Oct 23^rd

The right wing columnists haven’t yet responded to the eleven hour inquisition of Secretary Clinton; they will soon. Republicans on the committee took full advantage of their few minutes of fame. I saw some of the theatrics and for amateurs they were impressive. Not all performances required props but here are two that did: Congressman Peter Roskam of Illinois held up several sheets of paper which, once he got the camera’s attention, he very carefully tore in half. This, he claimed, was what Secretary Clinton did to the requests for assistance from her ambassador. Hillary then told him that she never received any such requests; oh pshaw!

Then there was another budding thespian, Congresswoman Susan Brooks of Indiana. This woman, once the camera was on her, put on the desk in front of her two stacks of what appeared to be letters, one about ten times as high as the other. Then she claimed that the higher stack represented the Clinton emails from 2011 and the smaller stack represented the emails from 2012. This, she claimed, showed Secretary Clinton’s dwindling interest in the Benghazi affair. Clinton then, very calmly, informed the Congresswoman that she did not conduct the majority of the State Department’s business by email; again oh pshaw!

Those were the primary theatrical performances requiring props; there were other bits of curtain chewing as well, although describing them without visual aids would be a waste of time. Once the eleven hour marathon was over and Chairman Gowdy had apparently given up trying to make the Secretary grovel and beg for mercy, I watched as her admirers gathered round to congratulate her on her performance. She was smiling and apparently still as full of energy as she had been in the beginning at ten o’clock, the beginning of the eleven hour ordeal

Of course these were Hilary supporters; what about the Hilary detractors? I just turned to Fox News and there was Megyn Kelly and Megyn was one furious woman! She was squirming around in her chair and yelling “liar” in a great imitation of Bouncy Bouncy Limbaugh. Other Fox News employees subsequently joined the chorus. They had even recruited a relative of one of those killed in the Benghazi attack who blamed Clinton and added to the credibility of their opinions.

Judge Napolitano, a regular senior contributor at Fox News and a fervent libertarian (except for the fact that he is also fervently pro-life) tells us that as a result of her testimony the Department of Justice now has all the evidence it needs to indict Hillary Clinton. But wait! Congressman Mo Brooks form Alabama claims that if Hillary is elected she will be impeached “on day one.” Everyone seems to be in a hurry these days; don’t these politicians want to leave anything for day two or day three?  Maybe if they can do it all on day one that will mean more time for golf.