The Benghazi Debacle Proves That the Obama Gang Should be Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

It was instructive watching Bob Woodward, a news hound who in another era sniffed out the Watergate scandal, talk to Sean Hannity last night about Obama's ghastly Benghazi antics. You could see that, on the one hand, ace reporter that he is, he felt compelled to admit that things do not add up. On the other, one could sense his obvious discomfort in having to talk about it, his reluctance to point fingers at a man who, despite a record of failure in every sphere, remains an object of media veneration.

Woodward urged folks not to rush to judgement because all the facts have yet to emerge (no thanks to a shockingly incurious media). But as Thomas Sowell (as quoted today by Salim Mansur) notes, "...[Y]ou don't need to eat a whole egg to know that it is rotten."

Indeed. And, despite the sulphuric fumes trickling out of the White House, the media, including "All the President's Men" Bobby, continue to evince a fraction of the interest in the story they would have had something so rank occurred on a Republican watch.

As always, Mark Steyn sums it up best. In response to the crucial question "why?," he writes:

Because to launch a military operation against an al-Qaida affiliate on the anniversary of 9/11 would have exposed the hollowness of their boast through convention week and the days thereafter – that Osama was dead, and al-Qaida was finished. And so Ty Woods, Glen Doherty, Sean Smith and Chris Stevens were left to die, and a decision taken to blame an entirely irrelevant video and, as Secretary Clinton threatened, "have that person arrested." And, in the weeks that followed, the government of the United States lied to its own citizens as thoroughly and energetically as any totalitarian state, complete with the midnight knock-on-the-door from not-so-secret policemen sent to haul the designated fall guy into custody. 

This goes far beyond the instinctive secretiveness to which even democratic governments are prone. The Obama administration created a wholly fictional storyline, and devoted its full resources to maintaining it. I understand why Mitt Romney chose not to pursue this line of argument in the final debate. The voters who will determine this election are those who voted for Obama four years ago and this time round either switch to the other fellow or sit on their hands. In electoral terms, it's probably prudent of Mitt not to rub their faces in their 2008 votes. Nevertheless, when the president and other prominent officials stand by as four Americans die and then abuse their sacrifice as contemptuously as this administration did, decency requires that they be voted out of office as an act of urgent political hygiene.

To put it in terms of Broadway show tunes, which is more than appropos given Steyn's expertise in and love of the genre, it's time for Americans to pull a Nellie: to wash that man right out of their hair and send him on his way.