Let's do the time warp again
by digby
This polling on Benghazi is hilarious:
While voters overall may think Congress' focus should be elsewhere there's no doubt about how mad Republicans are about Benghazi. 41% say they consider this to be the biggest political scandal in American history to only 43% who disagree with that sentiment. Only 10% of Democrats and 20% of independents share that feeling. Republicans think by a 74/19 margin than Benghazi is a worse political scandal than Watergate, by a 74/12 margin that it's worse than Teapot Dome, and by a 70/20 margin that it's worse than Iran Contra.
And yet:
One interesting thing about the voters who think Benghazi is the biggest political scandal in American history is that 39% of them don't actually know where it is. 10% think it's in Egypt, 9% in Iran, 6% in Cuba, 5% in Syria, 4% in Iraq, and 1% each in North Korea and Liberia with 4% not willing to venture a guess.
You know why Benghazi has taken off as a patented GOP scandal? It's a good name. Nobody knows what it means, where it is or what happened. But, by God, it's memorable.
And it's got all the right elements, even a Clinton, to take us back to those glory years of the 1990s:
At any rate what we're finding about last week's Benghazi focus so far is that Republicans couldn't be much madder about it, voters overall think Congress should be focused on other key issues, and Hillary Clinton's poll numbers aren't declining on account of it.
Sounds pretty typical for a 90s era scandal.
God, I feel so young. Anyone care for a little Alanis and Seinfeld fest?
Update: Hahahaha. We have our first shooting-watermelons-in-the-backyard moment:
Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the GOP's Benghazi Oversight Committee, has a new theory:
They began being attacked, and were attacked for more than seven hours and we're to believe that no response could even be started that could have helped them seven hours later? Quite frankly, you can take off from Washington, DC on a commercial flight and practically be in Benghazi by the end of seven hours. You certainly can take off from areas in the Mediterranean and bring at least some support in less than seven hours.
As Jed Lewison points out, there is nobody on the planet who believes the marines could have gotten there in time, including George W. Bush's (and Obama's) former secretary of defense who called it a "cartoon fantasy."
But that's not what's Dan Burton-esque about this:
Yeah, it'd take 27 hours to fly commercial on the shortest available commercial flight from Washington to Benghazi, not seven.
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