rules granting Chairman Trey Gowdy unilateral subpoena power, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi has yet to appoint minority members. Democrats received no guarantee they will be allowed access to interview witnesses before public testimony is given.
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[IkeRepublican]

1. Grayson already undressed those candy asses

[Beacool]

2. I would pay to see that.

[Bill USA]

3. They of course want to get Hillary to pillory. but if Grayson was there he would ask her: "Is it

true that when you were Sec of State, the Republicans cut your requests for funding of the State Department's Worldwide security operations, two years in a row?"

Hillary: "Yes, that is a fact."

Grayson: "and is it true that you said at that time that; "The scope of the proposed House cuts is massive," .. and also: "The truth is that cuts of that level will be detrimental to America's national security."

Hillary: "Yes, I did say that."

Grayson: "Thank you Mrs. Clinton"

[Beacool]

4. I'm of two minds on a potential Hillary testimony in front of this committee.

On one hand it would be funny if she told them to go to hell and not show up. On the other hand, she could show up raring to go and smack them down so hard that they wouldn't know what him them. Either way, I think that these perpetual investigations on Benghazi will ultimately backfire on Republicans.

[Initech]

5. Sure, let 'em. It will only come back to bite them in the ass.

Considering there were 8 embassy attacks under Bush and republicans voted to cut embassy security.

[libdem4life]

6. I'd buy a ticket and bring the popcorn.