Throughout today's discussions about Benghazi, one important thing was very apparent, while another important thing was almost completely glossed over.
The important but apparent thing is that for Democrats, Benghazi was a tragedy that needs to be explored and any mistakes and system shortcomings need to be pointed out and resolved, if possible. For the GOP Tea Party, Benghazi was a tragedy that needs to be blamed on the President and all Democrats in his administration. Future steps that might lessen the chance for such a tragedy happening again? Nope, don't care about that.
But the important fact that wasn't so apparent is that while the GOP members of House Committee railed against the alleged security flaws of the administration, they forgot to mention that in the last two years, the GOP has cut nearly $500 million dollars from the State Department security budget. I personally think it would have been nice for one of the people to simply ask the members why they decided to cut that amount from the security budget at State.
It takes a lot of guts for the GOP House members to cut funds from the State Department security budget and then blame the President when there's a security problem at State. Of course, it takes a lack of brains and hearts, too. But the GOP seems to have an abundance of people who have that exact set of qualities, don't they?
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